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kony wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 16:07:20 -0600, Bill Barker
> <barker@fnal.gov> wrote:
>
>
>>Please help!
>>
>>I posted this last week to a coupla dozen newsgroups, but never saw
>>my original
>>message pop up, so I'm trying again.
>>
>>
>>I have an ASUS P5A-B mobo with the latest BIOS installed (1105).
>>It has an AMD-K6-2/500AFX processor. All mobo jumpers are correct for
>>this CPU.
>>It's maxed on memory (768Mb).
>>I put in an old WD 20Gb HD & installed Win98SE.
>>
>>It intermittently locks up (must power cycle to clear).
>>When I shutdown, it either:
>> 1) hangs at "Windows 98 is shutting down" screen; or
>> 2) reboots.
>>
>>Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Bill Barker
>
>
>
> The board is pretty old now, the capacitors might be dying
> of (ordinary) aging. Examine them for
> vented/swelling/residue/etc, though at that age they could
> be doing poorly with no visable signs of a problem.
>
> Having maxed out the memory could be a problem too, that's a
> lot of memory to expect a socket 7 board to handle
> regardless of what the chipset "officially" supports. Does
> it even cache more than 512MB? I thought it didn't but by
> now my memory of this is fuzzy.
You're probably remembering that the motherboard cache is 512K but the
amount of RAM it can cache is 128 MB, max.
http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Reviews/MBs/Asus/p5a-b.htm
> Hanging at the Win98 shutdown could be a lot of things, bad
> device drivers or apps not closing, power management
> problems... There is a shutdown patch for win98 (still?)
> available from Microsoft, you might try that if you haven't.
>
> Reboots are more often a power-related problem or "maybe"
> overheating... check that the fans are all working. Take
> power supply voltages with a multimeter. If you've a spare
> power supply you might try it. Those boards were also
> pretty picky about video cards, if you have a TNT/TNT2
> (especially) you might have problems or other similar
> cards... often during that era it was advised to use Voodoo2
> cards due to the fact that they behave as a
> PCI-card-in-an-AGP-slot. If you have another video card,
> especially a PCI card, you might try it.
>
> Try removing 2 of the memory modules, underclock it to 66MHz
> FSB (temporarily) and see if the problem(s) persist. That
> will reduce or eliminate all but the windows
> OS/drivers/apps, among the things I mentioned.
>
> What's changed prior to onset of these problems?
> Had the machine been working ok regularly or just out of
> storage or "new" build or ???
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