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Strange FPU error on P3 computer
Since my original posting a few days ago on
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc had no replies, i thought that one of the excellent people in this group might help... I have this very decent computer with a Gigabyte GA-6BXC mobo and a Pentium III MMX 450 MHz. 18 GB SCSI, 192 MB RAM It has an Adaptec SCSI card, a SCSI CD-ROM player (on ID4) and a SCSI hard disk (on ID0). It used to be a NT4 server before it was retired. It works fine, it boots fine all components report OK, but as soon as I attempt to install WIN98 on it, it immediately reports an error during Scandisk as follows: run-time error M6101: MATH - floating point error: invalid and stops dead. I tried to replace the SCSI setup with a IDE HD and CD-ROM, even removing the SCSI card. Works fine! boots fine, but I encounter the very same error during Scandisk. Is it a processor problem? could it be a config problem? This machine worked for two years as a server and never gave me the slightest problem. I would love to use it as my workstation, it would perform better than my old Pentium I - 166! Thanks in advance for any suggestion! Robert |
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Strange FPU error on P3 computer
processor, consider an upgrade, cause thats a slow CPU.
"Robert Dansereau" wrote in message om... Since my original posting a few days ago on comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc had no replies, i thought that one of the excellent people in this group might help... I have this very decent computer with a Gigabyte GA-6BXC mobo and a Pentium III MMX 450 MHz. 18 GB SCSI, 192 MB RAM It has an Adaptec SCSI card, a SCSI CD-ROM player (on ID4) and a SCSI hard disk (on ID0). It used to be a NT4 server before it was retired. It works fine, it boots fine all components report OK, but as soon as I attempt to install WIN98 on it, it immediately reports an error during Scandisk as follows: run-time error M6101: MATH - floating point error: invalid and stops dead. I tried to replace the SCSI setup with a IDE HD and CD-ROM, even removing the SCSI card. Works fine! boots fine, but I encounter the very same error during Scandisk. Is it a processor problem? could it be a config problem? This machine worked for two years as a server and never gave me the slightest problem. I would love to use it as my workstation, it would perform better than my old Pentium I - 166! Thanks in advance for any suggestion! Robert |
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Strange FPU error on P3 computer
may be worth checkin the bios settings
esp. the memory speed...turn everything to low setting and try may be worth tryin spare ram stick...just incase 1 gone bad "Mike" wrote in message ... processor, consider an upgrade, cause thats a slow CPU. "Robert Dansereau" wrote in message om... Since my original posting a few days ago on comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc had no replies, i thought that one of the excellent people in this group might help... I have this very decent computer with a Gigabyte GA-6BXC mobo and a Pentium III MMX 450 MHz. 18 GB SCSI, 192 MB RAM It has an Adaptec SCSI card, a SCSI CD-ROM player (on ID4) and a SCSI hard disk (on ID0). It used to be a NT4 server before it was retired. It works fine, it boots fine all components report OK, but as soon as I attempt to install WIN98 on it, it immediately reports an error during Scandisk as follows: run-time error M6101: MATH - floating point error: invalid and stops dead. I tried to replace the SCSI setup with a IDE HD and CD-ROM, even removing the SCSI card. Works fine! boots fine, but I encounter the very same error during Scandisk. Is it a processor problem? could it be a config problem? This machine worked for two years as a server and never gave me the slightest problem. I would love to use it as my workstation, it would perform better than my old Pentium I - 166! Thanks in advance for any suggestion! Robert |
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Strange FPU error on P3 computer
Robert Dansereau wrote:
It works fine, it boots fine all components report OK, but as soon as I attempt to install WIN98 on it, it immediately reports an error during Scandisk as follows: run-time error M6101: MATH - floating point error: invalid IIRC this is an internal scandisc problem with Fat32 partitions above 2Gb, There's something about it in the MS Knowledge base I think. Lee -- To reply use lee.blaver and NTL world com |
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Strange FPU error on P3 computer
processor, consider an upgrade, cause thats a slow CPU.
Slow my hind end. Makes me near sick when I hear that or know of people using WinXP in either release. http://www.walshcomptech.com/comp_coll.htm and for the real shocker-- http://greyghost.dyndns.org/about65sx.htm Read these very carefully. All of the computers are shown are very useful. Just shows what you can do with some work instead of further contributing to our landfills. And --yes-- I do own 'modern' computers as well. William |
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Strange FPU error on P3 computer
hey, im a gamer, im used to fastness
"William R. Walsh" m wrote in message news:MFfWa.32818$YN5.27519@sccrnsc01... processor, consider an upgrade, cause thats a slow CPU. Slow my hind end. Makes me near sick when I hear that or know of people using WinXP in either release. http://www.walshcomptech.com/comp_coll.htm and for the real shocker-- http://greyghost.dyndns.org/about65sx.htm Read these very carefully. All of the computers are shown are very useful. Just shows what you can do with some work instead of further contributing to our landfills. And --yes-- I do own 'modern' computers as well. William |
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Strange FPU error on P3 computer
"William R. Walsh" m wrote in message news:MFfWa.32818$YN5.27519@sccrnsc01... processor, consider an upgrade, cause thats a slow CPU. Slow my hind end. Makes me near sick when I hear that or know of people using WinXP in either release. Unfortunately one sees this all too often these days- Q. My PC keeps locking up/crashing/stops responding/throws up errors. A. Ah, you need a faster CPU, that'll sort it. It's complete garbage of course, but people are all too willing to accept that the cause of instability is slower hardware. One of the PCs I run is a PII 350. It runs Cakewalk 9 midi sequencer, Steinberg Wavelab, Picture Publisher 9 etc etc and while it isn't blistering, it gets the job done, and it's rock solid. OK, not exactly an antique, but still getting on a bit. Where did the CPU and motherboard come from?(Abit BE6II with 4 IDE ports!) They were headed for the dump, I salvaged them. If a newbie to the computer world wants to learn about computers, I mean really learn, a Debian Linux distro and a 386 16MHz with 4 MB Ram system will teach them far more than an AMD 3GHz with a gigabyte of ram running XP. Education is a great use for old PCs, and it's tragic so many systems (often complete with monitors, ram hard drives etc) end up trashed. Dave |
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Strange FPU error on P3 computer
Hi,
I have seen this before. Could be bad cache or ram. Download RamTest (free) from: http://www.simg.de/ramtest.e.html Install it on a bootable floppy and run it from the Dos prompt. If you have ram problems it will find them. I once had a machine with a sticky bit that caused intermittent crashes. This was the only tool that could detect it. You can also disable the external cache and try again. There is also the possibility of a bad cpu. Is it cooled adequately? If it is a machine with a static heat sink (no fan on the heat sink) make sure the case is closed when running it. A PIII 450 is a fine machine for running Win98, Hope this helps Alex |
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Strange FPU error on P3 computer
dont p3s just slow down wen they over heat?
