PLEASE HELP!! I CAN NOT GET MY MACHINE TO RUN STABLE!!!!!

[twinturbo]

OK, A couple of months ago I upgraded to a Abit KT7A-Raid board with a T-bird 1.2ghz 266 and 256 mb of Crucial. I also have a Sound Blaster Live X-Gamer 5.1, Radeon 64mb, Kingston NIC, SupraMax modem, 6x Sony DVD, and a HP CD-RW. It was running fine till I decided to blow away the hard drive with a fresh install of ME. I installed ALL the latest drivers for every card and the latest BIOS update has been used. Well ever since I've done the fresh install it will everyonce in a while just freeze up. And it never happens at the same time, or even doing the samething. The freeze up is totally random.


I've went to PAUL's FAQ's on the KT7 line of motherboards and have tryed all the things to make my system stable to NO LUCK. I have even blown it away 5 times and it will still lock up. I have taken ALL the cards out accept the vital ones (ie.. video, nic) during install and still nothing. HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[twinturbo]

OH yeah, if artic silver thermal compoud is touching any of the the L1 bridges would that have a effect? When I put it on some of the artic had touch a L1 bridge, but I wiped it off. You know that stuff is hard to get off so....maybe its still touching?

[ReTiCuLeX]

Yea that can cause affect,having artic silver on the cpu core is where it should be no where else not on any bridges.Wipe it off with some nail polish remover or alchol.Btw i get alot of random lock ups like you and blue screens are Internet explorer illigale operations.

[merlins_wraith]

Chances are that the AS is not the reason for your problem. AS is only conductive under extreme pressure, more than you encounter on a heatsink clip (there are several old threads about this subject). Moreover, I would love to help but need more specifics on your system. Specifically, what kind of temps are you running? What power supply are you running and at what wattage? How many extra fans etc are you running off of that power supply?

One more note here: do you have any copies of other operating systems to try? Not being able to tell you exactly what the problem may be, I would suggest trying say w98 if you have it and see if your setup can be stable.

If you could offer more details about your lockups I would be happy to offer further assistance.

[Ferg]

Sounds to me like some of the drivers may be currupted or the wrong drivers for your equipment. I would go to as many of the website of the manufacters of your pci cards as possible and download their drivers. Also did you make any bois changes, especially any video changes. Make sure the AGP aperture size is set to at most half of your total ram, so for you 128 or 64.

[Me]

I would have to agree with the drivers being corrupt. I noticed on my computer that win98se and the registry will in fact become corrupt causing explorer errors. I now usually get them when i browse 10-20 min of clicking, Which will cause my explorer to close. I think its all the installing and removeing files of the HDD. I heard that there is a good program that norton makes to uninstall programs but i forgot the name. I know that its alot better then windows version.

[twinturbo]

My temps at idle are around 36 degrees celsius and get up to no more than 41-42 under full load. I also have a Antec 400w power supply. It is the one that has the P4 connectors and is AMD and INTEL certified. I have 5 extra fans in the case so cooling is no issue. Before I rebuilt my system I was running W98 (which was upgraded to ME). Now I am just trying to install ME by itself. I hope this helps

And I do have ALL the latest drivers for EVERY card in my system.

[AMDGuy]

More than likely you've got a driver conflict some where. One thing you can try is to delete all the hardware under "Device Manaager" and reinstall it.

[JimmyG]

Have you tried running without everything except the video card and CD ROM? If it runs stable in that configuration, then add cards one at a time until it stops running stable. If it won't run stable in the minimum configuration, then suspect your video card, then the cpu, then the mobo.

[Robbie]

TRY THIS it worked for me. Load FAIL SAFE in the bios and restart. then turn everything back on one by one. It totally worked for me.


Good luck

Rob

[youthemandan]

Why you might be getting those errors is because of a conflict with the 128 bit secruity from explorer. My friend had to re-install windows 4 times before he finnally relized that was the problem. This is help for the guy who gets the blue screen when surfing.

[The Stickie]

mmmh could also be some strange irq conflict that causes driver conflicts... that at least explains why it happens only in Me: it handles irq very diferently then 98se... try uninstalling all cards and ad them one by one until you have a conflict, then swapand wap and swap until the conflict is solved nd continue... it might take some time

oh yes: please check EVERY cable and connector inside your case first: are they attached well, and is every cable 100% ok???

[Sketch]

Robbie (Jul 12, 2001 09:57 p.m.):
TRY THIS it worked for me. Load FAIL SAFE in the bios and restart. then turn everything back on one by one. It totally worked for me.


Good luck

Rob

I agree with Rob, but I would flash to the WW bios, seeing that it seems to be the most stable, and make adjustments one by one.

[Paul.K]

Sorry about all your troubles with your board. However I bougth an Abit Kt7a non raid mainboard and also had very bad instablilty issues. The thing would lock up at random occasions it would p******** me o**. I too flash the bios to the lastest but it didnt take and I had to return the board. Now my pc is running on an Iwill KK266R mobo with great stability. By the way I'm running Win 98Se. I also just recieved a new board from Abit and I hope my brother will not be cursed by instability issues.

My spec is

AMD Athlon 1.4@1.51
Iwill KK266R
etc...

Good luck