I also have an AMD T-Bird that randomly crashed.
I rectified my problem by fiddling around in the BIOS.. I changed a few settings according to a tweaking guide and it seemed to help.
http://www.3dspotlight.com/tweaks/bios/print.shtml
Also, I would check your video drivers and chipset drivers...
Alright..Didn't expect so many replies ;)
Specs:
T-bird 850
256 MB RAM
30 GIG HDD
nVidia GeForce II (just purchased)
250 Watt Power
Motorola internal 56k
Matsonic MS8127C mobo w/Via chipsets
Really, I don't have that much running on startup.. I even took out Norton during startup. The only...
I have Norton SystemWorks on my PC.
I've been noticing recently that everytime I get online, the CPU usage will shoot up to 100%, and the same goes for a graphics program (Final Fantasy 8).
I recently reinstalled my graphics drivers, and I downloaded a program called PCI List from...
Recently I've been having a problem (as some of you know) with my system randomly freezing.
I noticed in the BIOS that my DRAM Clock setting was at PC100, when I know that I've got a PC133 stick in place.
Could that be a problem in terms of whether the system would freeze or not?
Ok, HDD is partitioned.
Still, though, when I boot up into Windows, the Current Drive Letter Assignment option is greyed.
Do I need a disk for this HDD?.. Should I load Windows onto it?
I was thinking about getting another one.. but still, the problem shouldn't be there to begin with.
Regardless of what kinda video card you've got, configuration still can be made in order to fix the problem.
Just taking it from an analytical point of view.
Let me step back for a moment here and explain that my Primary is hooked up to my DVD-ROM.
Is that an issue? I read somewhere that it could be.
However,
When running fdisk, I can see that there are no partitions on the secondary. I bought it with no OS on it, it is completely clean.
I'll...
As we all know, Microsoft has already posted updates on what to do when your system goes into Standby and it hangs.
However, does anybody have any further information?
I'm wondering if your system goes into Standby, hangs, you restart.. and shut off the Standby feature in Power Management...
I also have almost the exact same problem with my system.
I am running an AMD T-bird 850 in Win 98 SE.
ATI AGP Rage 128 Xpert 2000 Video
MS8127C Matsonic board (VIA Apollo Kt133 chipsets)
Motorola 56k
VIA Sound card on board
128 MB RAM
30 GIG HDD
I recently tried calling ATI numerous times for...
Hi :)
I recently tried installing a second HDD into my system.
I put it in ok..made sure my primary was the primary, and not the slave.. and everything seemed ok.. no errors.
However, when I boot into Windows 98 SE, I try to work the drive selection on my second HDD in my Display Manager...
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