"Alex Schulz" wrote in message ... Hi, I have seen this before. Could be bad cache or ram. Download RamTest (free) from: http://www.simg.de/ramtest.e.html Install it on a bootable floppy and run it from the Dos prompt. If you have ram problems it will find them. I once had a machine with a sticky bit that caused intermittent crashes. This was the only tool that could detect it. You can also disable the external cache and try again. There is also the possibility of a bad cpu. Is it cooled adequately? If it is a machine with a static heat sink (no fan on the heat sink) make sure the case is closed when running it. A PIII 450 is a fine machine for running Win98, Hope this helps Alex |
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Strange FPU error on P3 computer
I know P4's do, from first hand experience. Had a heat sink almost fall off
once. Machine ran sporatically and made noise. Figured I'd better check it out, sure enough, one of the heatsink clips came loose. As far as the FPU error goes. Wouldn't it be just as easy/cheap to grab an older Celeron or slower P3, slap it in and see if the problem goes away? JDG "johnnie7" wrote in message ... dont p3s just slow down wen they over heat? "Alex Schulz" wrote in message ... Hi, I have seen this before. Could be bad cache or ram. Download RamTest (free) from: http://www.simg.de/ramtest.e.html Install it on a bootable floppy and run it from the Dos prompt. If you have ram problems it will find them. I once had a machine with a sticky bit that caused intermittent crashes. This was the only tool that could detect it. You can also disable the external cache and try again. There is also the possibility of a bad cpu. Is it cooled adequately? If it is a machine with a static heat sink (no fan on the heat sink) make sure the case is closed when running it. A PIII 450 is a fine machine for running Win98, Hope this helps Alex |
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Strange FPU error on P3 computer
my P4, the clip broke, it doesnt slow down, it just locks up
"Jeremy D. Grotte" wrote in message ... I know P4's do, from first hand experience. Had a heat sink almost fall off once. Machine ran sporatically and made noise. Figured I'd better check it out, sure enough, one of the heatsink clips came loose. As far as the FPU error goes. Wouldn't it be just as easy/cheap to grab an older Celeron or slower P3, slap it in and see if the problem goes away? JDG "johnnie7" wrote in message ... dont p3s just slow down wen they over heat? "Alex Schulz" wrote in message ... Hi, I have seen this before. Could be bad cache or ram. Download RamTest (free) from: http://www.simg.de/ramtest.e.html Install it on a bootable floppy and run it from the Dos prompt. If you have ram problems it will find them. I once had a machine with a sticky bit that caused intermittent crashes. This was the only tool that could detect it. You can also disable the external cache and try again. There is also the possibility of a bad cpu. Is it cooled adequately? If it is a machine with a static heat sink (no fan on the heat sink) make sure the case is closed when running it. A PIII 450 is a fine machine for running Win98, Hope this helps Alex |
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Strange FPU error on P3 computer
Maybe it's the difference in mobo's and the bios or something...
JDG "Mike" wrote in message ... my P4, the clip broke, it doesnt slow down, it just locks up "Jeremy D. Grotte" wrote in message ... I know P4's do, from first hand experience. Had a heat sink almost fall off once. Machine ran sporatically and made noise. Figured I'd better check it out, sure enough, one of the heatsink clips came loose. As far as the FPU error goes. Wouldn't it be just as easy/cheap to grab an older Celeron or slower P3, slap it in and see if the problem goes away? JDG "johnnie7" wrote in message ... dont p3s just slow down wen they over heat? "Alex Schulz" wrote in message ... Hi, I have seen this before. Could be bad cache or ram. Download RamTest (free) from: http://www.simg.de/ramtest.e.html Install it on a bootable floppy and run it from the Dos prompt. If you have ram problems it will find them. I once had a machine with a sticky bit that caused intermittent crashes. This was the only tool that could detect it. You can also disable the external cache and try again. There is also the possibility of a bad cpu. Is it cooled adequately? If it is a machine with a static heat sink (no fan on the heat sink) make sure the case is closed when running it. A PIII 450 is a fine machine for running Win98, Hope this helps Alex |
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