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It did not come up as a clickable version when I view my own post, but when I view my your post quoting my link that is a clickable version.

Yes I am disabling BBCOde by default. Have never changed the setting. Should I be enabling BBCode to give clickable links?

I would remove everything from the working board, and install it identically onto the non-working board, and configure it the same. Including external peripherals such as your keyboard, monitor, mouse, even power cables. For example I had a problem with a system recently which would not respond when...

Hi Kachie

I am pretty sure this particular card is a 4MB version.

I could post that data for you but where do i get the CTCM7 program from to run?

Thanks for the response Edwin. I actually have a PCI (Matrox Mill. II) card in at present. I reformatted the hard disk at loaded up 98 SE from scratch today. It appeared to go fine until I got to the System Update scrollbar window just before the final reboot and I got some unusual errors here. Afte...

DFI mainboard? Yuck! Got a spare mainboard. If so, give that a try. I would not be surprised if your problem was a faulty DFI mainboard, and I say that because I have had many problems with DFI products. I don't deal with them anymore. My experience with DFI is in networking products but I would be ...

OK - From here, solving this should be easy. You have installed Windows enough times, and the modem does not automatically install correctly, so apparently Windows does not have it's own driver for that device. This seems clear now. However, you have found FM56-P on the modem. This is in this case a...

Can you not find any devices in device manager at all that resemble the modem? If not, possibly you have an ancient ISA modem and the card may require detection under the Add New Hardware (legacy detect) wizard. If it is such a modem, you may also need to disable any conflicting IRQs such as serial ...

What type of modem? What chipset, Lucent, Connexant, etc.? Given hardware is OK, Lucent drivers usually install OK but if previous modem drivers are floating around on the system things get difficult. Connexant - I find these drivers terrible to install. This has been my experience. But if the probl...

Have you tried resetting your BIOS settings or checking for any weird settings? Also, are you sure that 98 Setup is really freezing and not just taking it's time? Sometimes installation programs can appear to have frozen but they are just busy behind the scenes with no visible or obvious activity. I...

I am assuming you are talking about the OS admin password and not the BIOS password, but no I do not know a way around the problem. The good thing about a Windows admin password is that it not usually lock you out after too many attempts, so you can probably safely sit there for a half hour or hour ...

Not to worry - You have followed the manufacturer's instructions and I would say you have sucessfully updated the BIOS. Sometimes the difference between an old and new BIOS patch is difficult to notice, but you have ran the update, which apparently went through sucessfully, rebooted, and reset to de...

To update, I flashed to the original file which I still had backed up, curious to see if this displayed ITE on the screen or not. I could not see anything there, so this must have been my imagination. I then taken the advise of using the information on the chip and reflashed using a fresh ITE downlo...

Try unplugging all external cables (to the case) and work up from there, maybe starting with video, keyboard, mouse, etc, but one at a time. I recently had a new but faulty Asus board that would not initialise the video when the keyboard was plugged in - tried different keyboards, the keyboard was f...

I find that occurrs if a component such as a video card or RAM is not making proper contact or is faulty. Have you tried reseating the new memory several times which will act to clean the connectors on both the RAM modules and the slots?

Also a Merry Xmas to all on this board.

Is this a laptop you are talking about? I didn't think you could really change a graphics card on a laptop. Anyway, since the graphics card is the last thing you changed, I would look for a known good working graphics card and try this. Your symptoms sound like a graphics problem unless it is just w...