Incompatibility Issue

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I am currently builing a computer. All good stuff. Gigabyte GA-7DXR board with AMD 761+686B AGPset (w/ onboard soundblaster audio), 2 Maxtor UDMA 7200 rpm hard drives (1=20GB, 1=40GB), 16X DVD, 16X10X40 CDRW, 1.4 T-bird Athlon CPU, 400w case, 2X 512K PC2100 266 DDR Micro ram sticks, Radeon 64mb DDR graphis card, Windows 98SE and fans galore. My problem is when I install the drivers for the graphics card, the system crashes with the blue screen of death. In troubleshooting the system I've found one temporary remedy. When I remove one of the sticks of ram (back to 512K) everything works great. The motherboard should support up to 3GB ram. Both the ram on board and on the graphic card are DDR. I've tried a different card (32mb Nvidia GeForce2 MX-200 w/ SDR ram). As soon as I installed the driver, I get the same problem. It will run fine on both sticks of ram and bare minimum windows driver graphics (16 color-640X480). I even tried Windows Me with no effect. It seems like I have a memory conflict. I have contacted Gigabyte, Micron-Crucial, Nvidia, Radeon, and several friends and they all scratch their heads at this one. I am thinking about unplugging each piece of hardware to see if that fixes the problem. I could really use some help here. I need the ram and graphis for the work I do. Thanks... Karlton Criswell

 

[Crashman]

Send me the thing and I'll diagnose/fix it for you for $50 plus parts (if needed).

Back to you Tom...

 

[khha4113]

There is a known problem in Win98 with more than 512MB RAM installed. Search <A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/directory" target="_new"><b><font color=red>Microsoft Support</A></b></font color=red>
<b><A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q253912" target="_new">http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q253912</A></b>

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