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I have to agree with this. RAM problems with my K7M and my brother in laws. It's
a good place to start.

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"GanGrene" <GanGrene@nothere.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:43:46 -0000, "ACIDREIGN"
> <Mikeprent@clara.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >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!
>
> Replace the ram.
>
> I've got a K7M and it's EXTREMELY fussy about the ram it'll work with.
>
> If you get page faults or regsrv errors during a clean install of
> 98se, the ram is suspect, because during the install it'll use all of
> the 128 megs.  Borrow a copy of 98se from a friend to test it. It's a
> good way to see if it'll work with your board :-)
>
> After that, test it in the quake 3 demo with alot of the fancy
> settings.  Get it going for an hour or two.  Even if just in spectator
> mode. If it's giving you errors (page faults, unknown error etc),
> replace the ram or change the ram timings..  specifically the cas
> latency.
>
> Here's an interesting tid-bit.
>
> Had my system for about a year and bought a new 128 meg stick and
> plopped it in with the other.  It started giving me errors in q3.
> I slowed down latency and it seemed fine.
> I got a Gforce 2 gts about 3 weeks later.
> Started getting crashes again.
> Then 1 day my ram count was wrong on boot-up.
> Took out the new stick and left in my original ram and it ran fine.
> Put the "new" one in alone and nothing.  No boot, no post, nothing.
> So i took it back to where i bought it.
> They tested it.  It worked fine on their system (dunno what board or
> cpu).  So they gave me another new one and it's worked without a hitch
> since.
>
> So, as you can see the K7M can be REALLY fussy.  :-)
>
> And asus has a good reputation ?!?
>
> Later,
> GanGrene