Now this is getting annoying

Dark Bard · Post by **Dark Bard** » Wed Mar 28, 2001 7:47 pm

Has anyone ever encountered this little problem. I'm running an Athalon 1 gig, Abit KT7ARaid with 128 MB ram under Win98SE, what is happening is this. Some times when downloading a very large file over my @Home connection I get a BSOD "system busy" warning and I have to reboot. This usually happens with any file over 10 MB but it doesn't happen with every file so tracking it's root is a pain. I first thought my NIC was confolicting with my Live on the same IRQ but I resoved that and now my NIC, Live and TNT card all have their own IRQ's that are shared with nothing else. Could it be an Athalon thing. I've had an AMD DX4 in the past and would get "System busy" errors? I'm really at a loss and wonder if I should have gone with a Pentium.

glc1 · Post by **glc1** » Wed Mar 28, 2001 7:49 pm

Have you tried a differnt NIC?

Dark Bard · Post by **Dark Bard** » Wed Mar 28, 2001 8:37 pm

No, I haven't. Could a bad NIC behave that way. Everyhting else is working great, just once in a while with a really large file the system hangs up.

g-c0de · Post by **g-c0de** » Thu Mar 29, 2001 8:15 am

hey, if windows is crashing, than that is the source of your problem, its winblows, some unknown file probably did something to your os thats why its acting weird, try doing some backup and either reinstalling windows 95 or install one of the recent operating systems such as windows me or windows 98, did you download all the updates fro windows 95?, try going to the microsoft update page

g-c0de · Post by **g-c0de** » Thu Mar 29, 2001 8:16 am

crap lol i mean windows 982nd edition, try installing it again

g-c0de · Post by **g-c0de** » Thu Mar 29, 2001 8:17 am

if your fed up with your 1000mhz cpu and motherboard, ill be happy to trade you with my cyrix 133

dannjr · Post by **dannjr** » Thu Mar 29, 2001 8:22 am

Whats the numbers involved with the BSOD
If there similar to say 10055 then its a socks buffer space problem and you need to install this tweak http://humlog.homestead.com/nicksconsulting/files/10055NoBufferWin98.zip

Dark Bard · Post by **Dark Bard** » Thu Mar 29, 2001 7:55 pm

DannJR, your suggestion was close, I think. I made the change to my registry, rebooted and tried the same file, actually it's a stream of the Halo movie for Xbox. It did stop again but it did not BSOD me. I was able to shut it down and go back to browsing. Wierd but I'm still certain its a win98 & AMD problem. I only started having it after moving to this new CPU and board. Granted it happens in only a few situations so I guess it's not a major concern but a weird quirk.

HonestAbe · Post by **HonestAbe** » Fri Mar 30, 2001 3:48 am

Was it only large streaming videos or regular file downloads?

Two more things you can try:

- set your NIC to 10/half-duplex

- dedicate some RAM to your NIC's IRQ by adding that tweak in your SYSTEM.INI file

Regards - Steve

barracuda · Post by **barracuda** » Fri Mar 30, 2001 6:04 am

I have the same system with no problem.
Not your hardware. Even overclocked.
Great board to tweak.

Eaglescout · Post by **Eaglescout** » Fri Mar 30, 2001 5:23 pm

Dannjr, what is that tweak you posted? What does it do? I am on windows98SE, and although I have not had any probelms downloading, is it something I should get anyway?

Thanks,

Eaglescout

[ 03-30-2001: Message edited by: Eaglescout ]

Dark Bard · Post by **Dark Bard** » Fri Mar 30, 2001 8:12 pm

Honestabe, the problem doesn't occur that regular. It's most likely to occur while streaming a vid or sometimes when I play UT especially between levels when I'm downloading a map that's not on my HD. It's very wierd in that it almost seems like it's what it says it is the CPU is just too busy to go any further with the task.

tekelberry · Post by **tekelberry** » Sat Mar 31, 2001 6:33 pm

Win2K too

broadband brown · Post by **broadband brown** » Sat Mar 31, 2001 8:10 pm

hmmm.. I have the same board with a 900mhz tbird.. never seen anything like that happen... do you have the hard drives on the highpoint controller? and do you have a soundblaster live that is using IRQ 5 for "sb16 emulation"? this could cause the problem. there is a great KT7-KT7A faq at www.viahardware.com. that might help you out.

Storm90 · Post by **Storm90** » Sun Apr 01, 2001 1:05 pm

I would go with reinstalling windows and another nic. With windows sounds like their is a file missings. If it the nic .It will cause this to. But their is one more thing I have seen cause this and it is the Explorer. So I would try repairing it first . Before doing anything else and see if that helps. GoodLuck!