Memory or motherboard?

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I was given a secondhand computer ( P4 1.5g Abit BW7 m/b) with no hard
drive or memory. I fitted a hard drive (formated it) and 128mb memory. The
computer booted and passed the POST. I went to load windows 98se however and
this is when problems started.

Part way into loading it stops and gives "Bad Fault in MS-DOS Extender" and
"SUWIN caused segment load failure in module KRNL386.exe at 0001:947D"

A bit of research said maybe a memory problem so I put in a brand new 256kb
Kingston Ram. Tried all slots. Still same problem. Some other research
suggested disabling the cashe. I did this and managed to load windows (took
4 hrs !).

Still no luck though. Gives "fatal exception 0E at 0167:BFF9DFFF"

Next morning the computer booted into windows ! Hoo ray!!!
But it only lasted about 2mins and gave a fatal exception error again!

HELP

Is the Motherboard a dud?

 

[wookie]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit (More info?)

Can you run memtest86 on it? Tell the condition of the RAM capability.

"Fly744" <fly744@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> I was given a secondhand computer ( P4 1.5g Abit BW7 m/b) with no hard
> drive or memory. I fitted a hard drive (formated it) and 128mb memory. The
> computer booted and passed the POST. I went to load windows 98se however
and
> this is when problems started.
>
> Part way into loading it stops and gives "Bad Fault in MS-DOS Extender"
and
> "SUWIN caused segment load failure in module KRNL386.exe at 0001:947D"
>
> A bit of research said maybe a memory problem so I put in a brand new
256kb
> Kingston Ram. Tried all slots. Still same problem. Some other research
> suggested disabling the cashe. I did this and managed to load windows
(took
> 4 hrs !).
>
> Still no luck though. Gives "fatal exception 0E at 0167:BFF9DFFF"
>
> Next morning the computer booted into windows ! Hoo ray!!!
> But it only lasted about 2mins and gave a fatal exception error again!
>
> HELP
>
> Is the Motherboard a dud?
>
>
>
>

 

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Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit (More info?)

"Wookie" wrote
> Can you run memtest86 on it? Tell the condition of the RAM capability.


Yeah, run Memtest86 from a floppy or CD. . .
--
Wayne ][

 

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Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit (More info?)

Thanks guys. Someone else sugested flashing the bios and it worked!


"Wookie" <Tom@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Can you run memtest86 on it? Tell the condition of the RAM capability.
>
> "Fly744" <fly744@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
> news:4098a11c$0$25012$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> > I was given a secondhand computer ( P4 1.5g Abit BW7 m/b) with no hard
> > drive or memory. I fitted a hard drive (formated it) and 128mb memory.
The
> > computer booted and passed the POST. I went to load windows 98se however
> and
> > this is when problems started.
> >
> > Part way into loading it stops and gives "Bad Fault in MS-DOS Extender"
> and
> > "SUWIN caused segment load failure in module KRNL386.exe at 0001:947D"
> >
> > A bit of research said maybe a memory problem so I put in a brand new
> 256kb
> > Kingston Ram. Tried all slots. Still same problem. Some other research
> > suggested disabling the cashe. I did this and managed to load windows
> (took
> > 4 hrs !).
> >
> > Still no luck though. Gives "fatal exception 0E at 0167:BFF9DFFF"
> >
> > Next morning the computer booted into windows ! Hoo ray!!!
> > But it only lasted about 2mins and gave a fatal exception error again!
> >
> > HELP
> >
> > Is the Motherboard a dud?
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>