Up & runnin Again.. or is it?

~~HawK~~ · Mar 1, 2004, 03:19 AM

The last weeks my system was starting to act funny, momentary halts or slowness, then losing its bios setting, stop-errors while booting, and last saturday morning no booting at all

RIP Shuttle

and in need for a new Mobo.... and fast couse i sold my 2nd sytem, and can't live without a computer

Small town where I live & only one Compu shop and was to sick to travel to another town
their AMD Mobo choises? Asrock with Sis-chipset, or an Asus A7V8X or an A7N8X-X, well I took the last one
Installation of parts went well, but had while booting a stop error, but that should be no problem since it is a NV chip set, and my installed W2000 was installed on Via, so a new windows was in order..
my usuall boot floppy would not start the CD-drivers, and the spare floppy had the same errors?? (DVD or NV problem?)

well to make a short story longer, the only bootable CD that was going was the winXP/sp1 I was keeping untill XPsp2 was out.. So XP it is...

But here is my problem with the board: i'm noticing artifacts (stripes and misformed characters) while in bios start up/screen
but it goes away as soon as Windows takes over, and runnin exellent i might add

but after restarting (cold or warm) they appear again, could this be a memory problem?

New System:
MoBo = Asus A7N8X-X 400 NV drivers: 3.13
PSU = Q-tec 550 watt
mem = 1x 512 mb org. Samsung PC2700 @166 x2
Cpu = Amd Athlon 2400xp @ fsb 266
HD = WD- 800JB 80Gb - Seagate Barracuda ATA-IV 80Gb
Vid = Ati9700 driver: Cat 3.10
OS = WinXP sp1 DX9b (all patched up)
DVD-rw, CD-rw, DVD-r
Sound = Hercules FortissimoIII 7.1

mainman · Mar 1, 2004, 03:24 AM

Well bud, my bet is also on memory related prob,but do you have the latest bios installed? It could sound stupid bud i had the same problem with an older system and i fixed it with a bios update.

~~HawK~~ · Mar 1, 2004, 03:31 AM

Well the first thing I did was reset the bios with the same result
then flashed the newest bios i found for this Mobo: rev. 1006, which i flashed with no problem, i did correct the CPU info XP2400+ but it kept artifacting.

mainman · Mar 1, 2004, 04:16 AM

Well bud, if ya get the change to test ya memory thats what i would do. Seems it may be memory related.

~~HawK~~ · Mar 1, 2004, 05:43 AM

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Originally posted by mainman
Well bud, if ya get the change to test ya memory thats what i would do. Seems it may be memory related.

but then i would prob. crash in windows too..
was reading on the net that Asus used 2.9v batterys on the A7N8X series, and alot of problem came with Samsung mem., so will try other batt.

~~HawK~~ · Mar 5, 2004, 01:41 AM

Well after trying 2 other A7n8x-x 's , my system & Asus is prob. not a good combination

the one i got runnin, was so slow 1780mb/s mem readspeed on pc2700 !!?? it was actually slower with Bmarks then the shuttle on a amd1600xp !!
So I'm back on the old (not so trusty anymore) Shuttle AK32a got it runnin again, 2pci slots dont work anymore, but a new batt. did the trick (for now), installed winXPsp1 (picky W2000 refused to)
So thanks for ALL the help/advise you all gave me....

good to learn who your friends are, when you are having trouble..

SaberZ · Mar 5, 2004, 02:04 AM

It probably happens on cold boot. If you leave the system running for a few hours and do a reboot does that still occur? I used to get that on my Abit NF7-S v2 board on a cold boot, but when the pc was left on and i rebooted never happened. Also check to make sure everything is seated 100% too .