Is is the BIOS or the system board?

Hi. I have a pc manufactued by a deceased company named Quantex. The pc has a MSI MS-6199VA
system board with W6199VAFD v3.3 121799 Bios, an Intel P6C (Coppermine) Pentium III 733Mhz
processor and a VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset.
I have been having some trouble with the pc over the last month. It has an nVidia GeForce 256 video
card and around the middle of October I updated my install of Norton SystemWorks from NSW 2002 to
NSW 2003 as well as updating the nVidia drivers to the latest version (40.72). Things have not been the
same since. I started getting random system freezes and 0D or 0E Fata Exceptions as Windows 98SE
was starting to initialize and display the desktop and Windows signon. I was always able to restart in
Safe Mode, but not always able to get around the Fatal Exception in normal mode.
Over the course of the next month, the pc never really attained stability. Sometimes it ran fine for a while,
then would just freeze. I started backing up more often and got PowerQuest Drive Image for disaster
recovery purposes. I already had a tape drive, but sometimes the tape backup software would
freeze/stop functioning in the middle of a backup.
I then got a larger hard drive, so that I do Drive Image backups to HDD rather than CD-RW. I got an
ATA-100 80 Gb drive but did not yet install it.
This past week I checked your website to see if I could find any additional information about my BIOS
and if it would support the new hard drive. I saw that I was on v3.3 and that you have v3.5. It also
appeared to me that v3.5 was needed for the new drive. It also seemed to me that my issues could be
hardware (ie, system board) related.
Anyway, I used your v3.5 BIOS update utility to backup my existing BIOS. Double checked my system
board and chipset and then tried the v3.5 update. The flash update did not write completely (out of the
two full rows of white progress boxes around 6 of them were blue). I restored the original bios and
regained some function. However, I can no longer even get through the CMOS setup without the pc
freezing.
I have reseated all cards and the processor as well as trying only one memory chip at a time. Nothing
has changed the behavior. I even reflashed the v3.5 BIOS, this time with a clean update (all white
progress boxes). Still no stability.
I am just looking for some advice. It my system board gone? Was it going or did I destroy it with the bios
update? Since my original equipment manufacter is no longer in business I have nowhere to go for
hardware support. Is it possible to find a replacement system board or better to cut my losses and get a
new pc. I am fairly pc competent but not to the point where I would swap out a system board on my own.
Vic

On Friday I decided to take everything apart; including removing the system board and then put it all back together. Believe it or not, without any repairs since I last replied in this forum, my pc is now somewhat revived. It appears as though my problem might have been that the processor was not completely seated in the slot. Does that make sense? The freezing during CMOS setup or OS startup has completely disappeared.
There are still some stability problems and there also appears to be a BIOS issue.
I think the stability problems are from corrupt OS files (Win98 SE) and I am thinking the only recovery for that is to reinstall. Nothing like a perfect opportunity to move this hardware to Windows 2000.
Now for the BIOS question. This board is an MS-6199VA. The BIOS is W6199VMS v3.5 100200 with BIOS ID of 01/01/2000-692-596-W977-2A6LGM4BC-00. At the tail end of the BIOS startup I get the following..
CMOS Checksum error - Defaults loaded.
Warning! CPU has been changed.
Please re-enter CPU settings in the CMOS setup and remember to save before quit.
Press F1 to continue or DEL to enter CMOS setup
I have gone through all the CMOS setup options, set them, changed some; like disabling a serial port and setting up a power on password, and save them. Yet I still get this message every time.
Other than halting the startup until I press F1 or DEL there seems to be no other negatives. Am I missing something or is there a storm coming?
Vic

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