What the hell is wrong here?

Frost

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Jan 26, 2001
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I dunno. I still have to go test this card in another pc, but it worked perfectly fine a few days back in Win2k. Heres the problem, I was running Win2k, but couldn't get my burner to work right, so now I'm running Win98 with room to install Win2k for a dual boot when I get around to it. Well now my Radeon 64meg ViVo causes Windows Protection errors. I get a windows protection error, then it says press any key. I do that and get some sort of stacks overflow problem. What the hell is that? I have formatted 4 times with fresh installs of WIn98SE all 4 times. I have also tried 3 different Radeon Driver versions. You think it could be the card? It only happens once I install the drivers for it. In safe mode, and without display drivers installed it gets to windows just fine. Also with this GF1 DDR I can play games and everything runs perfectly fine. Here is system specs:

Enlight 7237 mid-tower with 300watt sparkle
Abit KT7A-Raid with WW bios
T-bird 1.1ghz @ 9x133 (does same at default)
256 megs micron pc133
45gig IBM 75 GXP
5x DVD
8/4/32x plextor
SB Live! (tried without this and same problem)
nic
Radeon 64meg or 32meg GF1 DDR

 

skace

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Jan 23, 2001
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Thats what happened on the last win98 install I ever did. Completely fresh, everything perfect and windows didn't like it at all. That was the day I went to win2k. Well, actually I went to win2k after 3 win98 installs like that in a matter of 2 days. I'd say try to get your writer working in win2k.
 

Frost

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Jan 26, 2001
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4.26s I beleive. The problem with the writer is that it would crash in every program I have. Nero, plextor manager, easy cd creator, musicmatch jukebox, all kinds of stuff! :(
 

Krioni

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Feb 4, 2000
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That's your problem with your Win2K install... it's the VIA drivers.

You need to do one of two things.
1. Don't use the VIA drivers at all. Just use the default drivers that are installed by Win2K and be sure to install SP1 for Win2K

2. Try the NEW official VIA 4in1 drivers (version 4.29) they are available at Viahardware in the drivers section. NOTE People have had mixed reviews on the 4.29 drivers for Win2K. I personally just installed them an Abit KT7A w/ the WW BIOS and they worked like a charm in Win2K.

Good Luck!