Are you sure the cpu fan is functioning properly? The cpu being too
hot will definitely cause those type of error messages. Is the heat
sink seated tightly and flush on the chip?

                  Mark Walter

> I'm having a terrible time doing a
mobo/cpu upgrade. I'm going from an
> Asus XP55T2P4, Intel HX chipset with a Pentium 166 to an Abit AX5, Intel
> TX chipset with an AMD K6 233. Both are ATX boards and both have Award
> bios.
>
> After installing the new board and chip and configuring the bios I got
> several errors when Win95 started to boot. It locked up several times,
> got a "Bad or missing vmm32.vxd, Windows cannot continue" message. It
> wouldn't even boot in Safe Mode. After several attempts I finally
> resolved myself to a full reinstall. I reformatted and ran setup about a
> million times and it locks up when detecting hardware, suwin causes
> general protection faults, exception errors, etc.
>
> All I have in the system at this point is the STB Velocity 3D video
> card, floppy, Western Digital hard drive and 64 mb EDO ram (4 - 16mb
> sticks).
>
> I've never had this much trouble installing Win95...I guess it had to
> happen sooner or later. Has anyone had any trouble with Abit boards or
> the TX chipset? Tom's Hardware Page gave both the board and chip good
> reviews, but I'm not so sure I agree with him. Most of my experience has
> been with Asus boards.
>
> Also the K6 seems pretty hot to the touch even with the cpu fan on it. I
> have the voltage set according to what is printed on the top of the
> chip...3.2 core voltage, 3.3 I/O voltage.
>
> I'm stumped and I'll take any suggestions anyone has.
>


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