Hello Sam,
On Thursday 09 February 2006 19:24, Sam Franc wrote:
> Gaffer wrote:
> > Opps missed a bit, thinking faster than typing ! ;-)
> >
> > On Wednesday 08 February 2006 20:16, Gaffer wrote:
> >> Hi Sam,
> >>
> >>> At 05:50 PM 2/7/2006, Sam Franc wrote:
> >>>
> >>> It crashed about 90% through.
> >>> Error "Page fault in Explorer.exe at 015F:0040 etc."
> >>
> >> Get hold of "Memtest" memtest.org, and verify that your RAM is
> >> good first.
Did you do this ?
> >> Fdisk - Format the HDD.
> >
> > Make a directory on the HDD "win98" and copy the 98se cd "win98"
> > directory into it.
> >
> >> Boot from a bootable floppy. Preferably with the cd drivers on
> >> it.
> >>
> >> from the A:\ type "C:\win98\setup" and press enter.
> >>
> >> Follow the prompts.
> >>
> >> I suspect that you have bad ram or an iffy cd rom drive. Bad ram
> >> is favourite.
> >>
> >> Let us know how you get on.
>
> What does "Wrong NV chip revision for the resource mgr." mean.
I assume that you have an Nvidia graphics card, or a mainboard with an
Nvidia chipset. If its the latter, there may not be any W98 drivers
for it !
> Had got along in the installation of W98.
> The driver for the VGA card was wrong so tried to change it to match.
Again this sound like a chipset issue ! Normally win would just use a
generic VGA driver and you would have to install the correct driver for
the video card.
> Said to reboot for it to take effect.
> Did so and it tries to start and comes up with this message and
> freezes. Can not CAD even.
> Have to shut off the power to restart.
> Anyone have an idea besides formatting and starting over.
> Sam
What is the mainboard in this machine, graphics card and sound card ?
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