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Bretton30
03-27-2001, 10:28 AM
I've recently upgraded my computer. I had a DFI mb that was supposed to be able to handle a 133 fsb so I went out and bought a new PIII 866 and a 128 dimm of pc133. Brought it home put it in and got nothing but system registry errors. So I took the memory back and got a new one. Same thing. So I took the memory back again and had them run it in one of their machines, ran like a champ. So great, new motherboard. New boards bios is only 4 months old so everything should be up to date. hmmm. Now on a repartitioned, reformatted hard drive, with a clean install of Win 98. After I install a driver the computer reboots and gets to the point where the icons should be popping up on the screen and hangs. No particular driver in any particular order causes this. Once I had all my drivers installed/rebooted, and went to install Office 2000 and it hung on the reboot. I've had it to the point where I just installed my modem driver which does not require a reboot and I went to the Microsoft site and downloaded Win 98 service pack and installed. Guess what,,hung on reboot.
A ctl-alt-delete tells me the system is busy or unstable,,no duh. I've been fighting this thing for a week now and would love any help. Thanks in advance.

Brett

Randy_tx
03-27-2001, 11:10 AM
I think it might be time to go into Bios and see what the settings are. I would try in this order:
1. Set the CAS latency to 3
2. Try setting ALL pages in BIOS to "Default" settings...tweek later
Let us know what happens at Default settings of bios and we can go from there.

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Paleo Pete
03-28-2001, 10:48 AM
I agree, another thing to look for might be a Fail Safe BIOS setting, which loads default BIOS settings that are supposed to allow the computer to boot and run no matter what, unless of course you have a bad hard drive, virus, etc. Those don't seem to be likely. Or performance defaults. That would set basic defaults, but with system optimization in mind.

You also might try setting memory to 100MHz instead of 133MHz. Sometimes it runs better. Speed setting of 70ns instead of 60ns might also work, might be worth a try.

Yeah, I'm groping, but I can't think of much else...never heard of driver installation causing lockups...but I guess stranger things have been known to happen...



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