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August 6, 2003 at 09:17 PM
msittech

defective hardware?

by msittech . Updated 22 years, 9 months ago

Processor: AMD Athlon 850 ? Slot A
Memory: 512mb (2 x 256mb 168 pin SDRAM NON-ECC)
MBoard: Soyo SY-K7VIA
Chipset: VIA KX-133
HDD: Maxtor 40gb 7200RPM ATA/100
Maxtor PCI Ultra ATA/100 IDE Card
350WATT power supply
OS: Win98 SE

Every time I booted my system, a warning window opened stating the there was an error

reading the system registry. Scanreg runs and tells me the registry has been repaired.

I reformatted & reinstalled windows & kept getting the same thing.
I replaced the hard drive, installed windows, updated my drivers and the loop is back again.
Someone posted this exact problem on Techrepublic.com. It turned out the problem was a

defective Pentium Chip.
So, I replaced my chip. I?m still having trouble. (after the system warms up)
I removed the memory chips & swapped them one at a time ? didn?t help.
When I looked for a registry backup file in sysbckup folder the only cab is rgbad.cab.
I found the rgbad.cab in the sysbckup folder and deleted it. Now it won?t go into windows

at all. I get a message that some .vxd file is missing and I need to re-install windows.
I started to reinstall windows and upon running scandisk, and there are lots of corrupted

files in my windows directory.

After I replaced the CPU. the problem didn?t happen until after the system had been on a

whole, so I imagine it could be an overheating problem, but my CPU fan and power supply fan

seem to be running fine.
WHAT NEXT???

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