sabyasachi basu

Hi,

I have just put together a PC with the following configuration:

1. U8668D-Z4 VIA P4 M266A + VT8235 Motherboard
2. ATI Radeon 7500 128MB Graphics card
3. 512 MB Simmtronics 266MHz DDR RAM
4. Seagate 80GB 7200 rpm Harddrive as Primary Master
5. LG CDW GCE-8523B as Secondary Master
6. LG DVD GDR-8161B as Secondary Slave

I have installed Windows 98 SE on a FAT32 partition of 10GB and Windows XP
on an NTFS partition of 15GB. There are two other FAT32 partitions.

Both 98 and XP keep freezing constantly, sometimes even minutes after
booting. I have installed the VIA 4-in-1 driver but things havent improved.
I removed the ATI Radeon card and tried to install the drivers for the
on-board AC-97 video; however the installation failed: 98 simply frooze
while running the setup from the VIA motherboard CD, whereas XP gave an
error to the effect the driver installation had failed.

Is the problem because of some hardware mismatch? If needed, I am willing to
swap my VIA motherboard for another one. Is there a better motherboard which
will take the ATI Radeon 7500 card? Or is there some other hardware/software
that I need to change?

Thanks in advance.
Sabya

sabyasachi basu

Oops, forgot to mention the processor.
Its a P4 1.8GHz

jad

set the bios to PNP OS installed to disable and reset config data to
enable-- reboot (with or without 7500 card) also make sure the primary video
is set to AGP or PCI whichever is correct AND disable OBvid if your not
using it

AND PLEASE CHILL ON THE CROSS POSTING!!!!!!!

franklin

Uhm... if he posted to all of them, he's watching all of them.

We have no idea what group you are replying from. You should trim your
answer down when replying to the OP.

jaster

Could be a weak psu what's your power supply unit specs? Are you using the
extra P4 power connection? Disconnect hd, cdw, dvd and see if the PC stays
on for awhile. Then add the hd and see if it's stable.

Did you disable the onboard video before installing the ATI and Windows?
Set your bios to optimal compatibility settings and then disable used IRQ's
like IRDA.. Then I'd start over by wiping out the W98 installation and
reinstall W98. You should be able to run both onboard and the ATI but it
might be a problem with your mb.

Is Simmtronics quality memory? Bad memory can be a problem and cause
freezes among other things.

philo

check all, especially the cpu