First post, by athlon-power
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Because I've changed several components since my initial Windows 98 SE install, and it began to get a little bloated as a result, I decided to format the HDD and re-install. Since I bought the ATI Rage 128 Pro, I have noticed slight graphical corruption when Windows 98 was on that little animated boot screen, but that was only once from what I could gather. I have opened Windows 98 SE setup several times, and I'd estimate that around 50% of the time, this occurs:
The computer continues to function normally. Theoretically, I could just continue setup; but I don't want to risk damaging any components. I have made sure the card is cooled, as there is a 120mm fan that runs air sucked in from the front panel by an 80mm fan inside the case directly over the Rage 128's heatsink, and in effect, the sound and network cards as well. I don't know what I'm missing here. The card functions normally in BIOS and DOS without this graphical corruption present. I don't know what's causing this, as it is very strange. Some things to note:
- Plug 'n Play is enabled in the BIOS settings- this is something I'm trying out that I've never tried before, but I doubt that this is the cause- it's an AGP card, so Plug 'n Play shouldn't really apply to it. (I also started the setup program with Plug 'n Play disabled on the motherboard- the same exact thing happened)
- I am using a "new" sound card, but in Windows, the sound card worked fine, and none of this graphical corruption was present.
- I did overclock the card with Rage Tweaker, but I had it set to stop the overclock after the reboot, and I believe that the overclock was reliant on the software to go through. I ended up overclocking it by 12% on the core, and 16% on the memory, as shown by Everest Home Edition.
I can't think of why it would work fine in DOS and BIOS, but start doing this garbage in Windows 98 SE setup. I don't know if there's anything I'm missing.
Where am I?