Since upgrading my old K6-2 500 system to an A7V133 with 1.2GHz Athlon C, I
have been getting the above exception (always at exactly the same offset )
in GPL. It occurs occasionally, but seems more frequent while racing online.
Other programs like 3DMark 2000/2001, Sandra, etc. all seem to run fine for
days, and the only blue screens I've seen are in GPL.
The new system shares pretty much all its components from the old system,
bar the motherboard, CPU, fan and PCI modem, and so I'm struggling to find
out what the cause is. I've also resurrected the old system, and it works
faultlessly (but slowly!).
I've tried going from the original 1003 BIOS to 1004 and then 1005A Final,
but this hasn't helped. I've also tried using DMA on and off (on the IDE
controllers), using and not using the VIA busmaster drivers, using the
Promise controller, underclocking the FSB and CPU, setting the BIOS to safer
settings, shuffling the PCI cards around, reserving IRQ's for them, turning
off unused hardware (COM ports and USB) to free some IRQ's. I've also tried
reinstalling the software in case it was corrupt, but I fear the problem may
be somewhere in the O/S.
If anyone could offer some advice, even if only to say what the error might
mean and roughly where (driver, kernel, hardware, etc.), I'd be most
grateful.
Thanks in advance,
Andrew.
P.S. The specs are:-
ASUS A7V133 Rev. 1.05
1.2GHz Athlon C
256Mb PC133 CAS3
Voodoo5 5500 PCI
ELSA 56k PCI HCF Modem
Maxtor 40Gb ATA100 (master)
Fujitsu 10.4Gb ATA33 (slave)
Freecom CD R/RW 2x2x24 IDE
Windows 98SE
Office 2000
Adaptec DirectCD
VIA 4-in-4 4.27V
USB filter v1.08
Other drivers from supplied CD