I've tried everything I can think of to fix the problem with no luck. A friend told me that this is the place with all the answers so here goes. I'm running an Athlon Tbird 900 on an Abit KT7A-Raid motherboard. My video card is the prophet II mx 64M, sound card is the SB Live. What I've tried thus far is upgrading my bios to the latest version, upgrading the via chipset drivers for my motherboard, installing the latest drivers for both video and sound card, dropping the apature size to 64M, and finally dropping to 2x agp. All this and I'm still crashing. Thanks in advance for ne help.
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Machine keeps crashing
- Thread starter boxatoys
- Start date
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- Jan 23, 2001
How are your temps?
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- Feb 23, 2001
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- NEW HAMPSHIRE
apperture should be half of memory or 32 and what about those temps???
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- Apr 30, 2001
Via is picky about where you put your PCI cards. Many of them share IRQs with each other. Maybe you are getting a conflict. Go to www.viahardware.com. There is a KT7A section that tells you where to put the cards for least conflicts. My KT7A was acting funky. I switched my cards around and its working smooth now.
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- Apr 23, 2001
On your mobo CD there is a utility called Via Hardware Monitor.. install that
Can you give us an idea when it crashes / what you are doing when it does crash? Crash is just a very vague term, more specifics will help us understand what is causing it.
BTW, are you overclocking anything (if you don't know, then the answer is probably, no).
BTW, are you overclocking anything (if you don't know, then the answer is probably, no).
- Thread Starter
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Everything causes a crash. I start the machine and while it's starting some of the progs in the startup it freezes and reboots itself. I'm surfing the web, go to move the mouse and bang it's frozen and reboots itself. I'm playing D2, lasts for about 5 minutes, then it freezes, I have to hard reboot. It's nothing specific, but I'm pretty sure that it's the Video Card. I have another agp card that I am going to try this weekend. I'll post my findings.
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you can always make sure your BIOS is optimized check www.rojakpot.com and go through there bios guide.
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Mine was doing the same thing, it was my sound card. I enabled an irq sharing setting under SB 16 Emulation settings in device manager. I can't remember exactly what it was called and I am at work, so I can't look. Lil' help, if anyone knows what I'm talking about. It fixed it right up.
- Thread Starter
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It was the conflict between my network card and my usb ports. I have an adapter to make my usb mouse into a ps2 mouse and that's fixed the problem. I just need to fix the usb port now so I can put my mouse back on usb. I'm just glad that it was found. Thanks for the help everyone.
