What a night...

[MR. SLiK]

Well my comp toally bit the bullet tongiht. It crahsed about 20 times today and I think my hard drive became bad. Because everytime Id restart it would start freezing in windows on boot. So I got so frustrated that I formatted my hard drive (I backed it up though). And then trying to install windows again it was freezing in DOS. So i ripped out my 16gig hard drive and made my 80 gig western digital the master. Win98 installed perfectly, and when I went to go install WiNXP professional, it freezes during the setup. So i said **** WinXP, setup my DSL and here I am now. On Win98SE with 16 colors on 640x480 res, with only my DSL setup. Wow is all I can say. I will see though if my school has Win2000 so I can check it out and install that. WinXP was great but now I hate it cause it just ****ed everytihng up.

[Nobody]

Why did you install 98 first ? You should have just tried XP on a clean drive.

[MR. SLiK]

Actually I did that. It froze in the setup.

[OUTLAWS DirtGod]

Nice avatar nob......

sorry to hear that hammer did a complete reinstall tonight and i had to reinstall of my exsisting yeteday XP problem......you can say it is a microsft prduct....LOL

[Slice]

What were you doing the first time it crashed today? Did you change anything?

[OUTLAWS DirtGod]

But that problem with xp could be your bios your cd-drive your memeory anything had the same problem on my daughters computer in july ended up puttin ME on it because win 98 would not find the network card drives you just gots to love windows

[Mr Clean]

DirtGod, that was one fantastic run-on sentence there....

[OUTLAWS DirtGod]

Ive got more if you what im not and english major im and engineer

[MR. SLiK]

[quote:cbd697f460="Slice"]What were you doing the first time it crashed today? Did you change anything?[/quote:cbd697f460]

It had always crashed like that ever since I upgraded my comp. But today (and even yesterday) it started to crash more often in my games, then it started crashing in windows, then DOS. I thought it was my video card (as you can see in the Hardware section) but I put in my old GF2 and set that up and it still froze.

[OUTLAWS DirtGod]

have you upgraded your memeory since the crashes startd?

[MR. SLiK]

Im still using the 384 Cruical micron 384 DDR ram I got with my other new stuff. I did get an error in my VIA drivers though. It said query registration failed! Contact with manaufacturer!! Even though I did update those as well.

[Slice]

Strange, sounds like a bios issue. Have you got the latest bios for your chipset?

[MR. SLiK]

I downloaded the latest drivers from the via website (the 4in1 or whatever) because when I first booted my new computer I got this error. I installed them and I stll was getting the same error but my comp still worked fine so I ignored it.

[OUTLAWS DirtGod]

sounds like you should not have installed the latest drivers are you having the same problem with 98 now any error messages

[OUTLAWS DirtGod]

and that be a 256 and 128 mem chips right?

[MR. SLiK]

Nope 98 is working fine. Its boots much faster to. I had a problem with WinXP where it took forever to boot for some reason. Happened with my 600 comp also.

[MR. SLiK]

[quote:07c088d912="Outlaw DirtGod"]and that be a 256 and 128 mem chips right?[/quote:07c088d912]

Yes. Also im copying my old stuff back right now.

[OUTLAWS DirtGod]

yep souds like xp and your bios did not mix......

[MR. SLiK]

[quote:cf9ad26a2b="Outlaw DirtGod"]yep souds like xp and your bios did not mix......[/quote:cf9ad26a2b]

Was it? Hmm...

[OUTLAWS DirtGod]

Yeah it usually lock up during the set-up if one your processer is not rated for you bios also.....BTW what you CPU speed

[MR. SLiK]

1733 mhz. Its an AMD XP 2100+

[OUTLAWS DirtGod]

did you install xp before or after you got this processer ?

[MR. SLiK]

Before

[OUTLAWS DirtGod]

k and what motherboard you got?

[MR. SLiK]

VIA KT266A |6P3D 8KHA+ W/A EPOX

[Slice]

Question, did the computer ever restart by itself?

[MR. SLiK]

Yep, 2 times. One time when I right clicked to exit my dsl gateway program (I thought I had someone attacking me) and once when I double clicked to reinstall the 30.82 drivers.

[MR. SLiK]

Btw that was both today

[Slice]

What size is your power supply? How many watts?

[MR. SLiK]

400 watts

[OUTLAWS DirtGod]

Well it looks like a bios issue......but to tell you the truth i think is those evil via drivers and chipsets.....i got a nforce board to avoid them entirely.....it says to load the latest via drivers to fix that problem you version 4.42 im sure you have done that....sorry but i think via is your problem...... :(

[Slice]

That should be sufficient. I had a similiar problem happen to me, and I asumed it was XP. My computer would continue to crash and restart itself. It was very random. Sometimes during boot up, sometimes 5 min in to a game. I finally figured out my chip was not getting enough juice. I bought a 450 watt power supply, it hasn't crashed since.