A7V8X crashes during Windows 2000 Installation

[karfar6]

I just bought a A7V8X and I am having instability issues.
I updated the bios to 1010 and then decided to reinstall Windows. I started the setup but half way through the installation, the computer just crashed and came up with a blue screen (something about NTFS ).
I have a feeling this caould be due to the bios revision. Do you think I should stay with 1010, or 1006 which is what the motherboard came with.

I have a 300WATT case, 2100+Athlon XP, 256 crucial PC2700 RAM, radeon 7500, 20GB Seagate drive.

 

[mechBgon]

Could be you had ACPI enabled, and the new BIOS disables it, or vice versa. Windows can't switch from one kernel to the other. Look through your owner's manual for the board, get into the BIOS and switch ACPI to whatever it's not set for now, or reinstall Win2000 without reformatting the hard drive.

 

[lane42]

Hey mech, is it me or do alot of Guy's have problems with the xp 2100, 2200 class of cpu's. I sit back and read alot of the post's and it seams more of these class of cpu's have problems, resets, Blue screens , Ect. What do you yhink

 

[mechBgon]

I haven't really thought about it... Of course, at this time, the 2100+ sits at the best point in the price/MHz curve, too (or it looks that way to me). Could be it's just the popular item...

 

[SpideyCU]

I'd second a consideration of the popularity of those chips as to the cause of the number of threads. Seems a lot of problems end up being caused by something only tangentially related anyhow.

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: lane42
Hey mech, is it me or do alot of Guy's have problems with the xp 2100, 2200 class of cpu's. I sit back and read alot of the post's and it seams more of these class of cpu's have problems, resets, Blue screens , Ect. What do you yhink

I think it's more the A7V8X
KT400 blah.
might be the 300W PSU as well.
I had to replace my 300 in my first Athlon system because it was not enough.

 

[Zim Hosein]

karfar6, I had the same issue w/ an old AMD board a while back, turned out the board was very picky w/ the RAM I had, although the sticks worked fine in other rigs Just a thought, hope it helps

 

[karfar6]

thanks for your help

 

[Coalfax]

I also had a similar problem when trying to install WinXP from a formatted Harddrive. I found that my difficulty was that after loading all the necessary startup information ( SCSI drives crap ) from the XP CD, it suddenly would crash with a protection fault. Seems that it didnt like to be installed from a DVD drive, regardless that it just installed all the information files from the said DVD drive.

Simple fix. Reinstalled my old CDrom drive and it installed like a charm ( though a bit slower )