Ok, what the hell is this about??

Frost · Post by **Frost** » Sun Mar 11, 2001 6:38 pm

I formatted my whole hard-drive, and installed Win98. Left like 30gigs for Win2k, cuz I like both of them. Anyways, all I have installed is Win98SE. What happens is whenever I turn on my computer, I get a windows protection error, and it says press any key. I do that and then it goes on to tell me about some gay ass stacks overflow!?!?!?!! What the hell is that? It happens like every other time, and whenever I install my radeon drivers, or change the display settings and restart. Then after I get the protection error I restart, and get back to windows and its 640x480 16 colors, and it tells me theres something wrong with my display adapter settings... DUH! Why would I want my settings at 6x4 with sixteen colors???

What could be causing this crap?? I have reformatted and installed Win98 3 times now, and eventually it starts doing this again.

Even defaults in bios do this. I dunno what to do.

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Sun Mar 11, 2001 6:46 pm

Man I had the smae thing happen to me. I had a GeForce MX card and I just kept reinstalling the drivers then I would restart and it would say their is a problem with your video hardware. I never figured out what was wrong but I am stuborn and just kept reinstalling the drivers and it finally started working I bet I installed those drivers over 15 times before it started working.

CaterpillarAssassin · Sun Mar 11, 2001 10:06 pm

A Windows Protection error is usually attributed to u not installing the via drivers (u do have a via chipset right?) and if u dont then it may be a p/s issue with athlons. If u dont have at least a 300w P/S with an athlon over 750mhz (or a recommended 250w) then it will do this occaisonally. Probably not much help but hey i try

Also if u have the AMD chipset head on over to: <A HREF="http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/bin/">AMD's Website</A>

WeekendWarrior · Post by **WeekendWarrior** » Sun Mar 11, 2001 10:50 pm

Or could it be an overclocked cpu? Did you clock it to normal speed when you formatted and reinstalled?
I had trouble with win 98 se here too on an o'clocked machine.
I am running win me now...
Is the video card over

:ped as well?
just a shot

Frost · Post by **Frost** » Mon Mar 12, 2001 12:17 am

I did have the cpu at default, but not when installing Win98. Right now I have everything at defualts and just got done reinstalling. Just installed the via chipset drivers, and am now installing my ATI drivers... If I start getting windows protection errors again, I think I'll try installing my GF1 DDR I have sitting here

Frost · Post by **Frost** » Mon Mar 12, 2001 12:26 am

What a surprise. SAME

:pING ERROR!!! Bahhhhhhhhh!! I am going crazy here. I don't know what to

:ping do. This only happens after I install ATI drivers. These have worked great in the past. I have tried 3 different versions. Now I am running the GF1, going to install some dets here in a sec and if I get a protection error, I wouldn't be surprised if my computer never works again... Catch my drift?

***Update instead of adding a reply***

OH my god my eyes!! This GFs 2d quality SUX

I miss my radeon allready. WHY OH WHY would all of a sudden I get protection errors with the radeon but not with the GF??

[Edited by Frost on 03-12-2001 at 12:31 AM]

Underclocked · Post by **Underclocked** » Mon Mar 12, 2001 2:02 am

which motherboard are you using?

Frost · Post by **Frost** » Mon Mar 12, 2001 2:30 am

Abit KT7A-Raid

ginfest · Post by **ginfest** » Mon Mar 12, 2001 12:45 pm

This might help:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb ... 9/9/62.asp

Frost · Post by **Frost** » Mon Mar 12, 2001 1:30 pm

Thanx for the link. I checked it out, but it didn't really seem to help much. I think I'll just get my computer working perfect with this GeForce1 DDR then I'll try and switch to the Radeon when that would be the only problem

Kakarot · Post by **Kakarot** » Mon Mar 12, 2001 2:12 pm

You are installing the Radeon drivers that are for win98 and not win2k right?

Frost · Post by **Frost** » Mon Mar 12, 2001 2:35 pm

lol, yeah

Underclocked · Post by **Underclocked** » Mon Mar 12, 2001 3:38 pm

DX8a? Some of ATI's drivers require dx8.

Frost · Post by **Frost** » Mon Mar 12, 2001 3:44 pm

Haven't tried that yet!

I was going to install that... I think I'm going to get it right now and try the radeon again here in a lil while!