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Getting frustrated with XP/Acpi and Bios update
Hi everyone,
Iīve started to hate Epox and Microsoft recently. This is due following: Iīve had a stable system for almost one year now. It contains XP 1600+, Epox 8K9AI Motherboard with KT-400 chipset, 512 MB of PC 2700 (333) DDR, MSI GF460MX, 60 gb IBM Deskstar and Soundblaster Live Value. The motherboard has integrated LAN. I was using the Windows XP Pro. Everything went sweet until I decided to upgrade my GF to Radeon 9700 card. Installation was a piece of cake and I had no problems whatsoever. Then I noticed that 9700 was working only with AGP 4x and there wasnīt an option in bios to increase it to 8x. So I checked the Epox site (www.epox.com) and found that they had updated my MBīs bios several times. The newest version of bios (4/7/2003) promised to fix problems with AGP 4x/8x. So I downloaded it and flashed my bios with this new one using alt+f2 method. Flashing went correctly and I loaded the optimal setup in bios. Then I tried to start XP - the screen went blue and text appeared that XP had stopped my system down to protect the computer. I tried to start the system couple of times, but ended up with the same result. I tried to reinstall XP once to fix the problem, but that wouldnīt work either. I was busy at the time and didnīt put too much effort on the matter. I were also planning to buy a new system at the time. Now, little over a month later, I assembled a new pc. I installed my old 60 gb deskstar to it and copied the important files to my new pc, wich worked fine. Then I started to build another system from my old parts (with GF as graphics card). I thought that by formatting my old hard disk and with clean install of XP, everything should work out fine, but it didnīt. I booted the system with XP cd, formatted the HD and started to install XP. Everything went peachy until setup booted itself for the first time. Again the same blue screen with error reports appeared. Situation didnīt change with another startups. The error message is evyrytime the same: (The usual critical error texts) and then technical part: Stop: 0x0000007e (0xc0000005,0xf84ed29a,0xf894d180,0xf894ce80) Acpi.sys - address F84ed29A Base at F84e9000, Datestamp 3b7d8550 After this I started to take problem seriously and tried all things possible. I have: - Flashed the bios again with the latest 7/4/2003 version (the same as earlier) - Disabled every possible device from my system (Soundblaster, Com ports, LAN and USB devices) so only PS2 mouse, keyboard and GF are left. - The Acpi used to have IRQ 9 so I reserved it, forcing Acpi to use IRQ 11 - Turned all power saving off from bios - Tried the safe mode in startup None of these helped. Error message stays the same. I even tried the system with an older HD with Windows Me installed. It loaded normally and windows started to install new devices - until it found Bios/ACPI drivers and tried to install them. After finishing installation Me found Bios/ACPI again and installed the drivers for it again, and so on until the system hanged. The same happened with every new startup. Driver installation was automatic so I couldnīt prevent it. I donīt know what to do now. The bios version 4/7/2003 is still the latest on Epoxīs homepage, so it should be working correctly? Thank you in advance, Joni |
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Jouni Ruoska wrote:
Hi everyone, Iīve started to hate Epox and Microsoft recently. This is due following: Iīve had a stable system for almost one year now. It contains XP 1600+, Epox 8K9AI Motherboard with KT-400 chipset, 512 MB of PC 2700 (333) DDR, MSI GF460MX, 60 gb IBM Deskstar and Soundblaster Live Value. The motherboard has integrated LAN. I was using the Windows XP Pro. Everything went sweet until I decided to upgrade my GF to Radeon 9700 card. Installation was a piece of cake and I had no problems whatsoever. Then I noticed that 9700 was working only with AGP 4x and there wasnīt an option in bios to increase it to 8x. So I checked the Epox site (www.epox.com) and found that they had updated my MBīs bios several times. The newest version of bios (4/7/2003) promised to fix problems with AGP 4x/8x. So I downloaded it and flashed my bios with this new one using alt+f2 method. Go back to the earlier bios. 4X to 8X AGP will never be seen in use. Check out some benchmarks on this, it's not worth even flashing a bios to get 8X support! -- Stacey |
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Thanks guys for trying, but Iīve tried with three different bios
versions (8KA93407, 8KA93321 and 8KA93212) now and the problem has stayed the same. So the bios propably isnīt causing the crashes? Goddamit, do I have to buy old Windows version like 98 without this stinkin ACPI to get my PC running?!?! Anyway, thanks again for trying - any new guesses? Joni Go back to the earlier bios. 4X to 8X AGP will never be seen in use. Check out some benchmarks on this, it's not worth even flashing a bios to get 8X support! |
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