Nemo1985 wrote on 2022-07-01, 13:53:
Uhm that makes me wonder. Where the problem could be? My A350XT works fine in the p4 machine so it's not broken... could you please share a copy of your bios when you have the chance? It's a long shot but... I have no clues why it works flawlessy for you and not for me...
OK, I'm back in my hometown and, as promised, I played with the Asus A8V Deluxe build.
I even went ahead and reinstalled the OS from scratch: just as I remember it, everything is working perfectly.
FULL SYSTEM SPECS:
MB: Asus A8V Deluxe / BIOS version: 1017
RAM: 1 GB DDR400 single channel
VGA: Leadtek WinFast A350XT GeForce FX5900XT
SOUND: Yamaha YMF724F-V
HDD: Seagate 80 GB PATA
What I installed (in the exact order I installed them)
1. PATCHMEM (more on this later!)
2. DirectX 8.1
3. VIA HyperionPro V5.12A (only chipset & AGP drivers)
4. nVIDIA Detonator 45.23 (forced installation)
5. Yamaha 7x4 VXD sound drivers v4.07.1040
So, pretty basic stuff, nothing fancy, everything went smoothly, without any need for some kind of magical workaround. 😀
Now, regarding PATCHMEM, because I have 1 GB of RAM on this system, it was absolutely required in my case, since Win98 has issues with anything higher than 512 MB (at least, that's the general rule).
HOWEVER, just as I was installing it, a thought occurred to me: what if, even in your particular case, you still need to install PATCHMEM?
I know it shouldn't really be required when you only have 512 MB (which, again, is technically OK for Win98), however, in the past, I actually did encounter some motherboard/video card combos that, for some reason, when using 512 MB of memory, they completely refused to play nice together (unless I used PATCHMEM or lowered the memory capacity - at which point, all problems were completely solved). Furthermore, when that was happening, I was seeing the exact behavior that you're seeing: crash / instability immediately after installing the nVIDIA driver.
So, if you can, try and lower the memory capacity or install PATCHMEM, and see if this solves your problems. If not, this time I really am all out of ideas... 😁
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