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Mmmm did I throw away a perfectly good card 18 days ago
A few weeks ago one of my machines threw a wobbler started blue screening and wouldn't re-install win2k. The hard drive had got corrupted. Pulling out the wintv card allowed the machine to run without any problems.
I replaced the card and no problems until last Wednesday exact same problems.
When I tried re-installing the machine would hang at fail to copy the same file near the end of copying the files to disk. Changed the CD and same place.
Shuffled the cards around hung at the same place.
Pulled out the the new wintv card since using that started the 2nd run of troubles. Stopped copying files at the same place.
Pulled out a memory stick and everything copied.
Aborted install put wintv card back in and re-installed and everything ran okay perfectly.
I've also noticed that the teletext program no longer generates a error message on exit. However it's always done this with matrox drivers for the last year or so and the memory has changed several times as has the motherboard during this period. Don't understand this.
I can only presume that the devices are mapped to certain areas in memory and last time removing the wintv card stopped a certain area being addressed. later the memory got even more faulty and this effected another area and caused the hang on copying the files to hard disk at the same place. Otherwise it doesn't make much sense.
I replaced the card and no problems until last Wednesday exact same problems.
When I tried re-installing the machine would hang at fail to copy the same file near the end of copying the files to disk. Changed the CD and same place.
Shuffled the cards around hung at the same place.
Pulled out the the new wintv card since using that started the 2nd run of troubles. Stopped copying files at the same place.
Pulled out a memory stick and everything copied.
Aborted install put wintv card back in and re-installed and everything ran okay perfectly.
I've also noticed that the teletext program no longer generates a error message on exit. However it's always done this with matrox drivers for the last year or so and the memory has changed several times as has the motherboard during this period. Don't understand this.
I can only presume that the devices are mapped to certain areas in memory and last time removing the wintv card stopped a certain area being addressed. later the memory got even more faulty and this effected another area and caused the hang on copying the files to hard disk at the same place. Otherwise it doesn't make much sense.
I discovered that if I ran the FSB at 66 instead of 100 all worked!
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