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JROBERTS
02-21-1999, 10:58 AM
I have been getting the Blue Screen of Death quite often for the last three weeks. They always say error in vxd vfat and error in vxd ios. I figured it was time to reinstall win98. I did a full format of the hard drive and installed win98 but I am still getting the errors. Does anyone have any ideas what my problem may be? The only other thing I can think of is one of my devices is goin bad but they all seem to be working fine. Here are my system specs.
Abit BH6
Cel 300A (OC*450)
Acer 24x cdrom
Quantum fireball ST 4.3G
STB velocity128

Thanks in advance to all replys!

bighammer
02-21-1999, 11:24 AM
what voltage do you have your BH6 at and what are your memory sttings?
Did you flash to the HN bios yet?

JROBERTS
02-22-1999, 12:22 AM
Bighammer-

The voltage is set at 2.3 and for the memory settings well I am still using the FL bios and the cas is set at 3 and the only other memory setting I know of is disabled (I can't think of what it is called). I suppose I should flash my bios to the newest one.

I have a Globalwin FAB 24 heatsink with the thermal pad. I know I should use thermal paste but I don't live anywhere near a Radio Shack. It has worked with the thermal pad for 2 1/2 months without these errors though.

bighammer
02-22-1999, 12:33 AM
What it sounds like is the chip or memory is becoming unstable.
Those are the errors most common with low{so so} voltage and memory timings being incorrect.
Go to Abit and download the HN bios.
sys a disk and put on the flash and utility on the disk{unzipped}.
reboot with the disk in.
at the A: prompt type;
A:awdflash BH6_HN.bin /cc with your voltage at 2.3v.
Hit the reset{F1 I think}
your new default volts will be 2.3 and you will be able to hit the 2.4v to see if it stablizes.