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- Jan 4, 2001
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- Northern VA
I've got an A7V8x (KT400) board that is having some issues with the video. When I'm nearly done with the Win2k install, the grahpics go nutty and the system (when I can actually still see it) seems to lock.
Here's the deal:
This board is a newegg refurb. It was 30 bucks, and has firewire, usb2, gigabit lan, SATA RAid/IDE raid, and 6ch sound. So, for 30 bucks, it's quite a steal.
I'm trying to test the board, verify it works before the 15 day period is up.
I've tried twice now to install win2k with the same problem as above.
With a GF2MX, the screen would turn into a pattern of verticle lines.
With an 8500DV the screen turned pink/black/and grey, kinda like if you had set "high contrast" in your display themes in windows.
I'm too tired right now to set the board back up, but I plan to test with a different PSU and a PCI grahpics card, as well as actually mounting the board in a case.
Doing this I should be able to eliminate the following:
AGP slot is bad (if pci works fine)
Board needs proper grounding in case (if mounting helps)
Cheesy PSU I was using could take it (if other cheesy PSU helps!)
or...the board is defective.
I'm posting here because until then I'd like to know if this is a common problem with these boards. The board runs perfectly aside from this. It boots right up, detects everything, but has trouble during the Win2k install.
I'm just wondering if anyone with this board has experienced anything similar and if they were able to fix the problem.
Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to spend more time with it. The thing is, I don't wanna give up on this board too quickly because it was such a good deal...sure I could get my money back, but I'd not have the board!
The bad news is, most of my "good" hardware is in use...between my main rig, 2 servers, and handing down many things to my little sister, I'm kinda limited on what I can toss at this thing without downtime or digging into functional systems. As a result, I probably won't have much of a chance to try a different CPU or RAM. (Currently using a 1.4 tbird and 256mb Crucial PC2100)
So, I'll cross my fingers this weekend. But in the meantime, if anyone has experienced something simliar with this board, please let me know!
Here's the deal:
This board is a newegg refurb. It was 30 bucks, and has firewire, usb2, gigabit lan, SATA RAid/IDE raid, and 6ch sound. So, for 30 bucks, it's quite a steal.
I'm trying to test the board, verify it works before the 15 day period is up.
I've tried twice now to install win2k with the same problem as above.
With a GF2MX, the screen would turn into a pattern of verticle lines.
With an 8500DV the screen turned pink/black/and grey, kinda like if you had set "high contrast" in your display themes in windows.
I'm too tired right now to set the board back up, but I plan to test with a different PSU and a PCI grahpics card, as well as actually mounting the board in a case.
Doing this I should be able to eliminate the following:
AGP slot is bad (if pci works fine)
Board needs proper grounding in case (if mounting helps)
Cheesy PSU I was using could take it (if other cheesy PSU helps!)
or...the board is defective.
I'm posting here because until then I'd like to know if this is a common problem with these boards. The board runs perfectly aside from this. It boots right up, detects everything, but has trouble during the Win2k install.
I'm just wondering if anyone with this board has experienced anything similar and if they were able to fix the problem.
Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to spend more time with it. The thing is, I don't wanna give up on this board too quickly because it was such a good deal...sure I could get my money back, but I'd not have the board!
The bad news is, most of my "good" hardware is in use...between my main rig, 2 servers, and handing down many things to my little sister, I'm kinda limited on what I can toss at this thing without downtime or digging into functional systems. As a result, I probably won't have much of a chance to try a different CPU or RAM. (Currently using a 1.4 tbird and 256mb Crucial PC2100)
So, I'll cross my fingers this weekend. But in the meantime, if anyone has experienced something simliar with this board, please let me know!