Just a thought, do you have sufficient cooling for the AMD chip? AMD's are
prone to overheating, especially if the cooling isn't sufficient. This will
cause all kinds of nasty error messages to appear. Had this happen to me
when the fan stopped on my AMD. I thought for a while my computer had lost
it's mind.

Even if you have heat sink and fan on the chip, check to see if it is rated
to cool the processor you have.

Fran


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 9:25 AM
Subject: Bugs


> I'm having a great deal of trouble trying to get a new computer to run.
> Hardware is:
> 300watt power
> AMD Duron 1Ghz
> 128 PC133 SDRam
> Shuttle MK20 with sound and vga
> 20Gb HDD
> CD and floppy
>
> Right from the beginning of the install of Win98SE, there's been crash
after
> crash. For instance, this message came up not long after the first few
> minutes of the install:
> 'Application Error - SUWIN caused a General Protection fault in module
> Setup.dll @ 0019:46D0'.
>
> There have been numerous BSOD's like:
> 'A fatal exception OE has occurred at 0028:C004E1D0 in VXD VCACHE(01) +
> 000001EC.  Press any key........then:
>
> 'Fatal exception 0D has occurred at 0246:014747FB...........'  Press any
> key......then:
>
> 'Fatal exception 0D.........04FA:0147268B........
>
> ...and so on.  I've had messages I've never seen before:
> 'Windows encountered an error accessing the system registry.  Windows will
> restart and repair the registry"
> 'Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer'
> 'An internal stack overflow has caused the session to be halted.  Change
the
> stacks setting in Config.sys and try again'
>
> I've fdisked and reformatted the HDD and reinstalled Windows about 6
times,
> and even tried 2 different versions of W98, one full and one upgrade.
I've
> changed the ram for another stick and swapped the HDD for another fresh
one.
> The only things I haven't changed are the mobo and CPU, which luckily I've
> got more of, as I've three of these systems to build.
>
> Suggestions would be most welcome.
>
> Ian Porter
> Computer Guys
> Arrowtown
> New Zealand
> [log in to unmask]
>

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