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Was not the Video Card or drivers!!!! I may have solved this problem. I had not used the BIOS Optimal Default Settings because if the Fail-Safe settings caused lockups, then Optimal would be worse! Wrong! Optimal Default Settings in BIOS have fixed the problem.   I am wondering WHICH ones...

My new soyo K7VTA, AMD 750 TB, 128 MB 133 MHz DIMM, 3Dfx system was hanging (freezing / Locking) and I thought it was Windows 98 or some software or drivers. Apparently it was the AWARD BIOS Settings. I may have solved this problem. I had not used the BIOS Optimal Default Settings because...

I may have solved this problem. I had not used the BIOS Optimal Default Settings because if the Fail-Safe settings caused lockups, then Optimal would be worse! Wrong! Optimal Default Settings in BIOS have fixed the problem. I am wondering which ones (or one?) did the trick ? Here is a...

I just put in a new soyo K7VTA mobo with AMD 750 Thunderbird and 128 MB RAM. Been having hangs or lockups. After MUCH investigation, found I can stop the hangs by putting graphics hardware acceleration (in System performance folder) to "none". After that, no hangs or lockups...

OK, Jim. Two things. 1. I have found out that I get no hangs (so far) if I set my video hardware acceleration setting to "none". Could I have bad vram? How does one check it? 2. Can you tell me in a few words what your fix is doing? Yes, I put the new mobo (cpu and...

More info I forgot to add: Just joined Tek-Tips ! CPU AMD 750 Thunderbird. Not overclocked! Motherboard is a Soyo K7VTA KT133 AGP/PCI VIA VT8363 chipset - latest BIOS update. POST checks mem as OK. I am trying setting the video hardware acceleration to none. How to check if vram is OK ?

I just obtained a new motherboard and CPU. Now I have hangs/freezes where nothing responds - not cursor or keyboard - zip! I have "end tasked" everything but Explorer and Systray. I have added Files=200, Buffers=80,0, Stacks=12,256 to Config.sys. I added MinSps=4 to [386Enh] and...