K7VEMPRO--upgraded to Athlon 1900. now windows 98se won't start

Hi:
I build a cheap 2nd hand computer for internet use only a couple
months ago.
The motherboard, from ebay, is the K7VEMPRO (not the pro 1.0)
It had a duran 850 cpu, and the FSB was set at 200.
I just got an Athlon 1800+ 1.5GH Palamino core. The soyo website
says it should work if I run at 266FBS.
I have the 6.00pc Bios.

I set the jumper for the fsb to 266 (from 200). (Now its pins 1
and 2 instead of 2 and 3.)

At the beginning of the bootup, the screen shows the cpu to be
the correct Athlon 1800+.

But as windows 98se starts to open, I get a warning saying that :

"While initializing configmg,
Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer."

When I do, it goes into safe mode, and then crashes with the blue
screen of death.

If I turn everything off and start again, windows gets to the
point where it scans the registry (because it wasn't shut off
properly) but as soon as that's done, the warning window about the
windows protection error comes back.

No matter what I do, I can't get win98se to start.

If I put the FSB jumper back to pins 2-3 (200fsb), the computer
starts up again.


Does anyone have some ideas on whats happening/going wrong?

Do I need to make some changes besides changing the FSB jumper?

Thanks very much for any help you can give.

ron

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:02:42 -0400, wrote:

>Hi:
> I build a cheap 2nd hand computer for internet use only a couple
>months ago.
> The motherboard, from ebay, is the K7VEMPRO (not the pro 1.0)
>It had a duran 850 cpu, and the FSB was set at 200.
> I just got an Athlon 1800+ 1.5GH Palamino core. The soyo website
>says it should work if I run at 266FBS.
> I have the 6.00pc Bios.
>
> I set the jumper for the fsb to 266 (from 200). (Now its pins 1
>and 2 instead of 2 and 3.)
>
> At the beginning of the bootup, the screen shows the cpu to be
>the correct Athlon 1800+.
>
> But as windows 98se starts to open, I get a warning saying that :
>
> "While initializing configmg,
> Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer."
>
> When I do, it goes into safe mode, and then crashes with the blue
>screen of death.
>
> If I turn everything off and start again, windows gets to the
>point where it scans the registry (because it wasn't shut off
>properly) but as soon as that's done, the warning window about the
>windows protection error comes back.
>
> No matter what I do, I can't get win98se to start.
>
> If I put the FSB jumper back to pins 2-3 (200fsb), the computer
>starts up again.
>
>
> Does anyone have some ideas on whats happening/going wrong?
>
> Do I need to make some changes besides changing the FSB jumper?
>
> Thanks very much for any help you can give.
>
> ron
The problem is there are different cpu drivers loaded than the ones
you currently have. Yes normally all that is taken care of by Windows
but now that you have changed, substantially, you have found it.
There are 2 easy ways to deal with this, the 1st is just to get
another hard drive and load a new OS on there and start over and keep
your existing harddrive as a slave drive. Yes you will have to reload
all of your programs. Yes all of the spyware/viruses/spam that is
currently on your computer will be gone.
The 2nd way is to put the OS cd in the drive and at the SECOND 'R' do
a replace of the OS. This works SOMETIMES.
You seem to have stumbled headlong into one of the many reasons why IT
people make so much money.

I was going to say check out your RAM and power supply.
Make sure your cooling is working with that processor too!

good luck!

"f/fgeorge" <> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:02:42 -0400, wrote:
>
>>Hi:
>> I build a cheap 2nd hand computer for internet use only a couple
>>months ago.
>> The motherboard, from ebay, is the K7VEMPRO (not the pro 1.0)
>>It had a duran 850 cpu, and the FSB was set at 200.
>> I just got an Athlon 1800+ 1.5GH Palamino core. The soyo website
>>says it should work if I run at 266FBS.
>> I have the 6.00pc Bios.
>>
>> I set the jumper for the fsb to 266 (from 200). (Now its pins 1
>>and 2 instead of 2 and 3.)
>>
>> At the beginning of the bootup, the screen shows the cpu to be
>>the correct Athlon 1800+.
>>
>> But as windows 98se starts to open, I get a warning saying that :
>>
>> "While initializing configmg,
>> Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer."
>>
>> When I do, it goes into safe mode, and then crashes with the blue
>>screen of death.
>>
>> If I turn everything off and start again, windows gets to the
>>point where it scans the registry (because it wasn't shut off
>>properly) but as soon as that's done, the warning window about the
>>windows protection error comes back.
>>
>> No matter what I do, I can't get win98se to start.
>>
>> If I put the FSB jumper back to pins 2-3 (200fsb), the computer
>>starts up again.
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have some ideas on whats happening/going wrong?
>>
>> Do I need to make some changes besides changing the FSB jumper?
>>
>> Thanks very much for any help you can give.
>>
>> ron
> The problem is there are different cpu drivers loaded than the ones
> you currently have. Yes normally all that is taken care of by Windows
> but now that you have changed, substantially, you have found it.
> There are 2 easy ways to deal with this, the 1st is just to get
> another hard drive and load a new OS on there and start over and keep
> your existing harddrive as a slave drive. Yes you will have to reload
> all of your programs. Yes all of the spyware/viruses/spam that is
> currently on your computer will be gone.
> The 2nd way is to put the OS cd in the drive and at the SECOND 'R' do
> a replace of the OS. This works SOMETIMES.
> You seem to have stumbled headlong into one of the many reasons why IT
> people make so much money.
>