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Random Restarts With Old Dell
My friend has an older Dell Dimension v433c with 64MB and an ATI Rage
Pro AGP2X video card. The computer was working perfectly, until my friend decided to upgrade her AOL 4.0a to AOL 9.0 and add some antivirus protection. So I installed AOL 9.0 and AVG antivirus and ever since then the computer had problems booting up. The computer restarts (at random) right after the AVG dos virus checker runs, the screens stays black for a long time then restarts. After such a restart the computer goes into safe mode. The strange thing is that while in safe mode Win98 gives a warning the the video card settings are incorrect and we have to choose 16 colors and 640x480. Well after another reboot the computer will most of the time boot up correctly except that when it does, win98 will warn us that the vido adapter settings are incorrect and we can only choose 16 colors and 640x480. I have tried nearly everything, I have checked IRQ settings, checked BIOS settings for PNP, and IRQ. Also I have disabled any legacy support for sound cards, in addition I ran registry mechanic to repair any registry damage. The problem remains Any ideas?? Thank you John G. |
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The first thing to try is upgrading the video drivers with the latest ones from
ATI per their instructions. You can get them he https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...e&folderID=297 or if the link breaks: http://tinyurl.com/bchao or start here by clicking Drivers and Software at the top of page: http://www.ati.com/ -- Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User } Conflicts start where information lacks. http://basconotw.mvps.org/ Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 wrote in message ups.com... My friend has an older Dell Dimension v433c with 64MB and an ATI Rage Pro AGP2X video card. The computer was working perfectly, until my friend decided to upgrade her AOL 4.0a to AOL 9.0 and add some antivirus protection. So I installed AOL 9.0 and AVG antivirus and ever since then the computer had problems booting up. The computer restarts (at random) right after the AVG dos virus checker runs, the screens stays black for a long time then restarts. After such a restart the computer goes into safe mode. The strange thing is that while in safe mode Win98 gives a warning the the video card settings are incorrect and we have to choose 16 colors and 640x480. Well after another reboot the computer will most of the time boot up correctly except that when it does, win98 will warn us that the vido adapter settings are incorrect and we can only choose 16 colors and 640x480. I have tried nearly everything, I have checked IRQ settings, checked BIOS settings for PNP, and IRQ. Also I have disabled any legacy support for sound cards, in addition I ran registry mechanic to repair any registry damage. The problem remains Any ideas?? Thank you John G. |
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