KT-600A Motherboard...trouble installing drivers

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I need help on the ECS KT600-A motherboard drivers that are include
on the CD that comes with the mainboard. The problem is that when
insert the CD, the CD spins and the harddrive winds itself up as i
it will install something, but nothing happens and I usually have t
restart the computer manually. (pressing the reset button on m
tower

I was thinking it might be the CD-ROM because the CDs for Windows XP
a video card I have, and an installation file for WinZIP (also on
CD) will not complete

I need help on my first-built computer
 
noizyme said:
I need help on the ECS KT600-A motherboard drivers that are included
on the CD that comes with the mainboard. The problem is that when I
insert the CD, the CD spins and the harddrive winds itself up as if
it will install something, but nothing happens and I usually have to
restart the computer manually. (pressing the reset button on my
tower)

I was thinking it might be the CD-ROM because the CDs for Windows XP,
a video card I have, and an installation file for WinZIP (also on a
CD) will not complete.

I need help on my first-built computer!
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Download the Via 4-in-1 drivers. THat way not only can you install them
but you'll have the latest versions too.

http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=2


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Conor

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music.
 
noizyme said:
I need help on the ECS KT600-A motherboard drivers that are included
on the CD that comes with the mainboard. The problem is that when I
insert the CD, the CD spins and the harddrive winds itself up as if
it will install something, but nothing happens and I usually have to
restart the computer manually. (pressing the reset button on my
tower)

I was thinking it might be the CD-ROM because the CDs for Windows XP,
a video card I have, and an installation file for WinZIP (also on a
CD) will not complete.

I need help on my first-built computer!
Click to expand...

Dear Noizyme

From your (several) posts I get the feeling you are trying to install
Windows 98 on a PC with a KT600A motherboard.
Am I right?
If so you may find driver support for 98 on this motherboard is less than
perfect.
In fact 98 driver support for most new motherboards is skimply to say the
least.

The firm that supplies white box PC's to me uses these boards and they have
proven to be very reliable with XP.
We haven't tried Win 98 because of the bad experience we had trying to get
Win98 to run on some Asus boards 2 years ago.
Despite considerable efforts we could not get the 98 drivers to install
correctly even after bios updates etc.
Put 2000 or XP on them and they ran fine.

I guess what I am saying to you is 'forget 98' go buy a copy of XP and it
should just all fall into place.
If you go back to the place you bought the motherboard from there is a good
chance you'll get an OEM copy of XP.
(read cheaper)

Cheers
Paul.
 
I have a 98SE partition on this machine with an ASROCK SIS board and an XP
2900+. Had to use Cacheman on the 98 partition as it has a boatload of RAM
in it.

More relevant to the OP, however, is this: I upgraded my kid's homework
system recently with the ASUS A7V600-X 600 set and 98SE runs like a top on
it. Had an issue briefly when the video card went tits up, but that's about
it.

Here's the Belarc on it:

Computer Profile Summary
Computer Name: ***delete*** (in WORKGROUP)
Profile Date: Monday, August 22, 2005 6:31:18 PM
Advisor Version: 6.1f
Windows Logon: ***delete***


Click here for Belarc's PC Management products, for large and small
companies.

Operating System System Model
Windows 98 SE (build 4.10.2222) No details available
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.67 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7V600-X
REV 1.xx
Bus Clock: 166 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software, Inc. ASUS A7V600-X ACPI BIOS Revision 1007 12/14/2004
Drives Memory Modules c,d
40.94 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
32.01 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

ATAPI 50X CDROM [CD-ROM drive]
Generic floppy disk drive (3.5")

Generic IDE hard disk drive (40.94 GB) -- drive 0, No SMART Driver 256
Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'DDR 1' has 256 MB
Slot 'DDR 2' is Empty
Slot 'DDR 3' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes

c: (on drive 0)13.55 GB6.46 GB free
d: (on drive 0)14.38 GB14.35 GB free
e: (on drive 0)13.01 GB11.21 GB free
Network Drives
None detected
Users Printers
No details available HP DeskJet 690C Series v11.0on LPT1:
Controllers Display
Standard Floppy Disk Controller
Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo)
VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Controller AG315P-64 [Display adapter]
PHILIPS 107T [Monitor] (15.2"vis, s/n BZ 47474826, September 2000)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
VIA Serial ATA RAID Controller
VIA PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller
VIA Tech 3038 PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
VIA Tech 3038 PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
VIA Tech 3038 PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
VIA Tech 3038 PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
 
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