Melted Computer?

[Scottlem]

Ok i have been having various trouble with a pc. Its a time 200 mhz machine running windows 95. I have rebuilt this machine and reinstalled the drivers for the SiS 5598 intregrated video chip.

After receiving many errors and problem solving most of them i now think i have had a terminal meltdown. When i boot the machine now it comes up with this message.

While Initializing device IOS:
Error: An I/O subsytem driver failed to load.
either a file in the .\iosubsys subdirectory is corrupt, or the system is low on memory.

Thanks in advance for any help you may give.

Scott

 

[safraser]

Do you know if it is a amd k6-2 or lower processor you have
There is a confilict between these and win95. I got the same message after installing win95 on my machine. If it is your processor a patch can be downloaded from microsoft
but you may need to under clock your machine to install it.

 

[Scottlem]

I think it was due to the RAM. Strange though i still am getting a lot of crashes. FOund out the Cpu is a Cyrix 6/86 with a apparent clock speed of 151.9 mhz, i am going to check the jumpers on the MOBO later today

 

[swayda]

Hi. OK lets take this one step at a time. If you made no changes in the system hardware, and you were running fine before, then it can't be low memory. So the error message said something about a device driver in you iosubsys is corrupt. Boot your computer and press F8 as soon as you see "Loading Windows". This will take you to a menu. Choose Command prompt safe mode. This will prevent any graphics drivers from being loaded. Run scandisk from the command line. If it's clean change directory to (if I remember correctly) c:\windows\system\iosubsys. issue a dir command.
Note the file names. type
scandisk /fragment filename.ext
but substitute the real filename and extension for each file in the directory. Each one SHOULD return
All specified file(s) are contiguous
If you find one that isn't it's your culprit. You can try copying that file from another Windows 95 machine. In my experience that won't work. At least it never did for me, but hey, give it a try.
Myself, I'd just reinstall Windows. Don Swayser
swayser@optonline.net

 

[Howi]

Try taking the heatsink off and check that there are no labels on the chip, also check if there is any heatsink paste between heatsink and chip.
If NOT properly cooled these chips overheat very quickly as they are overclocked to start with.
Don't forget to put the heatsink back on!!! (with paste)

 

[Zorlod]

The patch for the K6-2's are only needed for the 350 400 and 450's and can be found at

http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/k623d/win95_updatek6.html

and that only applies to win95 users.

 

[Shad007]

I had a cyrix cpu at one stage (yeah yeah i know lol)..as a test I overclocked it (yeah yeah i know...)...the result was something very similar to what you have..they just DON'T like being clocked..try jumpering the board/cpu to a slightly slower spec and see how she goes...