Hmmmmmmm continued...

[Douglas E Thompson]

Well, I figured out the nature of the random reboots (kinda)...

I took out my Matrox Millenium II 8 meg AGP video card and swapped it
for my old PCI Matrox Millenium I 4 meg video card and rebooted. None of
the random rebooting occured. Now, since I was using the exact same
drivers and settings for the AGP video card under build 1708 (which did
NOT do the random rebooting), that pretty much narrows the problem down
to something to do with Microsoft's AGP implementation and my particular
setup. They must've fixed something else and in the process screwed up
something that was working. So, until this problem is addressed, I get
to use an older non-AGP video card. Hopefully the problem will be fixed
before my new PCI sound card arrives...

Thanks for everyone's help,

Doug Thompson
(dt...@andrew.cmu.edu)
(ens...@cmu.edu)
Carnegie Mellon University
"The Truth Is Out There"

[Douglas E Thompson]

Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.ms-windows.pre-release: 15-Apr-98 Re:
Hmmmmmmm continued... by kra...@my.email.address
> What about it being the matrox drivers acc to MS(g)
> which sound card are you getting and why that onee.
> Itss my next upgrade but sofar not sure there is any proper standard.
> On the other hand I need the ISA slot for my Hayes Esp card....

Well, I thought it might be the drivers, but the same drivers worked
fine in build 1708, so they're not the problem. Microsoft changed
something in the later builds that causes this.

I got the Soundblaster PCI 64.

Of course, now that I can't use my AGP vidcard for the time being, I'm
stuck with no available PCI slots for my new soundcard :(