My computer got crazy O

My computer got crazy O_o

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First post, by ibm5155

Posted on 2015-09-07, 12:51

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So, yesterday my bios only recognized my amd k6-3+ as a Unknown MMX at -66MHz, but, it worked fine for a long time playing starcraft 1.
Today, something weird happened, the computer recognized it as a amd k6-3+ and it was Always freezing in the boot process, I discovered that the cause was the usb 2.0 pci board (when the computer froze, the HDD light stucked in red on, so I suspect there's something related to the chipset and the pci board), so I disabled it and I discovered that the "VIA Tech V82C597 CPU to PCI bridge" was in conflict with the "VIA Tech 8598 CPU to AGP controller", I didn't knew the reason of it, so I manually changed the Memory range to an área that wasn't having memory conficlt (080000... - 083FFFFF) and the problem was fixed, and then, I discovered the usb pci board was with memory conflict too, so I set it up with another valid área, so, I decided to enable again it by Windows, and 3 seconds after I press OK, the computer froze with the light stucked in red...

So, what the Doom is happening here? D:

NOTE: OS: Win 98se and all the hardware was working without conflicts before yesterday. MB: MS-5184

Reply 1 of 8, by ibm5155

Posted on 2015-09-07, 12:58

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Quick note: today I enabled it again, without changing any stuff, and voala, it worked, what the heck is going on 😮.
But then, I restarted it and it ended up in a black screen and the hdd light got stucked in red ¬¬.
I'm going to safe mode and set to automaticaly set these configs that I set to manual, the system rebooted, but got stucked in the boot logo D::::::::::::::::

Reply 2 of 8, by Stojke

Posted on 2015-09-07, 13:10

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Maybe power supply issues? Did you accidentally bumped it, loose contact?

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Reply 3 of 8, by Jorpho

Posted on 2015-09-07, 16:23

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Did you try physically removing the USB PCI board entirely?

I had one of those flake out on me once and it caused all kinds of problems.

Reply 4 of 8, by Stojke

Posted on 2015-09-07, 19:04

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Yes that definitely, USB cards are known to cause problems. Some times on random. Caused my computer to not recognize the hard drive once.

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Reply 5 of 8, by tayyare

Posted on 2015-09-08, 10:53

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Did you check the "PnP OS" option in our BIOS? As a principle, for a W9x machine, I always choose "no". I frequently had some hardware resource conflict problems if I choose "yes" and leave the PnP configuration responsibility to Windows.

GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
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MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000

Reply 6 of 8, by ibm5155

Posted on 2015-09-08, 19:58

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The pnp os is always at no, if not the sounds played in Windows 9x will end into a infinite loop.
About swap the USB card, I'll try that later

Reply 7 of 8, by ibm5155

Posted on 2015-09-20, 15:35

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Ok, I did a swap from the last pci slot to a higher one (the one where he was was in bridge with an isa slot).
Now it's working just fine, thanks for the derp tips 😁...

Also, I think I'm going to use an pci wifi board on it, I tried one but it let the computer reeeeally slow, and didn't work with WPA2, so I hope the new one will work with it (Is there some wifi pci board with wifi n wpa2 support and compatible with Windows 98?)

Reply 8 of 8, by alexanrs

Posted on 2015-09-20, 15:42

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If I were you I'd ditch the WiFi PCI approach and get some older/cheap N router supported by OpenWRT or DD-WRT. Once you replace the firmware with either OpenWRT or DD-WRT you can set the router as a wireless cliente, so that any devices plugged into its LAN ports will be on the wireless network. That way you can use the same device for up to four retro-machines, and even old Windows 3.11/DOS machines will be happy with it.

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