Upgrade Hell

[Now What]

I just upgraded a clients Pc to a Pentium 4 1.5gig Cpu, 2x 256 MB DDR's on a Gigabyte GA-8SIML Mainboard, I laso replcaed the old psu with a new intel approved one,

Im reinstalling his OS fresh, but when Windows 98 SE went into Windows mode, it comes up witha blue screen, and freezes.

Is there any patch that we need to run on windows, i know there was a patch for windows back when the amd k6's ran on a 100mhz board, but im a it out of touch on pc's (havent benn in the field for 6 months)

some one plz! help,

thanks

[Silverman]

Ran into this situation just a while ago. Same board/cpu/ram, turned out to be a problem with AGP/vidcard. Set bios for AGP first and all that, made sure Bios was set for defaults, still blue screen/freeze. Ended up replacing the vid card. All was well.

[Now What]

hmm yeah thing is this thing has onboard video and sound, and im using the onboard video, i guess ill have to try a agp or pci card instead...

[Silverman]

I never bothered with the on board video with it at all as never had any luck with SiS Vid other than an old PCChips socket7. Put a good video card in it and your troubles should disappear.

[Now What]

i tried the video card idea, no luck, - i did eventaully find the problem though, it was the dumbest thing - you'd think when an asian supplier says, "aahh dat is deedeeare wam is velly good quwality" you'd double check that but i was dumb enough to trust em, one of the ram dimms were faulty, thanks for your help anyhow!

[Froghead]

Bad windows installations are almost always caused by hardware. Either a hardware fault or incompatabily. Try installing Win98 with just one piece of Ram. If you have the same problem then try it with other piece by itself. Trying another video card is OK but it should work. If video is the problem and the motherboard is still under warranty then take it back where you got it and get it replaced or trade up to a GA81RX or Asus P4B266 or the like.

[Silverman]

I hate it when I order RAM and they send me WAM instead.

[freddy]

[quote]Originally posted by Silverman:
<strong>I hate it when I order RAM and they send me WAM instead.</strong><hr></blockquote>


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reminds me of the last time that I went to the chinnesse takaway ,

the woman behind the counter says "did you enjoy your takaway last night"

I said "yes it was nice and rubber,y"


she replies "ah thank you"

[Silverman]

[quote]Originally posted by freddy:
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?????????????????????????????

reminds me of the last time that I went to the chinnesse takaway ,

the woman behind the counter says "did you enjoy your takaway last night"

I said "yes it was nice and rubber,y"


she replies "ah thank you"</strong><hr></blockquote>

A buddy of mine is Hmong and invited my wife and myself over for authentic asian cuisine. As we sat down to the table as we had many times before I noticed something missing, the cat......