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     mattius Rating: N/A |
I have a Asus 7700 AGP 3D Card. I am using Asus 29.80 drivers, (Based on Nvidia 29.80). I have used these for months with no problems. I also have the E-Dimensional 3D Glasses & am using the Nvidia 3D Driver. This morning I booted up as usual & browsed the web. I noticed that new 3D drivers, (30.82) were available. I d/l & installed these. However when i re-booted my system it went through the memory check as usual & then just as the windows flag disappeared it came up with the following error message. While initializing device IOS: Error: Real Mode System Memory allocation Failed I then booted again & received the same error. I then booted into Safe Mode which was OK. I then tried a normal boot again - Same Error. I booted into save mode & uninstalled both the main driver & the 3D Driver & set the driver to Standard Display Adaptor. My system then booted - albeit with only 16 colours & 640 x 480 resolution, (which I am currently in)! Every attempt to load either the Asus drivers or the Nvidia reference drivers cause the error to appear instead of booting into windows. I have restored my registry from yesterday, (which I luckily backed up), but this has failed to resolve the problem. Can any bright spark please help me sort this frustrating problem out! PLEASE! Running win98se, Athlon 1.4, 512mb Ram | ||
| Jim Rating: N/A |
did you try using detonator destroyer? There may be a conflict with the 29.80s and the 30.82s and with Win98 it should work well for you. Check out Guru3d.com and it should wipe your system clean so you can do a clean install of the 30.82 | ||
| mattius Rating: N/A |
Tried detonator destroyer & also manually removed all Nvidia & Asus registry entries. Also deleted all NVRS* files in Windows\System. This failed to work as well! Looks like a re-format is the only answer! | ||
| JamesMeinken Rating: N/A |
OK, here's the solution to this problem. I had the same thing happen to me. I am running Win98SE with an ASUS A7V333 motherboard and an ATI Radeon 9000 AGP video card. During boot-up I would get the message: "Real Mode System Memory Allocation Failed". Tells you a lot, eh? This has happened to me three times in the last 6 months. Twice I was able to use GoBack to rescue myself. This last time my GoBack history files had become corrupt so I had to figure this out on my own. There are various posts on this topic in Google but no solutions. Al least until now. When I would try to boot-up, I couldn't get into Windows. When I would re-boot I could only get into Safe Mode. Once I un-installed my ATI video drivers I could boot into Windows but only with a VGA screen with 16 colors and a 640x480 resolution. What to do? The problem lies not in the video card's drivers but with the 4in1 or AGP driver for your computer's motherboard. It has somehow become corrupt. Here's the fix: (1) Un-install your video card driver. Go to Add-Remove Programs in Control Panel to locate and un-install it. Re-boot. You are now in a VGA screen (a green one) with 16 colors and a 640x480 resolution. Sound and look familiar?? (2) Re-install your motherboard's 4in1 or AGP driver. You don't have to un-install this first as when you re-install it, it simply overwrites whatever files are present, if any. If you built your own computer this file is on the CD that came with your motherboard. If you bought a computer like a Dell or an HP it might be on one of the recovery disks that came with the computer. If you have no CD, you'll have to visit either your motherboard's website or your manufacturer's website (Dell people, have fun!) and look for it. After you re-install it, re-boot again (it'll probably tell you to anyway). (3) You might go to driverguide.com, register (FREE!) and then follow their search directions for the proper file. This is a Quest so have fun learning something new! Their download is free. Look under their Motherboard heading. (4) Once you get the file on your computer, make it 'read-only' so it won't become corrupt in the future. I have copied all my computer's driver files into a folder I named 'ASUS Drivers'. Your CD-ROM drive will not work in Safe Mode so it's important you have these files somewhere on your hard drive so if this happens again you'll be better prepared. (5) Once you've re-booted, then re-install your video card's driver. Have this one copied in the same folder on your computer too. Re-boot once again. Now you should have your familiar desktop back. Make it the way you like it and you'll be all set. Your icons will be out of whack but here's a solution for that. (6) Type 'Icon Restore v1.0' in Google and you will get a link to this file. The file is free. Install it. Then right-click on your 'My Computer' icon and you will have 2 new entries, 'Save Icon Layout' and 'Restore Icon Layout". Click the Save one and the next time your icons are all scrambled all you have to do is click on the Restore one and all will be well again. Hope this solves your problem! --- James |
