Tjitske
04-25-2001, 05:24 AM
I have a weird problem. I have not made any changes to my computer and suddenly the screen shows (with a few games) vertical lines. I couln't fix the problem so I installed win98 & win98SE again, installed drivers and problem still not fixed.
I format c: installed win98 & win98SE, tried first with basic drivers (didn't worked). Updated every thing, didn't work. I don't have any conflicts, my Bios is set properly, and I have run McAfee virusscanner. But the problems still expand. Sometimes I got memory problems. My sound is weird with speach, else it is wonderful. My system is sometimes very slow en my CD-rom drive is sometimes so slow that I get the error message "This isn't a valid win-32 application". And video is stil a problem with some games. My display isn't a problem at all, win98, word, my desktop. everything isn't a problem but games. A few went well (e.g. tomb raider 4 throug my videocard hardware render), and some went wrong (e.g. need for speed 3, halflive). Before i got these problems, I have had installed these games also, and it worked fine. So my system can handle the games.
The only thing I can see is wrong, is that directx with direct3d sometimes doesn't past the test. (that is with directx 5.0, 6.1, 7.0 and 8.0a the same problem, so it isn't directx) What can i do futher? I have checked for lose connections, were not there. What also strange was, that the setup of win98 was really fast (20 minutes) but the scandisk took about an hour.
My system is: 800Mhz AMD duron, MSI K7t pro 2-a, 30 Gb Maxtor HD, 32 speed CD-player, AGP TNT2 m64 32 mb videocard, a simple network card and directx 8.0a.
I format c: installed win98 & win98SE, tried first with basic drivers (didn't worked). Updated every thing, didn't work. I don't have any conflicts, my Bios is set properly, and I have run McAfee virusscanner. But the problems still expand. Sometimes I got memory problems. My sound is weird with speach, else it is wonderful. My system is sometimes very slow en my CD-rom drive is sometimes so slow that I get the error message "This isn't a valid win-32 application". And video is stil a problem with some games. My display isn't a problem at all, win98, word, my desktop. everything isn't a problem but games. A few went well (e.g. tomb raider 4 throug my videocard hardware render), and some went wrong (e.g. need for speed 3, halflive). Before i got these problems, I have had installed these games also, and it worked fine. So my system can handle the games.
The only thing I can see is wrong, is that directx with direct3d sometimes doesn't past the test. (that is with directx 5.0, 6.1, 7.0 and 8.0a the same problem, so it isn't directx) What can i do futher? I have checked for lose connections, were not there. What also strange was, that the setup of win98 was really fast (20 minutes) but the scandisk took about an hour.
My system is: 800Mhz AMD duron, MSI K7t pro 2-a, 30 Gb Maxtor HD, 32 speed CD-player, AGP TNT2 m64 32 mb videocard, a simple network card and directx 8.0a.