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  • #1

    Huh? BSOD :(

    I installed W98 on a new drive in an effort to get a game to work properly, and I hoped this would solve all my problems, but no..
    I have quite a few different powerdesk versions and the most recent one I have got to work on this new install is 4.33... More recent ones either freeze or BSOD then freeze whenever I try to shut down the computer or start a directx game.... I have never had this problem before (I think I must have had every other one tho and still have a few on my main install!) but I really don't see why the new drivers won't work... If I change hard drives and use my old one with 6.11 on, I have no such problems...
    Perhaps I have forgotten do to something on the new install? I can't think of anything though...
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  • #2
    First a question in the "Duhhhh" category.

    1. Are the drives configured properly in relation to each other? Master/Slave? Primary Dos Partition correctly set? basics like that?

    2. Are both drives still in the machine or are you physically removing one and plugging the other in?

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    • #3
      Make sure your DirectX SW is up to date.
      <TABLE BGCOLOR=Red><TR><TD><Font-weight="+1"><font COLOR=Black>The world just changed, Sep. 11, 2001</font></Font-weight></TR></TD></TABLE>

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      • #4
        Ohh nope not that. Hehe... Actually I have both plugged in most of the time and swap the drive letters round with the BIOS..
        But both are removable drives so sometimes I just have one in... I know it's nothing to do with that tho coz everything else works fine with an ancient powerdesk but when I use the newest ones it does a VMM BSOD etc...

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        • #5
          I am using DirectX 7.0 but I used to use DX 5 with some of the old powerdesks that crash now...

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          • #6
            Installed 6.01 and DirectX works fine but it still crashes when I try to shut down...

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            • #7
              Most of the time, VMM errors are caused by the lack of VIA chipset patches on motherboards using that chipset... is this the case? Did you install the patches?

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              • #8
                I didn't this time, because I was getting random crashes before and they seemed to stop when I uninstalled them... I will try again tho.. What do I need? The gart thing or what? Turbo mode?

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                • #9
                  If you have a VIA chipset, then just got with the 4 in 1 build 424, run that and you'll be set.

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                  • #10
                    Yeah I know about that.. I just meant which part of that fixes the error?
                    Anyway I installed the AGP one and it it seems ok now

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