New PC problems

[hejlik]

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I recently built a pc for some freinds of mine, and I have been having nothing but problems. I think most of the problems are with windows 98, but I am not sure.

The computer doesn't seem very stable. It hangs up once in a while. I do have everything working, but it seems that sometimes they (the people I built the pc for) have to reboot the pc to get things working properly, like the printer. I am running window 98se and when I go into system information, and problem devices, there are 3 things listed, all identical. This is what it says: (acpi irq holder for pci irq steering error code= (0x9)

Here are the specs
FOXCONN SUPER CASE Silver/Black MID TOWER CASE with Allied 300W PSU, Model "PC-115A" -OEM

Lite-On Beige 52X32X52 CD-RW Drive, Model LTR-52327S BEIGE, Retail

Seagate 40GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model ST340014A, OEM Drive Only

KRETON 184 Pin 256MB DDR PC-2700

SOYO KM400 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU, Model "SY-K7VMP2

AMD Athlon XP 2000+, 266 FSB, 256K Cache Processor - Retail

I installed the via 4 in 1 drivers for the mb. What could this error mean? I searched Microsoft's site and didn't find anything. Could I assign a new irq to te problem devices? Thanks for any help.

[bullgator]

98se does not handle acpi well at all. Your best bet is a clean re-install after setting the bios power mgmt to apm. It has to do with the way windows shares irq's. (Imo, your getting close to a case of too much puter for the os.)

[mar122999]

Could be an IRQ conflict. Check "Sys information" within the "system tools" section of the start menu and click on "IRQ" to see if everthing is "OK".

[MitaDC]

well if u have an xp cd then try that (u have to get a new cd key though, if u r gonna be having nothing with problems then try a different OS, I recommend 2000 or XP)