A7N266-C - CPU voltage too high

[Noid]

Hi all ,,,

MotorHeader gave me some instructions on how to move a HD from an old Dell using W98 to a new PC with all new mb and hardware. (Oct/6/2000)

I'm wondering if I can still use this process in W2K.

Basically was like this...

1. Make sure the W98 cab files are on the HD
2. Backup the system.dat and user.dat files.
3. Find and Delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum using regedit
4. shutdown
5. Install new hardware
6. Restart
7. Run new hardware wizard.

This worked for W98... will this process work for W2K also ... ? (using W2K cabs of course)

 

[GAZZA]

I did the same for Win98 roughly speaking , i've mentioned this before that Win2k and XP tend to be more forgiving with it comes to major hardware changes than Win9x was , but there's still no guaratee it'll work perfectly .

First thing to do is to backup your data , if you have any applications like drive image pro or norton ghost then use it to image your drive ,that way if it does screw up at least you can return it back to normal with the old motherboard.

You could try the other way which was to un-install all your devices in device manager , shut the pc down ,change hardware and reboot letting win2k locate and isntall all the hardware , some will be new such as the mobo so you'll need drivers for that.
You won't need the cabfiles from the cd as win2k has it all built in when you install the OS , I can't think of many things except maybe for faxing from your pc that requires the cd .

 

[Noid]

Thanks GAZZA

Ya ... the W98 was a scarry ordeal (5 reboots and blue screens) ... but it did work

I think I'll do the device manager this time. That should make sure I have all the old drivers removed ... right? (lol)

Good to hear W2K will be better at this.

Cant wait to get rid of this MSI K7master ... going ASUS - A7N266-C.

Newegg is outta stock at the moment ... hopefully I can pick one up soon.

 

[GAZZA]

I remember changing out from a Abit BE6 rev II PIII 600@840 to a ECS 735 with a 900 AMD Atlon Tbird , didn't have any problems with the transfer , what killed me was the on board sound driver for my new mobo freaked my OS out .

I would also make sure you get rid of any drivers that are installed from EXE based application , go and check in your Add/Remove Software and remove any such as 4 in 1 drivers ,etc .... should make it a lot easier .

Don't forget to back your data up tho before you start !

 

[Noid]

Yup ... I have Ghost 6.5 and a 30gig drive just for backup. I actually upgraded a bunch of drivers also before I made my images.

And thanks for reminding me about those Package software drivers. (I have one listed from AMD)

 

[GAZZA]

One other thing about using Ghost , you are unable to image from a NTFS partition to a NTFS partition - it's that plain and simple .

You can only image NTFS to FAT32 partition wise !

I found out the hard way

 

[DAPUNISHER]

GAZZA has you well on your way Just as an FYI, I replaced a KT266A, GTS-V card with a KT333, SiS315 TV out card under XP pro and it didn't even hiccup! booted straight to the desktop and had the XP drivers for both installed already :Q I updated the drivers of course but I was still impressed with the smoothness of the upgrade.

 

[Noid]

Yup ... the backup drive is FAT32....

yo .. DaPunisher ... sweet Northwood OC !!!

thx for the encouragement...

NewEgg just E'd me that the MB is in ... I picked it up for $105.

I give ya'all a post next week with my results !!!

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Yes, post back how you made out! BTW, I just built the A7N266-VM and the only OS I own that I had left to put on it is win98 SE and I had to install every little driver manually. I even had to install the 3 ram controllers manually, and when I downloaded the latest drivers the self-installer/extractor said it was for ME only so I had to install all of them manually again! Just be glad you are using w2k instead BTW my 1.6A O/C is mild (I can go higher but it runs to hot with the stock cooler and pad for my liking because I have to really push the Vcore ), some of these cats in the CPU forum are getting 2.6-2.8+ghz with the newer batches :Q

 

[Noid]

Hi ...

It's installed. And I'm pleased.

I did, and do, have problems thou. My harddisk was unreadable after the new MB was installed. Im not sure if it was from my MSI problem I posted a few months back. (The MSI config farted, and then I could only boot with the W2K CD in the CD drive during bootup) Or, I deleted some required stuff in the Device manager that I shouldnt. Anyway It was an easier W2K rebuild cuz the SP3 is out now. (lots less to download)

I have some problems with voltage to the CPU. On the lowest setting (jumpers set to 1.70/1.675) PC probe says I have 1.79. This runs my MB HOT, 36C at idle, but my CPU is 41C. Now ... I have to say, my apartment is rather warm this summer (85F) at the time of reading. I know the chip is actually hoter than posted cuz the thermal diode doesnt touch the chip.

Hows your voltages? All my settings are higher than rated in manual. The default was 1.89. Way to high for the 1.75 rated for a AMD chip. Did I get a bad MB?

I got 140 FSB on the 10.5 multiplier for my 1.4 t-bird on this new MB.

The MSI wouldnt overclock at all. And I always had to unplug it for 22 seconds for the 4x AGP to work if I shutdown.

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Im getting blue screeens on my LNE100v5.sys driver. (NIC)
(driver not less than equal message)

Is this my 140 FSB doing this? ... I'm gonna back down the FSB ... any recomendations on a NIC that handles a OC'd system well?

I actually tried the 4/3 divider ... so far .... no more blue screen

 

[DAPUNISHER]

It looks like Asus Probe doesn't report correctly because I have the same problem using the latest version of Probe, it reports as follows 12v=12.6725v=4.9993.3v=3.376Vcore=1.84v (1ghz Morgan) However the bios shows the following 12v=12v3.3v=3.3v5v=4.9vVcore=1.8v (this one does stay substantially higher than default) I don't think you have a bad board but this chipset does seem to have a few inherent bugs that the latest drivers and using XP pro don't resolve IMHO. As to the NIC, have you tried removing it and seeing if the behavior persist given the same settings that caused the BSOD before? If it is indeed the NIC then try a SMC as I've had good luck with high FSB using them.

 

[Noid]

The BIOS doesnt show the hundreths, thats why it's only 1.8

Mine shows 1.7 (ie 1.79)

When I upped any jumper higher, it aways says 1.8.

I just had a soft boot during an online quake session.

I'm gonna back it down to 133 ... see what happens for awhile.

 

[Noid]

Making new thread ... this one takes to long to load now