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Hells trouble with P4P800-E deuxe
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I recently built my new little setup and started having dramas from the onset upon advice from smart bunnies here i started again Reseated ram and ran memtest without errors cleared cmos restored all bios defaults formatted HD and reinstalled windows now all seemed happy for a short while until my system froze - i was watching tv playing freecell and msn messenger was running thats it .. i hit the reset button(as you do when 3 finger salute does nothing) when it reset just after the ram test there was allsorts of garbled junk down the bottom of the black screen with the american megatrends logo then it came up with INS pressed select F1 to enter setup F2 to load setup defaults i hit F2 which must have reset bios defaults as i got the Ai splash screen i was hoping my original dramas were OS related but i was wrong does this new drama hint that i may have a problem with the motherboard ?? System is Win 98-se (all updates done - i got that far) P4P800-E Deluxe (bios 1001.004 - original) P4 2.8 E Some cheap ATI radeon vid card lite on dvd rom lite on dvd-rw seagate 80g Thanks for suggestions |
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On 5-Sep-2004, "Jaz" wrote: HELP!!! I recently built my new little setup and started having dramas from the onset upon advice from smart bunnies here i started again Reseated ram and ran memtest without errors cleared cmos restored all bios defaults formatted HD and reinstalled windows now all seemed happy for a short while until my system froze - i was watching tv playing freecell and msn messenger was running thats it .. i hit the reset button(as you do when 3 finger salute does nothing) when it reset just after the ram test there was allsorts of garbled junk down the bottom of the black screen with the american megatrends logo then it came up with INS pressed select F1 to enter setup F2 to load setup defaults i hit F2 which must have reset bios defaults as i got the Ai splash screen i was hoping my original dramas were OS related but i was wrong does this new drama hint that i may have a problem with the motherboard ?? System is Win 98-se (all updates done - i got that far) P4P800-E Deluxe (bios 1001.004 - original) P4 2.8 E Some cheap ATI radeon vid card lite on dvd rom lite on dvd-rw seagate 80g Thanks for suggestions My suggestion would be to update the BIOS to 1002. The latest BIOS has better support for the Prescott Chip (At least I think that is what the "E" denotes, I can't remember off the top of my head, so forgive me if I am wrong.) This would be my only suggestion as my P4P800-E Del is still in its box waiting for a processor to turn up, so have not had time to experiment myself yet. As for how to flash a BIOS, I'll leave that upto the experts on this forum. Hope you get it all cleared up soon Rik |
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As for how to flash a BIOS, I'll leave that upto the experts on this forum. Hope you get it all cleared up soon Rik Hi, go get the new 1003.001 bios (ftp.asuscom.de) and let us know - in case of trouble - which ram you are using. Niclaas |
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"Jaz" wrote in message ... System is Win 98-se (all updates done - i got that far) 1) Here is your biggest problem right here. I recommend Windows 2000 Pro instead, with SP4, it's stability is far and beyond that of Win98se, and no XPSP2 issues. 2) Get a handle on BIOS settings; they can make or break any system, especially critical in case you want to overclock: http://www.adriansrojakpot.com/Speed...uide_Index.htm And flash it to the latest of course. 3) You need to start with good components, especially: stable RAM, quality power supply, stable video card, have good cooling/air flow, and of course update all drivers. |
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BTW, this particular problem seems video
card related. I would start by disabling video shadowing, and cacheing of video bios, in your bios settings. They don't really help performance in Windows, and can cause more problems than they are worth. "Raymond" wrote in message news:dON_c.2739$x12.217@trnddc05... "Jaz" wrote in message ... System is Win 98-se (all updates done - i got that far) 1) Here is your biggest problem right here. I recommend Windows 2000 Pro instead, with SP4, it's stability is far and beyond that of Win98se, and no XPSP2 issues. 2) Get a handle on BIOS settings; they can make or break any system, especially critical in case you want to overclock: http://www.adriansrojakpot.com/Speed...uide_Index.htm And flash it to the latest of course. 3) You need to start with good components, especially: stable RAM, quality power supply, stable video card, have good cooling/air flow, and of course update all drivers. |
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im tempted to disagree on the grounds that the video card wouldnt effect the
system when its ripping a dvd and nothing more would it ??? either way i dont have those settings in the bios that i can see .. its a cheap card .. maybe it doesnt do it ?? there again its a cheap card and your probably right .. but i dont know how to fix it ! Raymond wrote in message news:qSN_c.2740$x12.994@trnddc05... BTW, this particular problem seems video card related. I would start by disabling video shadowing, and cacheing of video bios, in your bios settings. They don't really help performance in Windows, and can cause more problems than they are worth. "Raymond" wrote in message news:dON_c.2739$x12.217@trnddc05... "Jaz" wrote in message ... System is Win 98-se (all updates done - i got that far) 1) Here is your biggest problem right here. I recommend Windows 2000 Pro instead, with SP4, it's stability is far and beyond that of Win98se, and no XPSP2 issues. 2) Get a handle on BIOS settings; they can make or break any system, especially critical in case you want to overclock: http://www.adriansrojakpot.com/Speed...uide_Index.htm And flash it to the latest of course. 3) You need to start with good components, especially: stable RAM, quality power supply, stable video card, have good cooling/air flow, and of course update all drivers. |
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"Jaz" wrote in message ... im tempted to disagree on the grounds that the video card wouldnt effect the system when its ripping a dvd and nothing more would it ??? That's not what you said in your original post. either way i dont have those settings in the bios that i can see .. its a cheap card .. maybe it doesnt do it ?? there again its a cheap card and your probably right .. but i dont know how to fix it ! They're BIOS settings, they should be there regardless of the video card used. The video card is the main suspect here so it's worth changing those settings to more neutral. Are you sure your video card is compatible with the motherboard? This high-end m/b is not compatible with some cheap very old AGP cards. There should be something about this in your m/b manual. Also, like I said, the other usual suspects are RAM, and power supply. And having a stable OS helps as well, though this particular problem seems more like a hardware/BIOS issue to me, since you had a garbled screen even before getting into Windows. |
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