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First post, by buckeye

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My Asus P3B-F rev. 1.04 based setup for some reason locks up at windows desktop after booting at every 4th or 5th boot. See my sig for part details. Is there some sort of "log" file that would give a hint as to what's causing this? Any troubleshooting tips out there I can try short of OS reinstall? Thanks!

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Reply 1 of 8, by bjwil1991

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Which VooDoo2 driver do you have installed? I'd suggest upgrading the VooDoo2 driver to the FastVooDoo 4.6 drivers and remove a stick of RAM to see if that's the cause (might be the case). It could also be the PSU that's starting to go, too.

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Reply 3 of 8, by bjwil1991

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derSammler wrote:

Try to reduce the number of shared IRQs between the PCI cards. It's a common reason for Win9x to lock up randomly.

^ this and you're absolutely right about that. I had that issue when I swapped boards around (when I clicked on shut down, it just restarts) and it cleared itself after altering the BIOS settings, removing, and re-installing the video drivers for the PCI video card.

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Reply 4 of 8, by buckeye

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bjwil1991 wrote:

Which VooDoo2 driver do you have installed? I'd suggest upgrading the VooDoo2 driver to the FastVooDoo 4.6 drivers and remove a stick of RAM to see if that's the cause (might be the case). It could also be the PSU that's starting to go, too.

Using the latest reference drivers for the voodoo's and yes, thought about switching over to the FastVoodoo's.

256mb ram too much? Thought 512 or more was where problems start.

Asus P5N-E Intel Core 2 Duo 3.33ghz. 4GB DDR2 Geforce 470 1GB SB X-Fi Titanium 650W XP SP3
Intel SE440BX P3 450 256MB 80GB SSD Radeon 7200 64mb SB 32pnp 350W 98SE
MSI x570 Gaming Pro Carbon Ryzen 3700x 32GB DDR4 Zotac RTX 3070 8GB WD Black 1TB 850W

Reply 5 of 8, by buckeye

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derSammler wrote:

Try to reduce the number of shared IRQs between the PCI cards. It's a common reason for Win9x to lock up randomly.

Is this typically done in control panel or in the bios? Are V2's known to cause a problem in this regard?

Asus P5N-E Intel Core 2 Duo 3.33ghz. 4GB DDR2 Geforce 470 1GB SB X-Fi Titanium 650W XP SP3
Intel SE440BX P3 450 256MB 80GB SSD Radeon 7200 64mb SB 32pnp 350W 98SE
MSI x570 Gaming Pro Carbon Ryzen 3700x 32GB DDR4 Zotac RTX 3070 8GB WD Black 1TB 850W

Reply 6 of 8, by derSammler

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Depends on the BIOS and how the option "Plug & Play OS installed?" is set (if present). Check the BIOS first. The Voodoo2 does not use an IRQ, so no. But I bet some on-board device shares the IRQ with the VGA card.

Reply 7 of 8, by buckeye

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Resurrecting this thread due some latest findings. Decided to play around with the bios some more and switched the pnp os setting to yes, upon doing that the lockups have stopped.
However, no more sound in dos games and when booting noticed a new message that the vortex 2 driver in the autoexec.bat can't execute due to the pnp os setting.

I'm taking it that an IRQ is being shared or maybe need to move the vortex to a different slot? In the dark about this so maybe someone can advise on what I can do?

Asus P5N-E Intel Core 2 Duo 3.33ghz. 4GB DDR2 Geforce 470 1GB SB X-Fi Titanium 650W XP SP3
Intel SE440BX P3 450 256MB 80GB SSD Radeon 7200 64mb SB 32pnp 350W 98SE
MSI x570 Gaming Pro Carbon Ryzen 3700x 32GB DDR4 Zotac RTX 3070 8GB WD Black 1TB 850W

Reply 8 of 8, by buckeye

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Believe I finally have some closure to this. Went into the bios and disabled the parallel and serial port irq's since they were not needed, and all is well now no more lockups.

Asus P5N-E Intel Core 2 Duo 3.33ghz. 4GB DDR2 Geforce 470 1GB SB X-Fi Titanium 650W XP SP3
Intel SE440BX P3 450 256MB 80GB SSD Radeon 7200 64mb SB 32pnp 350W 98SE
MSI x570 Gaming Pro Carbon Ryzen 3700x 32GB DDR4 Zotac RTX 3070 8GB WD Black 1TB 850W