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March 30th, 2005, 06:53 PM
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Re: OT - Computer Issues (aka \"blue screen of deat
OH. What chipset is the Motherboard? It's a SOYO with an Intel845 chipset.
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March 30th, 2005, 07:07 PM
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Re: OT - Computer Issues (aka \"blue screen of deat
OK thats good, there were some VIA/Nvidia errors with sim ID's
Well then, First I would pull some memory, about 256meg would be a good place to start. 98 Has issues with 512 or more. Then I would boot to safe mode and use MSconfig to back everything out and start adding one setting at a time until I got the error again.
If it BS's in safe mode then its hardware most likly. Try reseating the vid card and the memory and run a VOM past the power supply.
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March 30th, 2005, 07:24 PM
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Your sig banner disturbs me T. I suppose that's the point.
I have no prob's in Safemode. (Aside from having to hot-key around cuz my USB mouse doesn't work). BTW it's not 98, it's Me. I haven't heard about problems with large RAM with it.
Are you suggesting pulling almost everything out of the Startup Programs and then reboot add one reboot add one reboot add one reboot, etc?  ...ugh. I guess I will if I have to.
By "run a VOM past the power supply" do you mean Volt/Ohm meter? Like insufficient voltage?
I'll reseat the Matrox and the memory.
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Re: OT - Computer Issues (aka \"blue screen of deat
Insufficient voltage is the nice problem.
Too much voltage is the scary problem 
I lost a lot of hardware a few years ago because of 13v instead of 12v
Your BIOS probably has some voltage and temperature readouts to look at.
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Re: OT - Computer Issues (aka \"blue screen of deat
SOYO Hardware Monitor_tm:
Temperatures: Chassis=88F, CPU=112F
Fan Speed = 2680rpm
Voltages: VCore=1.47v, +12V=12.09v, +3.3V=3.31v, +5V=5.1v, AGP=1.5v, DRAM=2.44v
Seems peachy.
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Re: OT - Computer Issues (aka \"blue screen of deat
Yep they look ok
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Re: OT - Computer Issues (aka \"blue screen of deat
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TurinTurambar said:
Your sig banner disturbs me T. I suppose that's the point.
I have no prob's in Safemode. (Aside from having to hot-key around cuz my USB mouse doesn't work). BTW it's not 98, it's Me. I haven't heard about problems with large RAM with it.
Are you suggesting pulling almost everything out of the Startup Programs and then reboot add one reboot add one reboot add one reboot, etc? ...ugh. I guess I will if I have to.
By "run a VOM past the power supply" do you mean Volt/Ohm meter? Like insufficient voltage?
I'll reseat the Matrox and the memory.
Turin (hey man, thx for the time)
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That is the intent. But it does not do as much as you might first think. I tend to use it to catch comcast rolling my IP addy over.
ME does have the memory addressing issues that all 98 systems have.
Yes, I do see a lot of diagnostic reboots in your future.
And yes about the VOM. Actually a $5 volt meter would work just fine. I would be looking for a low 3.3 rail or AC leakage. But the 5 and 12+ could be at fault to.
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