Gigabyte GA5AX boot problem

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Patrick

I recently upgraded an old but stable and useful win98 se
machine running on a Gigabyte GA5AX motherboard to Win2k.
This board has an Alladin chipset, Ali 1541/1533 n. and s.
bridges.

What happens is sometimes it boots and works ok for some
time, but then mouse gets jerky and eventually stops and
system is locked up. It might or might not come back. I
usually get tired of it and reboot, but if it had just
locked up, it usually gets stuck on the part just before
it turns the keyboard lites off. The second, small blue
timer bar, not the big black and white one at the bottom,
stops. I know it always stops at the ali AGP system file.
Sometimes it just slows down, usually it gets stuck right
there. I have the latest drivers and BIOS installed. Disk
drive is fine. I can uninstall Win2k and Win98 works ok.

Anyone else had problems with Ali chipsets, or Gigabyte
GA5AX motherboards and Win2k?

TIA,
Patrick
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Patrick - a couple simple things you can do right after a good W2k bootup:
1. Check Device Manager for any indications of device problems. If you
have a driver, for example, that almost works DevMgr may ID it.
2. Stick the W2k CD in and run:
[CD]:\i386\winnt32.exe /checkupgradeonly
The "\checkupgradeonly" parameter causes winnt32 NOT to start an install
but to run a hardware (and to a limited extent software) analysis for
compatibility with W2k. It's fairly fast, nondestructive, and will give
you a nicely formatted report that includes fix suggestions.

Device drivers (you probably know this, but...) for W2k are unique to
W2k almost always. Drivers for other systems almost never work properly.
When in doubt, get the latest W2k driver from the manufacturer's website.
 
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