hello guys,
I need some advice... Ok here goes...
I need to get a motherboard that has all is all intergrated. The reason is ...I will be sending this board to my Mom which has little to none experience with pc building. So I will have to walk her through the installation proccess (she does have another pc).
She has a complete pc that I shipped to her before christmas (x-mas gift) and now it keeps locking up under win98 and winXP.
The system is as the following...
Abit Kt7a-raid motherboard (bios=ww)
256 mb of infeneon 133mhz Sdram (1 chip)
40 gb Maxtor hd (ata 100)
US Robitics Winmodem (PCI)
Soundblaster AWE 64 (ISA)
Enermax whisper power supply (350 watt)
Ati Xpert 128 video (PCI)
and of course the other stuff...(floppy..cd-rom....etc.)
The problem with that current setup is that is keeps locking up under win98 and win XP. When I first shipped the pc out it had a Evil King Voodoo3 w/tv out video card (AGP) and Win98. It worked fine when it left here but now it has problems. She installed WinXp over 98 to see if this would solve any problems. During the compatibiliy test it said that the 3fdx might have some problems and she installed it anyway..After XP was loaded and the problems were still there she thought that maybe the video was the problem...so she got the Xpert card and the same results followed.
What I have done to help here it made sure that there was no conflicts and made sure that there was no deviced with problems..Under WinXp. all the drivers appeared to be loaded. I even had her updated all the drivers. I flashed the bios back down to WW (this use to be my mobo) which is what I ran with it and had no problems. I followed a guide on how to place the cards in order so nothing will share any IRQ's. I had her set the fail-safe defualts in the bios and made sure that the CPU speed was correct. I made her double check the jumper on the hard drive which was correct. I made sure that all the old driver were all the way unistalled (from old video card). I tried to load the the latest 4-in-1 drivers for Xp...(the hard drive has be reformatted since then and is not running any 4-in-1 drivers)....
This pc even locks up when running through scan disk....the problem seems to happen on its own (nothing triggers it)
It is weird cause she ran Sandra soft's system benchmark all the way through with out locking up.
I would say it locks up every 15 mins or sometimes she can go longer...
Anyone have any Ideas or can recommend a good all-in-1 motherboard?
due to the nature of this thread I am going to copy parts of this thread in to the "Motherboard" thread to see if anyone can help me resolve the problem..
Thanks for reading this post!
I need some advice... Ok here goes...
I need to get a motherboard that has all is all intergrated. The reason is ...I will be sending this board to my Mom which has little to none experience with pc building. So I will have to walk her through the installation proccess (she does have another pc).
She has a complete pc that I shipped to her before christmas (x-mas gift) and now it keeps locking up under win98 and winXP.
The system is as the following...
Abit Kt7a-raid motherboard (bios=ww)
256 mb of infeneon 133mhz Sdram (1 chip)
40 gb Maxtor hd (ata 100)
US Robitics Winmodem (PCI)
Soundblaster AWE 64 (ISA)
Enermax whisper power supply (350 watt)
Ati Xpert 128 video (PCI)
and of course the other stuff...(floppy..cd-rom....etc.)
The problem with that current setup is that is keeps locking up under win98 and win XP. When I first shipped the pc out it had a Evil King Voodoo3 w/tv out video card (AGP) and Win98. It worked fine when it left here but now it has problems. She installed WinXp over 98 to see if this would solve any problems. During the compatibiliy test it said that the 3fdx might have some problems and she installed it anyway..After XP was loaded and the problems were still there she thought that maybe the video was the problem...so she got the Xpert card and the same results followed.
What I have done to help here it made sure that there was no conflicts and made sure that there was no deviced with problems..Under WinXp. all the drivers appeared to be loaded. I even had her updated all the drivers. I flashed the bios back down to WW (this use to be my mobo) which is what I ran with it and had no problems. I followed a guide on how to place the cards in order so nothing will share any IRQ's. I had her set the fail-safe defualts in the bios and made sure that the CPU speed was correct. I made her double check the jumper on the hard drive which was correct. I made sure that all the old driver were all the way unistalled (from old video card). I tried to load the the latest 4-in-1 drivers for Xp...(the hard drive has be reformatted since then and is not running any 4-in-1 drivers)....
This pc even locks up when running through scan disk....the problem seems to happen on its own (nothing triggers it)
It is weird cause she ran Sandra soft's system benchmark all the way through with out locking up.
I would say it locks up every 15 mins or sometimes she can go longer...
Anyone have any Ideas or can recommend a good all-in-1 motherboard?
due to the nature of this thread I am going to copy parts of this thread in to the "Motherboard" thread to see if anyone can help me resolve the problem..
Thanks for reading this post!
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