I am having exactly the same problem, but on my own machine.  I have a
Tekram motherboard w/ the VIA chipset and a samsung 6 gb drive.  I talked
with the Tekram support, and they said it is a problem with the ULTRA Eide
drive [specifically the samsung].  They suggested disabling the ULTRa Eide
feature in the CMOS [How?] and/or a flash update to the bios.  The last
resort is a replacement board [just what a builder needs, but new parts so
that you can spend more time getting the latest pieces for them].

I believe that if you look at the specs, you will find this is a multi
voltage chip 2.2volt core and 3.5 volt IO.

Mike Buraczewski
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-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Fisk <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, January 18, 1999 10:03 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] new AMD system boot problems


>I just built a 350 AMD k6 now system
>for a client. 10gig maxtor IDE drive, and 128mb pc100 sdram.
>on a DFI P5BV3+ rev. B+ motherboard. Two cdroms, a DVD and a CDR (both
>Panasonics)


My client called and said the computer has a problem booting up after
>being off for several hours.  It gets quite a  way into the boot process
>and then a message will pop up stating that there is a windows
>protection fault loading NTKERN or VIAG.
>necessitating 3 or 4 boot attempts to boot up sucessfullly.  After it
>has been running for a while, it seems to restart OK.
>

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