Sorcorer
10-29-2002, 08:47 PM
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I'm building a new system on an ASUS A7S333 motherboard with an AMD Athalon XP 1700 266mhz processor and 256 MB 266 mhz PC2100 DIMM/DDR. It has Liteon CD, CDRW and DVD and an ATI Radeon 7500 64mb video card.
1st problem I could only get WIN98 to load with bios defaults...
128 mb ram, 1100 mhz processor
2nd problem I get "object reference not set error" loading ATI
AGP software
3rd problem I get "installation interrupted" error trying to
load NERO CD copy software
I've tried jumper and jumper free modes for bios but can only get boot with defaults
BipolarBill
10-29-2002, 09:26 PM
Sounds like faulty memory. You are running 133MHz system bus, right?
jmichna
10-29-2002, 09:37 PM
Some trouble shooting suggestions:
1. Since something is buggered, assume you are going to have to reformat your HD and load stuff again from scratch... you prob don't have much on it, so that's not too much trouble.
2. Pull out all the extra hardware with the exception of CPU/HS/fan, vid card, ram, floppy and HD. Boot, make sure all is recognized properly in BIOS. Use jumper-free mode, set everything to default (fsb at 133, cpu multiplier at 11.0, yielding 1467mHz), default vcore (1.75), memory at "fast" or "turbo" timings, etc.
3. Assuming all is recognized, start adding hardware back one at a time, rebooting and going into BIOS to make sure nothings gotten buggered again.
4. Can you try another stick of memory... as Bill indicated, that could be the problem.
5. Get ahold of the "reference drivers" for your Radeon 7500... I had a heck of a time with that particular vid card when I built my wife's pc (Asus P4S533 mobo, P-4, SiS chipset, though like your board) until I used the reference drivers. Try this link (http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/powered.html) for drivers.
6. Are you sure you've got the correct IDE cables (suitable for ATA-33 and higher), and that the various devices are set properly to master, slave as required? Your descrition points to 3 (CD-ROM, CD-RW and DVD-ROM) in addition to the harddrive. Do you have spare cables you can try.
7. You've got a lot of hardware devices... what are you using for power supply? Brand, model, output?
8. Once all the hardware gets recognized, now do your Win98 installation, then immediately add whatever drivers came on your mobo CD, then all Win patches, and so on.
Good luck,
jmichna