Any MoBo monitoring utilities?

[mEmENTOmORI]

Having troubles with the system. Started bout two weeks ago after no hardware/software alterations made. All kinda protection errors under windows, sometimes memory not found at boot time. I have two memory chips 128Mb each. When run on 128, I can load into windows, but not stable, hang-ups, prot errors etc.. When run on both memory modules, can't even load windows.

Memory and video is OK, I checked it on the other machine.

Any ideas what that can be? Could I fry the memory controller?

I remember having a "checkit" utility long time ago 4 DOS that was checking all the hardware. There should be somthing like this 4 windows now.

Thank's 4 your time.

[dugans]

Welcome to the forums!

Have you set the pc back to default speed and voltages? Thats the first thing I do when an overclocked rig acts up.

While I'm finding best oc on a given pc I usually end up corrupting the daylights out of the data on the hard drive at least once and then have to reinstall the os....

If you haven't read them ( I check through them again once in a while still too) there are Beginners' Guides on the first page HERE (http://www.overclockers.com/topiclist/index04.asp#BEGINNER GUIDES)

[mEmENTOmORI]

Yeah, I even tried it on 400Mhz. Same thing. Tried to reinstall the OS. XP kicks out with a protection error during instalation, ME hangs up when it comes to GUI part

[dugans]

Ouch.

Can you boot to a dos floppy?

What about fdisk? Could it be a partition problem?

I don't have, or know of any diagnostic apps that fit on a floppy anymore, but there are quite a few available on cd: boot up and run the diagnostics, etc.

Do you have another system you can test components in?

[mEmENTOmORI]

No problems in DOS. At least it was formating for about 20min and didn't hang up. Could u tell me the names of the diag progs, i'll try to run them from safe mode if it loads.
If not i'd probably have to burn an image cd to boot from it.

[mEmENTOmORI]

Sorry, didn't read your message till the end.

Yeah, i've checked probably every component encl. CPU, memory, video and HDD. Got to be smthng with the MoBo.

[dugans]

Clear CMOS data?
How about flashing the bios? Maybe there is an older one that will work?

I don't know WinME, so I don't know what possibilities you have there, but you could check MS site and see if there are any utilities on the cd; or you could browse the cd and look??? Don't know.

Did a quick search for diag utilities but no luck.

Did you try the good cpu in that mobo?

[mEmENTOmORI]

Yeah, I tried another proc, it had same problems. Didn't flash the BIOS, but I don't think it'd help - it was working fine before with the old one.

I downloaded that ontrack diag prog at work, but this b***h crashes even in safe mode, so I can't really test it.

That's cool, I just got the RMA # from the place where I'd bought it, so just gonna replace it. I'm pretty sure it's the MoBo.

Thanks for the help!