My system= gigabyte 7dxrMBw/TB1200mhz--GeForce3 w/64mb--SoundBlaster live mp3-- 2 80Gb IBM's@ATA100 in raid stripe 0--Realtech 8139 chip10/100 lan to the internet thru a hub router cable modem-- ohh and 512mb crucial ram-40x12x48 liteon cdrw-pioneer16x dvd.
This system has been working like a dream with windows 98se. I tried a (10 to the sixth) number of times to install xp pro on this system but it will not work in raid that way.The promise chip's drivers do not work when I try to install it. That's a whole different issue, but it gives a hx of this machine.
My more recent seems to have begun a couple days ago.
When I tried to boot I got no monitor-- orange lite not green. Yet I'm sure the darn thing booted up to windows.
I poped the case open and jiggeled the video card-- all it's connections. It still booted with a blank monitor one more time. Then started booting normally????
Ok today!I turn on the computer but get an error message that a VKD device could not initialize due to a windows protection errorand to reboot. cntl alt del would not work. After hard bootiting it goes to setup, I f10 out of it and it comes back again to setup---- soooo I look around, but change nothing and f10 out of it again. this time I get the same error. X's3!!
I decide it must be my video card. I put in an old agpx2 4mb eontronics card I had on hand-- but got the same message? So I put myGF3 back in-- and who and behold IT BOOTS
Safemode first-- but I couldn't even do that before!!

It's seems compeletly normal now. That VKD device could have been VXD, but I'm pretty sure it said VKD Anyone know what this could be?