Motherboard upgrade / Win98 GOTCHA!

[corwinj]

I just finished upgrading on old pentium II system running windows 98 to a pentium 4 motherboard. There is a nasty bug in Win 98 and Win 95 where most windows installations will crash when they startup with a "General Protection Fault" for NDIS if you try to install a CPU that runs at 2.2 GHz or faster. This wasted many hours of my time since I simply assumed that Windows was having trouble recognizing the onboard lan (which seems happed fairly often) so I wasted a lot of time with bios updates, trying several different versions of the lan driver etc. etc. Instead, none of this mattered -- it was just that the CPU was too fast! Here is the link to the Microsoft KB article 312108 so you don't go through the agony I did if you ever upgrade your old machine like me:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;312108

 

[etp777]

Not too surprising, Windows had a similar problem with the K6-2 above 350mhz and early athlons, if you were running 95

 

[endyen]

I believe Amd wrote that patch. Intel wont bother, they want you to upgrade every second year, with everything, including software.
I may just try 98se on my A64. It's Oced to 2.4, wonder if it will work?

 

[ChipDeath]

I assume it must have been corrected in 98SE, I never had a problem with my XP @ ~2.25Ghz when I had 98SE. Never had First edition on anything faster than ~600Mhz IIRC.

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