A7V133 System keeps freezing.....any ideas?

[clown720]

Heres the system specs -

T-Bird 850@850 (100x8.5)
A7V133 w/ audio
Vantec Heatsink (keeps it at 40 degrees C)
256MB PC133
Radeon LE 148/148
20GB 7200rpm HD

We have installed win98, win98 SE, and winME, and all the drivers more than 15 times. This system should be running fine, but seems to freeze after we get all the drivers installed. Its not just one driver thats doing it, cause we've installed them in different orders. We had a IWILL board to begin with and we had the same problem so we upgraded to the ASUS board only to find out it still has the problem. The only thing I can think of is that the T-Bird is bad in some way, or the harddrive has something wrong with it. Please respond if you have any other suggestions. Thanx

 

[TRANCER24]

it sounds like to me a hardware problem It could be junky RAM first i would try setting your RAM speed to 100 in the bios instead of 133 and see if that helps and try using a different video card try doing what you havn't tried yet you will soon find the problem freezing could come from alot of problems even heat but it sounds to me it is hardware issue try unplugging your cd rom drive and floppy also after windows is installed. also do a surface scan scandisk on your hardrive i would use the dos version you could have some bad clusters which could cause freezing also.

 

[JRbob]

Do you have anything in PCI slot 1or 2 because if you do the ATA controller dont like to share IRQs with anything.
What BIOS and 4in1 drivers are you using? And are you using a sound blaster sound card.

 

[JimmyG]

You don't state what kind of power supply you are using. It should be AMD approved and at least 300W. You should also try running with only the video card and hard drive. If it runs stable that way, then add cards and preipherals one at a time until the lock ups return. Then you know the culprit. If it doesn't run stable with just the video and hard drive, then suspect the MOBO.

 

[clown720]

Thx for the ideas, were using the 4in1 drivers that came with the motherboard, were using onboard audio, and it is a 300w AMD approved power supply.