This one is a little long, sorry in advance 🙂
Ok, here are the specs of my system:
AMD Athlon Classic 900 Mhz SlotA
Chaintech CT-7ATA with Via KX133 Chipset
Different BIOS flashes make no difference
ACPI DISABLED
64 MB PC100 RAM
UDMA/66 20 gig IBM Hard drive
ATI Radeon 32 Meg DDR – not sharing any IRQs
300 Watt Enlight PS
PCI Ethernet Card
Ok, here’s what?s going on: I do a clean install of Win98SE, it does the initial setup, with the Time Zone and setting up control panel, etc. Then it is finished with the setup and restarts.
When I can see the mouse pointer and the windows background, it reboots. It keeps doing this continuously. Keep in mind; this is BEFORE I have even loaded any extra drivers.
Here is EXACTLY what I do to get around it:
There is a REGISTRY value that Windows98 keeps adding:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum\HTREE\RESERVED\0
“Capabilities=14 00 00 00”
Pardon me if I didn’t get the syntax right, but that’s a Binary value. If I delete this value, I can start windows normally. BUT windows keeps adding this value!
Once I boot into windows, the system is stable and passes BCM diagnostics and SiSoft Sandra Diags also, so I am doubtful this is a hardware problem.
I have also installed ALL the latest drivers for EVERYTHING in this system. AND All the Win98 patches/updates there are that might help that I am aware of.
Any ideas? I know there are issues with this chipset and Win98se but I would like to find out if there is a work around.
Thanks!
