I've been reading the threads here for years, and even made most of my computer parts purchases based on what I've read here.
But around christmas, I had a fan header fail on my Epox board, which cooked the CPU and the board.
With no net access, I went to my local PC store, and got talked into buying the A7N8X. They both said they were running the same board and it was a "Dreamboard".
When I built my Epox rig, DDR was new, and I went with 2 of the Crucial 256 meg PC2100 sticks.
I have a MSI Ti-4200 128 meg AGP vid card, and a 350 watt power supply. (both new)
I'm running the xp2100+ CPU, a WD 100gig HDD, and a Fireball 20 gig Quatum.
My problem is, when I set up these componants together, I get tons of problems.
Games that Flash like lighting striking the horizon, memory test failures, The monitor wont fire up, I have apps that just close, (ones that use DirectX drivers). And the great BSOD. The worst being told that "the video card couldnt complete a write process, check for newer drivers" I'm running the newest drivers and have tried the betas, the next version older, you name it.
Am I just running something that isnt compatable with my new board?
Any help would be great, and forgive my "Newbie-ism".
(ps, I havent tried the 2/26/03 1002 final bios)
C-ya, Jimbo.
But around christmas, I had a fan header fail on my Epox board, which cooked the CPU and the board.
With no net access, I went to my local PC store, and got talked into buying the A7N8X. They both said they were running the same board and it was a "Dreamboard".
When I built my Epox rig, DDR was new, and I went with 2 of the Crucial 256 meg PC2100 sticks.
I have a MSI Ti-4200 128 meg AGP vid card, and a 350 watt power supply. (both new)
I'm running the xp2100+ CPU, a WD 100gig HDD, and a Fireball 20 gig Quatum.
My problem is, when I set up these componants together, I get tons of problems.
Games that Flash like lighting striking the horizon, memory test failures, The monitor wont fire up, I have apps that just close, (ones that use DirectX drivers). And the great BSOD. The worst being told that "the video card couldnt complete a write process, check for newer drivers" I'm running the newest drivers and have tried the betas, the next version older, you name it.
Am I just running something that isnt compatable with my new board?
Any help would be great, and forgive my "Newbie-ism".
(ps, I havent tried the 2/26/03 1002 final bios)
C-ya, Jimbo.