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 The NOSPIN Group http://freepctech.com 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 "Hold No Punches.." Rode brings you great shareware/freeware programs with his honest opinions in this weekly column. http://freepctech.com/rode