- Joined
- Feb 24, 2001
- Location
- Iowa City, Iowa
Hi All
Heres the scoop about a month ago i was upgrading my duron 800mhz to a t-bird 1200mhz. it posted saying the cpu was 900mhz and the cpu speed was wrong and that i had to change. went to the bios put it at 1200mhz, save and exit. SMOKE. it never booted again. even the power supply fan wouldnt go. I took it to a repair shop and they gave me a new M/B and power supply (using my old duron now) and tried to charge me 944.00 for labor! Any way got it home formatted the drive re-install 98se windows protection error. The tech at the computer place said if this happened that the hard drive was bad. RMA'd the hard drive got the new one(which was twice the size of the old one thanks Fujitsu!) formated installed windows installed mother board drivers restart windows protection error! I formatted the drive again installed windows and this time installed every driver I could on the system ran system file checker a couple times and restarted. It booted fine restarted 4 times and everything seemed to work. Then i noticed that my vid card was still standerd pci graphics card, so I hooked it up with the right driver restarted windows, and another damn error. I tried killing all parts of the driver i could find, msconfig etc. Now when i restart i get a while initializing device IOS windows couldnt start or something to that effect, or a protection error, or a black screen right into windows and freeze, or a restart right into windows. some of these were also happing before I installed the driver but I cant remember whick ones. Any help would be appreciated!
system specs:
DFI AM75-EC
Integrated 8-32mb S3 video
Integrated sound and lan
Duron 800mhz
Windows 98se
Fujitsu 20gb HDD
DVD10x
Heres the scoop about a month ago i was upgrading my duron 800mhz to a t-bird 1200mhz. it posted saying the cpu was 900mhz and the cpu speed was wrong and that i had to change. went to the bios put it at 1200mhz, save and exit. SMOKE. it never booted again. even the power supply fan wouldnt go. I took it to a repair shop and they gave me a new M/B and power supply (using my old duron now) and tried to charge me 944.00 for labor! Any way got it home formatted the drive re-install 98se windows protection error. The tech at the computer place said if this happened that the hard drive was bad. RMA'd the hard drive got the new one(which was twice the size of the old one thanks Fujitsu!) formated installed windows installed mother board drivers restart windows protection error! I formatted the drive again installed windows and this time installed every driver I could on the system ran system file checker a couple times and restarted. It booted fine restarted 4 times and everything seemed to work. Then i noticed that my vid card was still standerd pci graphics card, so I hooked it up with the right driver restarted windows, and another damn error. I tried killing all parts of the driver i could find, msconfig etc. Now when i restart i get a while initializing device IOS windows couldnt start or something to that effect, or a protection error, or a black screen right into windows and freeze, or a restart right into windows. some of these were also happing before I installed the driver but I cant remember whick ones. Any help would be appreciated!
system specs:
DFI AM75-EC
Integrated 8-32mb S3 video
Integrated sound and lan
Duron 800mhz
Windows 98se
Fujitsu 20gb HDD
DVD10x