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new mother board problems

I have recently installed a new motherboard. It is a VA-503+ from First International Computer. It has an AMD-K2/500 processor. Everything went good until I fired it with my old drive. It boots o.k. but just after the WIN95 splash screen I get the following, " While initializing device IOS:
Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer."
I put in a new drive and loaded a fresh install of 95 (version b) and I got the very same error. I set up the board just as the instructions said to. Am I screwed?

hes

Look here for the MB settings AMD recommends for the FIC VA-503+ and the K6-2 500.
I have mine set up this and everything runs great

hes

Forgot the link :)

http://www1.amd.com/K6/item/1,1135,235,00.html

oldgreyguy

pay close attention to the memory settings, if possible set them to default

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rayt333

Forgot to mention but that is a patch you can download to fix it at the above link but
Please note that this patch will not resolve issues associated with any other versions of Windows 95 other than the OEM SR2 version. If you have any other version other than OEM SR2 then you will have to contact AMD for futher support.

This is not a problem if you upgrade to Win98

thoffman

There's a MS Knowledge Base article on this as well at http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q192/8/41.ASP that makes it sound like it helps ALL versions of Win95. It's probably the same patch as the one on AMD's site.

pete2help

AMD K6-2 350 Cpu's or higher has been know to cause IOS errors you can get the fix at AMD or Microsoft Website.