Hi,

It's possible that XP may have the ATA100/133 Drivers that it needs for
the Via Chip set already.

When you load the VIA 4 in 1, do it manually and do not load the ATA
drivers.  That could possibly causing the problems.

Thanks and have a Great Day!

Joe Lore


Subject: [PCBUILD] I'm stumped, system crash problem

Here's what has happend 3 times now.
Install Win XP, head over to via site and install the via 4in1s, reboot,
download and install DirectX 9, reboot, download and install Geforce
drivers, reboot. Everything's working fine at this point. So I start
installing my software/games, ect. Somewhere during this process of
installing software and downloading software my monitor will just turn
off. My system is still running, fans going, but no display. So I
reboot. Now when it gets to the windows loading screen I get a big blue
screen. Three diffrent times, three diffrent errors. They are all close
though. Says something like Error booting: STOP and then some memory
address. A short message saying to reboot and if that doesn't work
unisntall new hardware, and a few other suggestions. One of the errors
was like STOP_IRQ_BLAH_BLAH (2x0000000000 etc) so I tried changing the
IRQ ports. I've tryed WinXP Win2000 and WinLonghorn. Scaned HDD with no
errors, took out a stick of ram. I'm not sure what's causing this,
though it always seems to happen while on the internet. I've played
online games (Dark Age of Camelot) with no problems, but while surffing
guru3d.com it happend. And everytime in the end i'm forced to reinstall
windows.

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