for BRANDON

BRANDON MAILED ME
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I was looking through the virtual dr. message boards and you seemed to be......i tried to post this message on the board put it kept telling me I was unregistered even though i have already done
it....anyway...

I have an AMD Duron 750 running on an MSI Via 133a
Pro2 board. It has been running for about 6 months.
It crashed recently. I was unable to boot it in any
way everytime it gave me a blue screen saying windows
protection fault, restart computer. I bought a brand
new hd thinking the old one had crashed. I have tried
installing the new HD fresh by installing both 98 or
ME, with various bootdisks. Every time the
installation bails out, often before it begins during
scandisk or at the beginning of the install...it has
continued into the install for a few minutes before
crashing a couple of times, but it almost always gives
me a different error. DPMI error 03AF-****, sometimes
it begins trying to install while the scandisk is
still running. Sometimes it gets to the install gui
and the error box display INVALID TRUE TYPE FONT,
other times i get a system user error, other times it
just stops and displays no error message. I wonder if
my mb or cpu is bad. The hard drive is a brand new40
gb WD. I believe that it is a good hd. If you have
any tips or suggestions please let me know. Also do
you know of any cpu/motherboard diagnostics I can run?
Thank you. Any help you can give will be greatly
appreciated.

Brandon

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so, you have the problem.
I need do a few things
Besides, as much as would like to, I cannot handle things like this privately.

other imput welcome.

my first guess is memory...
please help Brandon?
I will mail him the link to this thread

thx, Jaak

Sent the link.
I don't know how this is gonna work if he cannot post

use another mail adress perhaps, and register with a similar name

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Yo Diddly, come from the voodvork out!

He needs to email Housen for help with his account: [email protected]

will let him know

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Please remember, it's FREE advice! Let the world know what worked so we can learn.
Kind regards, Jaak

Thank you for posting my email. I am on now.

Hi Brandon

what have you tried so far?

I thought you should try with another memory module in there.

the second suggestion is to first copy the windows cabinets to hard drive, and run setup from there.
(if you still get the errors, it points to memory corruption **)
if it doesn't give you these errors after memory module was replaced you are almost certain it was memory.
(eventhough it could still be something on the motherboard that caused it to go bad)

I assume cooling has been looked at
(the CPU fan is clean, spins, and the heatsink makes proper contact over the entire chip surface, with thermal stuff on the heatsink.)

I was thinking about this, and to be honest, I would be stumped...

anyone know of a good test program one can run from DOS?

for motherboard, for memory...


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Please remember, it's FREE advice! Let the world know what worked so we can learn.
Kind regards, Jaak

Hey,
I found this site.
It may just be for MSDOS,
But it has a lot of stuff. http://www.uxd.com/rst.html
romero

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Food For Thought.

[This message has been edited by romero (edited 07-17-2001).]

[This message has been edited by romero (edited 07-17-2001).]

would have to be for DOS if he cant get windows running

things like amidiag (I found it on a recent freebie CDrom from PC PRO magazine, http://www.pcpro.co.uk/front_flash.php) can test a puter. http://www.cpureview.com/rev_amidiag_c.html

romero had good links... http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/13602.shtml

has a ton of downloadable utils.
WOW, thanks.
http://www.simtel.net/pub/msdos/memutil

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Please remember, it's FREE advice! Let the world know what worked so we can learn.
Kind regards, Jaak

I did a google search.
Glad it was helpful

romero

romero, pls mail me
your addy don't work

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Please remember, it's FREE advice! Let the world know what worked so we can learn.
Kind regards, Jaak

I tried copying the cab files to the hard drive, i tried different memory modules, i removed all of the peripherals, exchanged the video card, and it is a brand new hard drive.

I finally got a couple errors that repeated this came up on multiple occasions after winme got to the setup screen and quit...

Standard Mode: Bad Fault in MS-DOS Extender.
Fault: 000D Stack Dump: 0000 0000 0070
Raw fault frame: EC=0000 IP=5EF7 CS=03AF FL=3087 SP=FFEE SS=030F

error boxes preceeding this message said general exception fault...

Another common error is
Invalid DPMI return from 06D7:01B2

THanks for the help guys. I tried using the AIM-Utility but it says it cannot execute in DOS unfortunately, all I can manage is a dos prompt

Jaak, got a question for ya. Do you think it could be the MB is toast? Just wondering if it is Reading the Memory Chips?


Brandon, bad memory is all I can come up with on this. But if you have tried other Memory sticks then it may be in the MB.

Just read Brandon tried replacing memory stick.
(the old was OUT?)

latest messg here gets me thinking it is either memory, or

OR

to try when you have set shadowing for video bios and BIOS OFF (in other words, try without BIOS shadowing, video bios shadowing, and video cache set off)

one thing you should remember
when you start anew.
with a win98 boot disk...
you should first do FORMAT C: /U
(do that U, its very meaningful)
REBOOT

then launch setup from within the directory on CD (or the copy on hard disk), not from root of CD.

setup /p j

example



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Please remember, it's FREE advice! Let the world know what worked so we can learn.
Kind regards, Jaak