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Athlon/G400 hard lockup in Forsaken

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First post, by Dacobi

Posted on 2019-02-18, 05:55

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I recently got my hands on a 900mhz Athlon with a G400.

I've installed Win98SE and Forsaken, but when running Forsaken the machine locks up hard within the first few minutes.
But it happens in different places in the maps.

What could be causing this? overheating?
I'm using the latest Matrox drivers for Win98 and DX7

/Jacob

Reply 1 of 7, by cxm717

Posted on 2019-02-18, 23:57

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It could be heat. Make sure the CPU heatsink is making good contact and it has some thermal paste. You can also try setting up a fan to move air over the G400.
Other things you can try if that doesn't help would be to run memtest to make sure the ram in the system is good and test with a different PSU.

Reply 2 of 7, by swaaye

Posted on 2019-02-19, 04:07

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Actually my thinking is AGP 2x isn't agreeing with the motherboard. This was a problem back then with various non Intel chipsets.

Get the Matrox Technical Support Tweak Utility and try forcing AGP 1x.
https://www.matrox.com/graphics/de/support/dr … s/ftp_util2.php

Reply 3 of 7, by rasz_pl

Posted on 2019-02-19, 06:32

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might be old caps, tired psu, many things

https://github.com/raszpl/FIC-486-GAC-2-Cache-Module for AT&T Globalyst
https://github.com/raszpl/386RC-16 memory board
https://github.com/raszpl/440BX Reference Design adapted to Kicad
https://github.com/raszpl/Zenith_ZBIOS MFM-300 Monitor

Reply 4 of 7, by appiah4

Posted on 2019-02-19, 07:54

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What driver version are you using for the G400?

Reply 5 of 7, by Dacobi

Posted on 2019-02-19, 14:26

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Setting AGP x1 didn't help.
I'm using driver version 683

Unfortunately I don't have a second PSU that works.

Reply 6 of 7, by swaaye

Posted on 2019-02-19, 18:34

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Which chipset do you have on that motherboard? Did you install chipset drivers?

Reply 7 of 7, by Dacobi

Posted on 2019-02-20, 12:16

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Installing the chipset drivers from CD seems to have worked 😀

The motherboard is Asus A7V

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