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I've already checked temperatures, and they are fine. Running at about 30-32C. Plus the computer doesn't turn off on it's own with any other game or program. It was Eve Online only. And now when I try to go to "Stand By" mode, the computer just switches off instead in the process. Something is wrong, but I don't know what. I have a full tower case with 7 fans blowing into it from all different directions. I'm sure it's cool. The only thing that runs a little hot is my 8600gt SSC at about 59-60C, but that's because it's factory overclocked. Other than that, everything is cool.

I had no problem using "Stand By" or "Hibernate" with my desktop computer before, until after I installed this game called Eve Online. That game messed up my computer somehow. Almost like a nasty virus. When I was playing the game, 10-15 minutes into the computer would just "turn off". I thought maybe my power supply was going bad, but a new PSU yielded the same result. Other games I have did not cause the same problem. Then I learned from others who had similar problems after trying Eve Online. Now, however, when ever I use the Stand By feature on my computer, the system will start the normal process but then it stops abruptly and shuts off. Then I can't turn it back on, unless I have shut the computer off a couple of times. I think the game messed something up with my boot file or something, but I'm not sure how to fix it. I don't know if the XP repair utility will fix it, or if I'll need to reinstall Windows XP over again. I was hoping someone might know. My system is an ECS GeForce 6100SM-M motherboard, with an AMD Athlon 2.6 Dual Core AM2. I have a 500 watt PSU from Antec, a SB Audigy, and an EVGA 8600gt. 500gb SATA drive also, 2 gigs of Kingston memory, and XP Pro.

Well, I think I narrowed the problem down. It's not Linux, that's for sure. I came home from work today, and behold the computer no longer boots up. Well, at least I can't see what it's doing. I get no picture at all. Just to play it safe, I took out my sound card, disconnected my drives, and even took the memory out (just in case it was the memory). The computer turns on. The fans turn, the processor fan spins, and the hard drive lights up and stays lit up (even though I disconnected my hard drive). No picture. No POST, no bios screen, nothing. I am thinking that the onboard graphics chip is fried. The computer is well ventilated and has plenty of fans blowing in it. I don't really know if the chip got hot or not. My computer never felt hot. I'm guessing that the motherboard is okay, otherwise it wouldn't power up at all. Is that correct? If I plug in a graphics card, will that get around the problem? Does anyone have any experience with onboard graphics chips? I loved it at first, and now I'm thinking it probably wasn't such a good idea.

I'm having some trouble with my desktop computer. I have XP Pro sp2, a 500gb SATA drive, and everything was working fine. I didn't start noticing trouble until I set up a dual boot with Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. About a month later, when I boot up to XP I get the Blue Screen of Death with the following message: A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again follow these steps: (Talks about Bios and Hard drive space, which neither is an issue) STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0xBA11F868, 0xBACDFD10, 0xBACDF90C) Now, I've done a search on 0x0000007E and found that it can be related to graphics. This seems to be true, because I can boot up in Safe Mode, uninstall my Nvidia driver, reboot using the default driver from XP, reinstall the latest Nvidia driver, reboot, and my system is up. However, the next time I reboot or shut down my computer -- The same BSOD will return when I start my computer back up. This is happening constantly now. I can still do the above fix, but it will only last as long as I don't reboot. Sometimes I can reboot and it'll be okay, but most of the time the BSOD will return. Does anyone know what could be causing this and how to fix it? Is Windows corrupt, and do I need to repair or reinstall it? Is it my graphics chip, and if so will installing a new video card fix it? Thanks for your help. My computer stats are below. GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 Socket AM2 Motherboard AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Windsor 2.6GHz Socket AM2 North Bridge NVIDIA GeForce 6100 South Bridge NVIDIA nForce 430 2 gig Kingston DDR2 800 Windows XP Pro SP2 Realtek ALC883, 8 channel sound Soundblaster Audigy 500gb SATA

They do. I downloaded it yesterday, because I wanted to get a Virtual setup of Windows 95 to test out an old game I had (which works!). VPC 2007 doesn't support Win95, unfortunately -- I tried. I know you can run a virtual XP environment, but I'm not sure if you can run VPC 2004 on WinME or not.

I haven't had a chance to try these suggestions yet, but will when I get a chance and hook up a separate drive to do so. I have been fooling around with Virtual PC 2007 and I got Win98 SE to install there. Some games actually run pretty decently under VPC. And then some don't work quite as they are supposed to. (Like Carmageddon 2. I get half of the video screen showing.) And then with Virtual PC 2004, I was able to get Windows 95 installed and got one of my very old programs, Star Trek: Captain's Chair to work. That program refused to work correctly with W98 or XP. It was nice to see that there is a way to get that to work again. Finally, I'm trying to get a VPC setup for MSDOS 6.22. I'm hoping to get the old Flight Simulator 5.1 working under it. I'm having problems with it under 95 and 98, and of course it just won't work under XP. It'll need some more tweaking. It does work under Dosbox, but the framerate is not so good.

