Old mobo locks up intermittently and/or reboots on shutdown

[Bill Barker]

Please help!

I posted this last week to a coupla dozen newsgroups, but never saw
my original
message pop up, so I'm trying again.


I have an ASUS P5A-B mobo with the latest BIOS installed (1105).
It has an AMD-K6-2/500AFX processor. All mobo jumpers are correct for
this CPU.
It's maxed on memory (768Mb).
I put in an old WD 20Gb HD & installed Win98SE.

It intermittently locks up (must power cycle to clear).
When I shutdown, it either:
1) hangs at "Windows 98 is shutting down" screen; or
2) reboots.

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Bill Barker

 

[Groove]

Bill Barker said this...

It intermittently locks up (must power cycle to clear).
When I shutdown, it either:
1) hangs at "Windows 98 is shutting down" screen; or
2) reboots.

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!

Windows98 has problems with that much RAM. It really doesn't handle more
than (IIRC) 384Mb reliably.

http://computermemoryupgrade.mysuperpc.com/out_of_memory.shtml

Try doing the vcache fix and see if that helps.

 

[Bill Barker]

What is the vcache fix & where can I find it?
Bill
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[Groove]

Bill Barker said this...

What is the vcache fix & where can I find it?

It's detailed in that link I gave you..

Basically a simple change to the system.ini file
to add the following lines..

[vcache]
MaxFileCache=524288

I'm not 100% certain it'll work for you, but it's fixed similar probs for
me in the past so I think it's worth a try.