Recent content by Smoke2jj

The man above speaks the gospel. Make sure you have a fan plugged into fan 1!! The board will not boot without it!! It is a "safety feature" incase the fan dies or what ever so you do not kill your cpu!!

I have had the same problem when useing Nortons personal firewall. I got rid of it and never had the probelm again... My guess is that something running in the background is causeing your problem or some software you installed caused the problem. If you installed anything recently remove it...

Well if it is just JPEG it may be somthing got corrupted with your video drivers. I am assumeing all three cards you tried are the same card so try reinstalling the LATEST ati drivers for the card. I fyou have tried tree different cards with the same problem you computer must have grimlins in...

Well lets see here. You have the lates 4 in 1 from via, latest video adapter drivers, monitor with refresh rate set ok, and lates version of dirext X. Well I would reccomend trying at the very least adifferent video card in that you try an different brand or model all together just to see what...

I agree. Many DVD rom drives have a problem reading CDR and CDRW disks. The first thing to do is try different brands of CDR's and it may take several trys to find something compatable because color can make a difference (green, blue, silver). I rccomend that you try verbatim, or even imation.

I agree. Your motherboard is probably not lieing. It IS possible to have a new bad CPU. The first thing to do is check the cpu any way possible which means try another socket A chip by borrowing one or bring it into a shop to test and that should not take long to do. Most shops are pretty...

Thanks night towl and geekish thoughts. You guys are awesome!!

yup I got 256 meg of ram. I checked some of the previous threads and many people seem to think (senior & diamond members) that with plenty of ram win2k prof. is MUCH mor stable and just as fast. Well that settles it I guess I will go with Win2k and become one of those enlightened fellows...

Ok I need to install my OS over again and I have the choice of either Win2k or win98Se or winME. Now I want to use win2k for the simple rease that it appears to be very stable and will be similar to XP but everywhere I go everyone says that win98SE is a BIT faster than win2k. Well can anyone...

no luck reseting CMOS. I still have the same problem... Could over clocking the front side bus to 115 cause permanent damage?? I had my 700*117=805 for a while but I put it back to normal and still have the problem.. HELP!!!

I have had the motherboard for a while now and it kind of just started to happen. But thanks for the suggestion and I will give it a try.

When I power up my system it makes a long beep and then 2 short beeps. For an award Bios I know this is a video error. But after tryig different memmory and a bunch of other things I have found that If I reinsert my CPU (athlon Slot A) it will power up fine and it runs rock solid without a...