Crash and mouse freeze on startup

[Castellon]

Do you have the ATI control panel in the bottom right hand corner?
What mouse are you using?
You may also want to switch from the VIA drivers to the native windows drivers.

 

[Castellon]

Originally posted by Owen
I normally have the ATI control panel in the tool box at the bottom right. I haven't checked to see if I lose it or not. I will check next time it happens.

Mouse is a standard wired Microsoft Mouse with standard Windows 98 drivers.

Which particular VIA drivers do you mean Castellon? Come to think of it, why might this help?

VIA drivers are proven to be buggy! If you had XP you would be out of luck, but with 98 or ME you can change them.

ATI program has caused some problems for others, shut it down before playing.

 

[Castellon]

It is your CPU not the mother board.
You can PM jpd he is my resident expert on VIA driver problem. I have never used them since I am on Intel systems.

 

[Castellon]

Originally posted by jpd
Owen got it right. He doesn't have nor need to have the VIA drivers installed. The Asus A7N8X does indeed use the NVidia nForce chipset, and thus needs the nVidia unified driver set.

The Asus A7V8X (notice: a V instead of an N) uses a VIA chipset.

Ahh, thanks for the education, I thought they were associated with the AMD CPUs not the motherboard, since no one with an Intel CPU system has them.