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by gareth.h (gareth

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I Have Recntly Built A New Computer.
1.2Ghz (266FSB) AMD TB, MSI K7T-Turbo Motherboard, 2x 512Mb (1.24Gb) PC133 RAM, 2x 40Gb (80Gb) IDE Hard Drive, 16x10x40 IDE CD-RW, 52x IDE CD-ROM, PCI Modem, PCI Network Card, USB Bommunications Are Enabled And A USB Port Is Used For The Mouse. The Mother Board Contains Onboard Sound. And I Have Recently Installed A 3D Prophet II MX 64MB AGP Card. I Have Both Windows 2000 Pro and Windows 98SE Installed. But With Windows 98 When I Install The Video Card Drivers I Recive A Windows Protection Error When I Restart. I Have UpdatedTo The Mother Boards VIA Chipset Drivers And Iv also Updated the Video Card Drivers. But The Problem Still Continues. I Have Tried Removing all Other Cards And Have Disabled Un-Needed Devices Such As Serial And Parallel Ports In The CMOS. I Have Also Swaped the CPU And RAM And Have Tryed DifferentHard Drives. Windows 2000 Pro Works Ok But I Need Windows 98SE To Work. How Can I Resolve The Problem?

Thanks,
Gareth Hauber.

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by dmiles

Giving the protection error would have been helpful,yet my guess is that you are expierencing a IRQ conflict that is causing this error
Startup the computer open the CMOS control panel and in the BIOS,on the configuration panel,select to Disable onboard graphics.
Reboot computer and then try reloading the video drivers.

by southietech

I have almost the same setup as you.
Msi K7T Turbo
Amd 1.2 266fsb
Geforce2 mx/400 64

First off, go get the drivers from Nvidia web site and put the on a cd.
2)fdisk
3)delete partition
4)add partition
5)reboot w/floppy
6)format c:/u
7)install win98 se
8)load video card drivers from cd you created.

by gareth.h (gareth

This Dint Help That Much But Least I could Get Into Windows After I Tryed.
Never Did Solve The Problem Just Upgraded Instead.

by robert_a_mocarski

Check the path statement(s) in your autoexec.bat file. If you have a path statement that does not have %path% in it, you will get that error because Windows doesn't know where to look for it's files. I'm not familiar with your particular video card,but if you had to run an executable to install the driver, it may have modified your path statement.

by elecstix

I had a problem like this and found that turning off the external cache in the bios enabled the system to boot but obviously operate slowly.

After much messing about I changed some of the memory parameters and was able to get the system to run normally with the external cache re-enabled.

You might like to try this approach. Good luck!

by oldchewie

Often when you get a Windows Protection Error, you will be able to work if you rename the file c:\windows\smartdrv.exe from the Command Prompt (boot Command Prompt Only).

I have had success with this several times.

Good luck!

by jaboy78

to tell you something. Win98se can only support ram until 512KB. If more than that many problems may occur.

To solve this problem. Go to yahoo.com and search for cacheman 4.1 software. This software will help you to solve the problems.

by gareth.h (gareth

When Refering To The RAM As 512Kb Were You Talking About The Cache? Or The Actual RAM? Never Had Any Problems With Win98se And Cache!?!
Never Did Solve The Problem Just Upgraded Instead.

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