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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5757)	1/31/1999 7:39:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Win 98/Fat32 can handle a 17gig partition? Or did I misunderstand. As for your lockups, it reminds me of two similar things: 1) my daughter's (now dead) pc, an AMD 100mhz 486 clone. Would only boot Win 95 the way you say - step through the boot confirming each entry. It was a timing problem, but the only way I could ever solve it was to knock it back to 66mhz (and that AMD was a dog at 66mhz, too). 2) My current Tyan mobo has never been able to boot Win 95 though I've never had trouble with NT. I have not taken time to investigate very far, as I don't need to run 95 on that PC. However, I had all the bios timings set at their most agressive, which was probably a mistake. I've since backed them off but still haven't got back to check into it. I actually changed its guts when I gave my wife's old pc to my daughter a couple of weeks ago, so it has STRANGE DISKS in it right now, owing to an unfriendly lightning bolt a few months back. I repaired NT, but didn't attempt to repair Win95. It's my primary domain controller, so I'd miss it if it were gone <gg>. Anyhow, the point is you may be outrunning the memory capability. CAS2 maybe, on CAS3 memory (or are you running 66mhz memory at 100mhz like Dave? <g> Sean will get you if you are <gg>), or some other bios timing setting. Not as much of that in these later chipsets. More likely, though, you need to up the voltage a trifle. Have you tried 2.1v? To heck with it, I'm going to watch the Superbowl. I'm not too interested, but there's a 6-pack in the fridge ...

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5757)	4/11/1999 8:20:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Video RAM cache..ABIT BH6..protection error..success!!..oops I mean failure:( I thought I had this one licked. Everytime I altered a video setting that required the obligatory boot I got an unable to write to ebios error message. I went through a home brew procedure of going to safe mode or to the command prompt or?? a couple of times before the machine would boot. I then encountered a similar problem when I shut down and restart in MS DOS mode..the CAD app would fail with an abnormal program error..almost every time..a couple of boots to safe mode and should would usually kick in. Then the machine stopped booting all together. It stopped with a SCSI error message. I pulled the Mylex (buslogic) card and the machine started booting again. I replaced it with an Adaptec card and the machine still booted. It was back to normal..normal is will not boot to DOS mode. And problems with video settings when booting to Win 95. With boots to NT (once the Mylex card was removed) she worked fine) Then SUCCESS!! I change Video RAM cache from disable to enable in the ABIT Award bios. Voila..no more problems booting to MS DOS mode and no more video errors. Everything seems to work..even contemplating putting the Mylex card back in... So I am half way through a success post...I decide to boot to bios to make sure I have the correct bios terminology for the Video RAM cache culprit ...I exit bios without saving changes and BAAAAAM...nothing..NO BOOT..NO VIDEO AT ALL..no beeps. I change video cards...no go....I try my backup Celeron..no go... My bet is the ABIT BH6 is toast. I placed an order for an AOPEN BXC..five PCI and three DIMMS. Jumperless and battery less design. I did not do much research but I know Clarence did so I am ready to give it a try. I did not opt for the SCSI option as it was $125 more and I already have several SCSI cards kicking around. If all goes well UPS will deliver ONE AOPEN mobo sometime next week. Zeuspaul