Looking for help with "Corruption" problems with A7V Motherboard

[Kefka]

Greetings all,

I have searched far and wide, through many a technical forum and
several websites to solve my problem, but yet I am still plagued.

The problem is simple; When I install certain programs, they almost
all report that the installation medium is corrupt.

I have spent many an hour determining that this is not the case. The
medium is just fine.

It only seems to affect some programs. For instance, Mozilla installs
fine, but the Java SDK does not.

Most commonly the installing program reports it as a CRC Error.

Someone on the Neverwinter Nights board suggested the following:
If you're using a VIA chipset based motherboard you should set memory
timings to 'normal' in the BIOS. Something's not quite right on your
system that's causing this, and it's most likely either IDE or Memory
related.

Having a long look in the BIOS and playing around with the settings, I
couldn't find anything resembling what he suggests.

If anyone has any sort of information that might help in the
slightest, I urge you to share it with me.

Here are my system specs (and I have tried this with many other
configurations.. different NICs, hard drives, CDROMs, etc.)

Asus A7V Mainboard - Bios is the most recent, 1011 I think
Athlon Thunderbird 700 MHz
Asus AGP V6800 Video Card
Sound Blaster Live
3Com Network Card, 908B I think
6 GB hard drive, on ATA 100 IDE bus 0, port 0 (primary master)
40 GB hard drive, on ATA 100 IDE bus 0, port 1 (primary slave)
CDRW Drive on IDE, secondary master
640 MB of RAM, PC133

Running Windows 98, SE

Thanks

Kefka

 

[Joe]

Asus A7V Mainboard - Bios is the most recent, 1011 I think
Athlon Thunderbird 700 MHz
Asus AGP V6800 Video Card

You installed nvidia's video drivers? Try Asus' ones.

 

[Baron Von Black]

You installed nvidia's video drivers? Try Asus' ones.

Nothing to do with the drivers.....

See your running 640MB of RAM So, try reducing it too 512MB and see what
happens.

Used to Run Win98 SE myself before going to XP.

Ran fine with 640MB and my old Geforce 2GTS. Then I purchased a Geforce 4
and the machine would just screw up all the time with memory errors, hard
drive data corruption and BSOD!!!!

Remember 98/Me only officially support 512MB of Ram.

Plus remember what memory is on your video card also eats up part of your
memory addressing.

Check this article from Microsoft

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;253912

Hope you solve it.

 

[F.N]

It could be memory issues. I think win9x has problems with more than
512MB ram. It might also be bad memory. Goto memtest86.com and get
that program, and run all tests overnight.

The only other thing I can think of is did you install the via
4-in-1..err Hyperion drivers? Install all BUT the ATAPI (IDE)
drivers. (AGP, usb, and whatever the other one is)

 

[Joe]

Nothing to do with the drivers.....

You mean the last time I fixed a computer with this problem, I was
wrong? the problem simply vanished, the drivers has nothing to do with
that? I was pretty lucky then. You already had this problem? And you
solved it?

 

[Baron Von Black]

You mean the last time I fixed a computer with this problem, I was
wrong? the problem simply vanished, the drivers has nothing to do with
that? I was pretty lucky then.

OK joe, whats your config , vid card etc??????
Does/did your problem arise with both 512 and 640?????
Did you change any other setting related to either AGP aperture size?????

You already had this problem?

Yes and solved it dozens of times in my line of work.

And you solved it?

Yep, read microsofts tech articles thats whats they are there for.

 

[rstlne]

OK joe, whats your config , vid card etc??????

Does/did your problem arise with both 512 and 640?????
Did you change any other setting related to either AGP aperture size?????


Yes and solved it dozens of times in my line of work.


Yep, read microsofts tech articles thats whats they are there for.

hehehehe
He tried a blind ****ing fix tho and it worked
so you MUST be wrong

hehehehe

tho seriously..
The tech article doesnt talk about corrupt data..
but if the vcache is screwy then I can def see it causing read/write errors
from windows..

The CRC errors on stuff he's trying to install could also be because he's
trying to do a "Web" install from IE Cache vs "Saving" the file and then
installing from a save copy (yea it does make a difference on 98)..
Click on the link, choose save as, then after it's done open the file and
install, dont choose to open cause sometimes it doesnt work (tho it
should)..