I believe the P5A uses a VIA chipset?
If so have you installed the latest VIA 4 in 1 drivers?
http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=2

Rode
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At 10:51 AM 9/9/2002 +1200, you wrote:
>A customer's 4yr old machine has an Asus P5A - B mobo with an AMD
>K6\2\550and a relatively new 20Gbx5400rpm drive. It came to me with two
>sticks of 168pin SDR ram, 32mb and 64mb, but I've since removed the 64Mb.
>
>The PC was running ME, but flakily, so I reformatted the drive and installed
>Win98SE.  However, the flakiness has remained - in the form of constant
>error messages, invalid page faults and exception 0E's etc.
>
>This behaviour seems to indicate ram problems, but I've tried many assorted
>sticks, including a 128Mb PC133 SDR, and caRRIED OUT STRESS TESTS ON ALL OF
>THEM, but nothing has made any difference.  The ram sticks have all been
>correct for type and voltage etc, so I don't think it's that.
>
>
>It's got me baffled - I can't think of anything else to try.  About all
>that's left are perhaps some individual BIOS settings, like CAS and RAS
>latency.
>
>Any ideas will be gratefully received.
>
>Ian Porter

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