OK, here is my issue...and I have no idea how to fix this at this point.
I am running my below NEW rig. Playing Battlefield 1942 online...and I crash to desktop. So I think...game issue, or video driver issue. So I update my ATI Catalyst driver from 3.7 to 3.8, then 3.10...still crashing on all three. So I drop my overclock from 2GHz back to 1700, then down to the stock 1.4Ghz of the 2100+ (no OC at this point).
Still crashing.
Then I think, it must be the game. So I reload Prime 95 and start the stress test, it does not even pass TEST 1 - ie I have an immediate issue and am not overclocked at all. So I am now thinking Memory issue. I am running my Kingston on "optimal" in BIOS - it is set at 2-2-2-6. I run memtest86 on it overnight, and it runs all night with zero issues, so it appears fine.
But I still crash Prime 95 immediately.
Now even BETTER - my 2100+ XP CPU is a revision B Thoroughbred that I pulled out of my KT7-RAID...and I had it overclocked on my KT7-RAID board at 2GHz with NO ISSUES running Prime 95 for 24 hours. I ran it this way for the last 3 months. So I am not thinking it is the CPU either.
FYI I also reinstalled Windows Home - so it is fresh on my WD HDD. At this point, the only absolutely NEW pieces in my current rig (stuff I did not run in my old box) are my Kingston RAM, and my Motherboard.
RAM tested out on memtest86 - is there another way to see if it is crashing me?
Motherboard - is there any way to determine if I somehow have an issue here?
Also - I am not yet overly familiar with the NF7-S BIOS settings, and I have the BIOS the board came with loaded...I have not flashed a new BIOS at all. I got the board from NewEgg at Christmas, and the only driver updates I have performed are the NVidia nforce driver updates...I crashed before AND after these as well...so they are not it.
Any ideas? And thanks ahead of time.
I am running my below NEW rig. Playing Battlefield 1942 online...and I crash to desktop. So I think...game issue, or video driver issue. So I update my ATI Catalyst driver from 3.7 to 3.8, then 3.10...still crashing on all three. So I drop my overclock from 2GHz back to 1700, then down to the stock 1.4Ghz of the 2100+ (no OC at this point).
Still crashing.
Then I think, it must be the game. So I reload Prime 95 and start the stress test, it does not even pass TEST 1 - ie I have an immediate issue and am not overclocked at all. So I am now thinking Memory issue. I am running my Kingston on "optimal" in BIOS - it is set at 2-2-2-6. I run memtest86 on it overnight, and it runs all night with zero issues, so it appears fine.
But I still crash Prime 95 immediately.
Now even BETTER - my 2100+ XP CPU is a revision B Thoroughbred that I pulled out of my KT7-RAID...and I had it overclocked on my KT7-RAID board at 2GHz with NO ISSUES running Prime 95 for 24 hours. I ran it this way for the last 3 months. So I am not thinking it is the CPU either.
FYI I also reinstalled Windows Home - so it is fresh on my WD HDD. At this point, the only absolutely NEW pieces in my current rig (stuff I did not run in my old box) are my Kingston RAM, and my Motherboard.
RAM tested out on memtest86 - is there another way to see if it is crashing me?
Motherboard - is there any way to determine if I somehow have an issue here?
Also - I am not yet overly familiar with the NF7-S BIOS settings, and I have the BIOS the board came with loaded...I have not flashed a new BIOS at all. I got the board from NewEgg at Christmas, and the only driver updates I have performed are the NVidia nforce driver updates...I crashed before AND after these as well...so they are not it.
Any ideas? And thanks ahead of time.