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Article #213Re: AMD athalon & windows 98 problems!
From: Andrew W
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 23:26
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 23:26
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I had two customers with this problem and I fixed it by reducing the CPU clock speed by 2 notches on the m/board (dip switches). If someone else can suggest a more desirable solution then good. Maybe getting a larger power supply like someone else suggested. Andrew. -- "ACIDREIGN" <Mikeprent@clara.co.uk> wrote in message news:lCtC4.2795$Eq.48563@nnrp4.clara.net... > I just installed a AMD Athalon (700mhz) with 128mb (100mhz) Ram on a Asus > K7M Motherboard. I get serious problems in the first edition of windows 98. > I keep getting Invalid Page faults in explorer. I downloaded the Windows > customer service pack from windowsupdate and this seems to have partially > solved the problem. I cannot install office 2000 or corel 7 as they both > crash during install with the invalid page fault! Several games also crash > out during play with invalid page faults. I have not overclocked the chip > and the chips isnt overheating. I have downloaded all of the windows updates > to try and fix this. I have reinstalled windows and this has not fixed the > problem. Bios settings have been put on both optimal and fail safe! > > Hardware: > > ATI Xpert@play 8mb > Creative Voodoo2 (12mb) > Creative 1024 Live! > 32x CDrom > 4,2,24 CDRW > 8.4gb and 4.3gb Hard disk (UDMA33) > (additional isa parrellel port is also installed) > > > Thank you for your help! > > > Please reply to Mikeprent@apexmail.com > > >
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