The only thing that i can come up with is that the  chips are
manufactured by different companines & there is a conflict there...other
than that try starting up in Safe Mode & doing some troubleshooting that
way....check the virtual memory & see how that is specified...windows
may not be allocating memory the right way....

Steve

>>> [log in to unmask] 12/17/01 08:12PM >>>
Earlier today I attempted to upgrade a beige box (AMD800 w/128MB RAM,
W98SE)
with a 256MB DIMM (Viking PC133).  Successful memory check upon boot;
but I
get either a windows protection error when starting windows, or BSODs
(vcache
& vxd errors) if windows actually boots.  This occurs  whether the new
DIMM
is installed by itself or with the original 128MB (also PC133).  In the
BIOS
settings (Award) the options for the DIMM sockets are "Normal",
"Fast",
"Turbo" & "SDRAM 8/10ns".  Tried 'em all to no avail.  I thought bad
memory,
but that very same DIMM is causing no errors on my own AMD950; been
playing
Max Payne for the past 2 hours with it installed.  Any ideas?


Ian Carmichael

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