Problems when starting windows 98 with G400

[Jorden]

Freddy, follow Beezer's instructions and you should be home free Sorry for the late answer, but I've had a couple of problems with another computer in my network the past couple of days.

Skyekeeper: Anybody know how to get rid of it in Windows?

I think you can only get rid of it by installing Windows with the ACPI option disabled in the bios.

Btw, what is the use of the 2 Ethernet cards in your configuration? Or is one a cable-modem?

Jord.

[SkyeKeeper]

Jorden;
Yes, one of the NIC's is for ADSL.

I had ACPI disabled in the BIOS when I installed Win98 SE, but it loaded it anyway.

I've got nothing against ACPI, really, but the first time I used it (Quite some time ago) it turned the fan off of an overclocked AMD.

I was running it with the case open, cause I already had a heat problem. I noticed a smell like a soldering iron heating up, and being the genius that I am, I reached in and grabbed the processor. I did a little shouting, I'll tell you that, and dancing too! Since then, I have not used power saving for anything except the monitor.

[Jorden]

No swearing, Skyekeeper?

My strange thing is that I don't have an option to disable ACPI in the BIOS, but that upon installing Windows again it (for the first time ever on my old Asus P2B mobo) installed all kinds of ACPI thingies as well. Most of which I can't disable

But as far as I know you have to disable the ACPI in BIOS, then format your drive, then install Win98 on it so it won't have any of the ACPI thingies ( ) around.

Jord.

[SkyeKeeper]

Yeah, Jorden, there are always a few little "issues" with new hardware.

I've noticed that it always flashes those out of sync lines when it boots or comes out of power saving mode. Sometimes, it's just for a fraction of a second and it boots normally, and sometimes it locks up hard. When it locks up it takes the video drivers with it. It will load the Matrox drivers the next time I boot, but I am limited to 640X480 16 color. I have to uninstall the drivers, and then reinstall to get it going again.

I dunno... Most likely I'm missing some tiny little ...something... somewhere.

[Jorden]

Did you check for remnants of old drivers (other videocard) or if you use PD6, did you use the Matrox uninstaller?

Another thing you might want to look at is drivers for your monitor.

Jord.

[SkyeKeeper]

It looks like the trick was to ENABLE ACPI in the bios. I've brought it out of standby half a dozen times and rebooted twice without a glitch.

hehehe... I figured it was something simple like that.

Thanks for the help.