Troubleshooting nVidia and Windows 98 Lockups

 31 December 18:00   

    Troubleshooting nVidia and Windows 98 Lockups   by Ron Merts

    Troubleshooting the nVidia/Windows 98/VIA boot-screen lockup:

    There are times with some earlier nVidia video cards (i.e. the TNT2, Vanta,

    Vanta-LT and M64) video cards installed on assertive VIA chipset motherboards

    (particularly the KT266 and before) with Windows 98 that the arrangement will halt

    either at or just afore the logon awning or desktop with lots of baby green

    lines at the top of the awning (looks array of like grass). This is acquired by

    a battle amid the Windows Plug-n-Play band drive detection, the VIA

    driver and the nVidia driver. We accept not accomplished this with GeForce

    video cards or with the newer KT400 and after motherboards; however, it seems

    particularly accustomed in the KT133 and KT266 boards with TNT2 and Vanta

    video cards. The band-aid to this is to abolish the behind INF and virtual

    device disciplinarian (.VXD) files from Windows. We acclaim renaming them as

    opposed to removing them absolutely just in case you anytime charge them in the

    future they are alone bare if you accept or are planning to use a tape-

    backup device.

    First create abiding you are able to appearance airy files and folders:

     Accessible My Computer then the Harder Drive

     Baddest Binder Options in the Appearance menu

     Bang on the Appearance tab at the top of the window

     Analysis the radio button next to Appearance hidden files and folders

     Uncheck the checkbox labeled Adumbrate extensions for accepted book types

     Bang the Administer button then abutting the window

     Now accessible the Windows binder and the Inf folder

     Locate the afterward files and change their addendum from .inf to .old

     pnpwfdc.inf

     pnpwide.inf

     pnpwtape.inf

     pnpwppt.inf

     Use the Aback button and go aback to the Windows binder and accessible the System

     folder

     Locate and accessible the iosubsys binder (it is hidden and should arise

     greyed-out)

     Locate the afterward files and change their addendum from .vxd to .old

     drvwq117.vxd

     drvwppqt.vxd

     drvwcdb.vxd

     Abutting the window and restart your system. The alcove should be resolved.

    What this does is prevents Windows from infact seeing the conflicting

    component (driver) and appropriately eliminating the lockups. The all-important files

    are still there; alone Windows won t see them.

    Should you acquisition that you absolutely charge the files for use with your band backup,

    you can accessible the SYSTEM.INI book central C:WINDOWS and adjoin the following

    to the [386Enh] section:

     DMABufferSize=64

    Once again, save and abutting the SYSTEM.INI book and restart. You alone need

    to accomplish this if you charge these files because you accept a band drive you

    are traveling to use on the system, contrarily it is recommended that you rename

    the aloft files to annihilate the problem.