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Q: Obscure Crashes, Blue Screens every 5 minutes concerning VTDAPI, please help !!
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Christoph Zeis
Feb 6, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/6/00
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Though my system (Win98 SE, ASUS T2P4, AMD K6-III 400MHz) ran stably for
months I recently get Blue Screens with error-messages concerning VTDAPI
every five minutes. Intersting that I could not find any VTDAPI.vxd on
my HD.
I first thought to have caught a virus that could have come with an
obscure E-Mail I received last week and scanned my HD愀 with the newest
Dat-files of McAfee and AntiVir but did not find anything. (I also
suspected the Jagged Alliance 2 Patch 1.05 which quite oftenly caused
my system to crash completely, could that have damaged the system?)
But the problem still remained after twice flashing the BIOS, formatting
the HD愀 and completely reinstalling Win98 .
Then I heard about the 49,7 days Win98-Bug and installed the
MS-216641up.exe-Patch. This also showed now effect.
Now I tested the extended memory with CTRAM51.exe and found 271
Single-Bit-errors. I will now have to replace my memory-modules, I am
afraid.
But I don愒 dare to insert new ones unless I know what could have
damaged them. Are there viruses that can destroy memory or were they
just too old or could they have been damaged due to all those crashes?
months I recently get Blue Screens with error-messages concerning VTDAPI
every five minutes. Intersting that I could not find any VTDAPI.vxd on
my HD.
I first thought to have caught a virus that could have come with an
obscure E-Mail I received last week and scanned my HD愀 with the newest
Dat-files of McAfee and AntiVir but did not find anything. (I also
suspected the Jagged Alliance 2 Patch 1.05 which quite oftenly caused
my system to crash completely, could that have damaged the system?)
But the problem still remained after twice flashing the BIOS, formatting
the HD愀 and completely reinstalling Win98 .
Then I heard about the 49,7 days Win98-Bug and installed the
MS-216641up.exe-Patch. This also showed now effect.
Now I tested the extended memory with CTRAM51.exe and found 271
Single-Bit-errors. I will now have to replace my memory-modules, I am
afraid.
But I don愒 dare to insert new ones unless I know what could have
damaged them. Are there viruses that can destroy memory or were they
just too old or could they have been damaged due to all those crashes?
PS.: Win98 also wants to automatically connect to internet at
system-startup though I even do not know where to enable such a function
nor how to disable it.
I.McF.
Feb 16, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/16/00
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this problem your having is a ram failure..look in the bios and see if you
can slow the ram buss speed down from 100mhz to 66 mhz (someboards like mine
will alow this to run pc66 ram)..if not I suppect some one sold you som
marginal ram tha is only going bad (or marginal) after time..most .dll files
get loaded into exactly the same mem location every time you boot up
windows..so if the ram failure is failing where the .dll file is you will
get a blue screen crash every time with the same driver or whatever is
loaded up there..
can slow the ram buss speed down from 100mhz to 66 mhz (someboards like mine
will alow this to run pc66 ram)..if not I suppect some one sold you som
marginal ram tha is only going bad (or marginal) after time..most .dll files
get loaded into exactly the same mem location every time you boot up
windows..so if the ram failure is failing where the .dll file is you will
get a blue screen crash every time with the same driver or whatever is
loaded up there..
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