Is this WD Ultra 66? If it is, perhaps the Ultra 66 is enabled on the drive and
you don't have support for it on the motherboard. You'll need to download a
utilty from WD that checks this and disables it if it's enabled.With Win98 SMP
won't do a thing for you, you'll have to run NT.
I don't know the details, but if they built the system for you and it's been
having problems since you got it, I would take it back to these guys and demand
the thing run right. They may be giving you a great deal but if in fact they
delivered a unit that is not working properly, they either did not test the
system or don't know how to configure the thing properly. I would not spend
more money with them.
HTH,
Jose
Daryl Goddard wrote:
> It's a western digital & yes the bios is current (1008) & recognizes
> PIII, also the reason I'm thinking of stepping up has to do w/ not
> wanting to mess anymore w/ what I have now & the guy's I bought the sys
> from are making me a great deal & stuff is coming out to start taking
> advantage of SMP.
>
> "Jose E. Dominguez" wrote:
> >
> > What model hard drive?
> > Are the BIOS current and recognize the PIII?
> >
> > >I'm contemplating up grading to a Asus P2B-ds w/ PIII 550's just to see
> > >if it will help, I'm going nuts.
> >
> > I honestly don't think going dual is the answer to your problems.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Jose
> >
> > Daryl Goddard wrote:
> >
> > > I've just spent @5K on my dream system.
> > > Asus MBrd,PIII 500, 512MB Micron RAM, 20G HDD, 6xDVD, Teac CD burner,
> > > 3Com 10/100PCI NIC, Diamond MX300, Asus TNT AGP vid, USR 56K modem,
> > > Logitec cordless Kb/mouse.
> > > The darn thing locks up constantly,crashes indiscriminately, ect...
> > > I'm running '98 and minium apps (I want to see it stable before I start
> > > loading apps)
> > > After several weeks of problems I purchased Ultra-X Pro Diagnostic
> > > Toolkit, I've ran all the software tests (could'nt get the PCI Hardware
> > > testing board to work, waiting to get together w/ tech supp)
> > > Been on the phone w/ tech supp for most of the systems hardware &
> > > software manufacturers.
> > > One of the several (I won't bore you)symptoms was my sound card would
> > > randomly appear & dissappear (during boot up). Some times it worked
> > > other times not. Tech supp at Diamond suspected the MX300. So I removed
> > > it & lockups, ect.. seemed to be gone except what appear to be typical
> > > '98 problems. Now Explorer won't launch.(it launches in safe mode
> > > though)
> > > I'm contemplating up grading to a Asus P2B-ds w/ PIII 550's just to see
> > > if it will help, I'm going nuts. Any & all suggestions will be
> > > appreciated
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