Well, I tried it... But I couldn't get far. Windows 98 SE did see my SATA drive with no problem, and I got W98 installed. Then it was time for a reboot, and that's when things went down hill. Once I got the W98 splash page, the loading of the OS slowed to a crawl. The cycle bar towards the bottom went really, really slow and it got stuck on this screen for almost 10 minutes before I gave up on it. I'm figuring that W98 saw my dual core AMD processor and 2 gig of memory and wasn't sure what to make of it. That and the chipset on the board. So I couldn't get far enough to install the NForce driver that I found. I was hoping it would work, because I have a few games that just don't work right under XP. I guess I can try Virtual PC, although I expect the emulation for gaming won't be so good. I don't play those old games much anymore, so it's alright. It would've been neat to have W98 to play around with though for some of that old software.

Mine did. What type of Chipset do you have? However, I did use one of the Via chipset drivers and it worked without any problems. Check in their archive section. I believe, South Bridge NVIDIA nForce 430 is the chipset. I have actually found an NForce Driver for Windows 98 here: NForce Windows 98 Driver I'm not sure if the driver works yet, but I'll know soon. I've got a new hard drive coming, and I'll be doing a small test to see if it works. If not, no harm done and I'll not worry about W98 or I'll use Virtual PC for it.

You know, it's interesting you would say that. Back when I was using Win98, it was on an old AMD motherboard. It was pretty unstable, which is why a friend recommended going to XP. After that, I did get an Intel board but never thought of putting Win98 on it. After that, I went back to AMD, just because I like AMD better. I have no regrets with that either, because it works great. Well, it won't hurt to try installing Win98 on this small HD when I'm able to free it up. I'll disconnect my XP drive to test it out Win98. I'm curious if I can get it to run and how well it would run.

I have a motherboard that runs XP Pro SP2 beautifully, and it's approved for Windows Vista. I'm not really interested in Vista, nor do I feel like paying the large sum of $$$ for it. I don't really have any need for it at this time. What I'd like to do is set up a dual boot system with Windows XP Pro and Windows 98SE (for older games and compatibility). I've been reading a lot of posts on various sites on how Win98 won't install on newer motherboards, due to drivers. I've done some searching and I think I found Win98 compatible drivers, but I thought I could double check here also and see if any of you would know if this motherboard would work with Win98. Gigabyte GA-M61P-S3, AM2 processor type AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Windsor 2.6GHz, AM2 (dual core) North Bridge NVIDIA GeForce 6100; internal graphics chip South Bridge NVIDIA nForce 430 Audio chip, Realtek ALC883 Has 1 IDE channel, and 4 SATA channels Although I would like to get a 500gig Sata drive, and partition a 20-30gig section just for Win98, I have read that there have been troubles with Win98 and SATA. So, if I can't do this, then i do have an old 20gig IDE drive I can use specifically for Win98. Other than that, I think I have found Win98 drivers for sound and also Nforce. I'm not sure if I need anything else. So, would this setup work for a dual boot of Win98 and XP Pro? I thought about doing multiple boot of MS-DOS, Win98, XP Pro, and possibly Vista later.... but, I think DoxBox or "dos mode" in Win98 will take care of what I need. Any advice on this would be helpful. Thanks.

Do you have a link to the 98 Shutdown fix?

I have a computer I built for my daughter. The motherboard, graphics, sound, and processor work just fine for Windows XP Pro, but I decided to set this computer up as a Windows 98 machine so that older games that my daughter likes would work correctly. Other than the occasional crashes and unstability that I remember when I used to use Win98 a long time ago, the system works pretty well. Except when we try to "Reboot to MSDOS". It closes Windows and then I get a black screen that states "Windows Protection Error. Please restart your computer." I'm not sure how to fix this, but I'd like to get it working so that we can get some old dos games to work. Plus, it's just nice to have the ability to go into DOS directly. Here are the specs of the computer: PC CHIPS M848A (V5.0) Socket A (Socket 462) SiS 746FX ATX AMD Motherboard AMD Ahtlon XP 1500 Kingston ValueRAM 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) AGP 4X / 8X slot, with an Nvidia 6600 card Onboard audio, Realtek ALC655 Windows 989SE, Full Install (no upgrade) 80gb hard drive, but all I partitioned was 30gib for W98. The rest will be for a dual boot for XP later on. Something else I've noticed is that the audio is at times glitchy and it will stutter, pause, or skip during load times on a hard drive such as when W98 boots up. I've intalled the latest drivers for Realtek, but it didn't help. I'm guessing it's just the nature of onboard audio with Windows 98. I know the onboard audio is smooth with Windows XP Pro, though. Any ideas on how to improve the performance of the audio chip? (Other than buying a sound card.) Also, if there's anything that can be done about that Windows Protection Error, that would be great too. Thanks so much for the help.