boot up problems

[Guest_imported]

I have an ECS k7s5a mainboard and 1.3 gig Athlon T-bird. When it boot sup windows gives me the following "Windows preotection error. You must restart your computer. System halted". The onlyw ay to get windows to boot is to choose a step by step confirmation bootup. I have reinstalled windows 3 times now. Same problem each time. the operating system is winme. Win2k was on it b4 the mainboard and cpu upgrade. And i got a protection error so i formated . now I'm using winme cause i cannot find my win2k disk. I have the onboard sound disabled as well as midi and game ports. I am using an sb live 5.1 x-gamer. My video card is a riva tnt 16 meg pci. I also have a usb ms optical mouse. I have tried to underclock the ram and system bus to 100/100. I get worse erros. A whole bunch of weird numbers and vxd errors at boot up when i underclock. I checked my sdram (pc133) with Memtest and the ram passed withought a glitch. ANy ideas as to what may be going on?

 

[Niclov]

How much RAM are you using? I know similar problems arise with 95/98 when Windows can't support the amount of RAM you have, 98 supports about 300...312MB if I remember correctly. I thought ME extended it considerably, but I could be wrong. If it's split over two(or more) sticks, try removing one and running with less RAM.

Hope this Helps,
Nick

 

[Guest_imported]

i have 2 128 sticks, i have ran up to 512 before with no problems on the other board

 

[paparazi]

Don't ask me why but put DDR memory in it and it will be fine!
My local PC vendor uses between 5-15 of these ECS boards a day in there machines and if ever there is a problem it is a machine using SDram and almost always cured when DDR ram is fitted. Martin Vote if you found this post helpful please!!

 

[trouble1]

I had the same aggravating problem, the solution to which, in the end, turned out to be a fresh video driver file reinstalled over a corrupted version of same. The corrupt file was on the OEM CD so reformatting couldn't resolve the problem. Just a longshot possibility for your consideration.

 

[Guest_imported]

interesting, i just used the windows video drivers, maybe i should installt eh tnt detonator 4 pack

 

[Guest_imported]

i just checked the revision number on the mainboard, its 3.1, so i "should" have the problem free version......In many other posts on this web site ppl have said to upgrade to revision 3.1

 

[Guest_imported]

problem solved, i upgraded to win2k