[RESOLVED] AMD K6III 400

I have a K6III 400 with Windows 98 1st edition, on a DFIK6BV3+ MB with 128megs SDRAM, Diamond Viper V770 32meg Video card. I have loaded the patches and drivers on the MB CD in the exact manner the manual states. My computer will lock up clicking on anything on the desktop, sometimes with VxD errors, sometimes with illigal operation messages, and sometimes a fatal execption blue screen. When I reboot, everything runs fine. I can even turn off the computer after the initial daily start and it doesn't lock up, it runs beautifully.
After about the fifth day, my tray icons just to the right of the start button dissapeared and never came back.I have the latest Diamond driver by Diamond's Update Wizard. I have a feeling that something is conflicting with DFI's VIA AGP VxD driver I loaded from the MB CD. Think I should switch to another brand MB, or video card? I haven't received a reply a reply from DFI or Diamond. Does anyone have a clue to what my problem is?

I'm not certain about your lockups, etc,maybe you just need to reinstall Windows. The icons you mentioned (right next to Start button) are shortcuts for Quick launching apps. Go to Windows\Applications\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch and look at what is there. If there are shortcuts present, with no display on the Taskbar, then you have a corrupted install. Try just running Setup again,and this may clear things up. If not, you'll have to do a clean install.
About Quick Launch: you can add shortcuts to this folder yourself and place some of your most used apps on the taskbar. You can also add another toolbar with more apps if you wish,although this will restrict room for display of your minimized apps. Good luck.

I have done 4 to 5 clean installs after formatting my hard drive. The same thing happens after each install. I do have 4 icons of my most used programs listed in the Quick Launch folder but no icons in the tray.

If I reinstall Win98 over Win98 will it not mess things up? I think I will try an ABit Mother Board if its compatable with the rest of my stuff.

I had this problem too. Formating once will not help. (Windows still remembered some settings)

I had to
format
remove partition
put back in partition
format both drives
reinstall windows

Now everything runs fine.

Thanks, Jman

I tried that too.
Even that doesn't wipe out everything on the hard drive from what I've read. What mother board and video card were you using?

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I am using a S3 virge video card and a Asus P5A motherboard (AMD 350@450)

I know this souds too basic to fix your problem, but in your bios do you have an IRQ assigned to video?

I have a

K63 450
Diamond MM Viper V770 Ultra
Running on a SOYO SY 5EMA+ V1.0

This combi works very very well
and is very fast

Reply to SomeOneW/OAUsername:

No I didn't assign an IRQ to video, I used default settings in bios setup.

Reply to Alros:

I haven't heard of Soyo. No computer resellers in the Atlanta area advertises this mobo.

I could never get my system to run stable so I switched to an Asus P5AB mobo. Now I am getting only VxD errors on a cold startup. No problems after a reboot. I finally got an answer from DFI tech support after I purchased the Asus board and they suspect sdram timing problems. They said to avoid use of Micron or Siemens brand memory (I have Siemens).
I am in the process of contacting Asus to see what brand memory they recommend with their board. I'm running out of money and patience.
The more I read about how to solve my problem it seems that faster machines are more sinsitive to timing problems with memory.

Extremely sensitive!!

I have a K6-III/450 w/ 256 MB 100mhz SDRAM, Voodoo3 3000, SB Live Value... _lots_ of problems. Sitting around web surfing and playing MP3's it's usually fine, but when running a lot of games it will give vxd errors, fatal exceptions (lots of 0e and 0d), often requiring that i restart the machine. Sometimes on reboot, it cycles back to the first bios screen after it starts loading Win98 (2nd ed). If I look at the bootlog.txt, I'll often see ndis2sup.vxd failed to load (MS knowledge base says this is no big deal), or fonts failing to load (MS also says no big deal to this. Sometimes if I re-extract those files from the .cab files it comes back up, sometimes it just seems to take a random number of restarts. From the reading I've done so far, it seems to point to either over heating, or bad RAM. My CPU temp is within spec, so I am at this point suspecting the RAM. (Have an Asus P5A mobo btw). Any suggestions? I have Samsung 8ns 128MB DIMMs. I bought the box over e-bay... I was looking at the Asus site tho, and If i didn't misread, it looks like the only 128MB PC100 DIMMs on the compatibility list for the P5A are NEC, no Samsung. I'd hate to shell out the $$ to get another 256MB of ram from another distro, but I'll gladly do it if it fixes my problems. (btw, it runs linux wonderfully)
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Thanks,

Adam


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[This message has been edited by Ballav (edited September 13, 1999).]

I had a TNT and TNT2. They both ran bad on my FIC Motherboard. I have a AMD 450 K-3 with TNT2. I switched to the Epox MVP3G2 and all those problems you are talking about went away. Gaulmont has a web page with all compatible motherboards for the TNT2 And the TNT. You will find there to be alot of boards that just aren't made for the TNT or TNT2. And alot that need certain patches. Go to there site and check it out.

I am not familiar with Gaulmont, I tried gaulmont.com with no results, I also tried gaulmont using Yahoo with no luck. If you don't mind could you post the full URL for me?

Thanks in advance!!

Any AMD K62 350 And above needs the 350 Patch applied to be successful. Underclock your CPU if it is above K62 350 and install windows 95/98 and after you first install you may get a "VMM32" or "Windows Protection error". Reboot into safe mode, apply the patch and continue with your install. If you get an "NT KERN32.dll error on the reboot
with processors above K62 400 with Windows 95, then uninstall the USB Support.

Good Luck!

Regards,
Steve

Has everyone tried installing the VGART driver from their chipset manufacturer?????? Especially with TNT based cards. They do not work well with socket 7 boards without patches installed. Install the patches on a fresh load of windows, then the video driver.

Hope this helps.