- Nov 12, 2004
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Okay, I'm usually fairly computer savvy but today I have a big problem. I have been trying to get this motherboard to work and it's not cooperating with me. Here is what I have in my computer:
480 Watt Antec True Power
Radeon 9700 Pro
Athlon 64 3500+
A8V Deluxe Rev 2.0 bios 1007
2 seagate barracuda 7200.7 plus (placing them on the promise raid controller)
2 Gig's of PC 3200
DVD burner and DVD drive (pioneer)
Now here's the problem!! I have installed WIN XP about 15 times on this thing. Sometimes an error will occur while copying files and sometimes it won't. After installing windows correctly (80% of the time) I would go through all the installations. I would install certain games like HALO and C&C Generals. I would install all the updates on XP and make sure I had everything up to date. When I would run a game or do intensive video processing of any kind (windows media player, WIN DVD, etc) the computer would freeze and reboot. Sometimes I would get the blue screen of death sometimes I wouldn't. Here is what I have tried to remedy this. I sent the first motherboard back to ZipZoomFly and they sent me the same box with (supposedly) a new motherboard in it and gave me the new serial number on a piece of paper. Well okay so here are the other solutions. I tried different RAM, Different video card, different hard drive on the different raid controller (SATA on the Via instead of the promise), and different power supply. Switching out all of these individually and all together yielded the same results. No matter what combination I tried, it would still reboot when running a game. The only thing I couldn't try that was different was a processor since they are quite costly. I don't know if ZipZoomFly sent me the same motherboard I had initially which I had to troubleshoot a lot more than I already have this one. Well I don't know if anyone can shed some light on this subject. The first time I ended up taking the comp to a tech and he told me it was the motherboard. I don't want to do the same thing again to get the same result. Should I just go to ZipZoomfly and return the mother board and ask for a refund. IF anyone has any suggestions please let me know. My next thing to try will be to download the win 64 demo and install it on the computer. Any insite is greatly appreciated!
480 Watt Antec True Power
Radeon 9700 Pro
Athlon 64 3500+
A8V Deluxe Rev 2.0 bios 1007
2 seagate barracuda 7200.7 plus (placing them on the promise raid controller)
2 Gig's of PC 3200
DVD burner and DVD drive (pioneer)
Now here's the problem!! I have installed WIN XP about 15 times on this thing. Sometimes an error will occur while copying files and sometimes it won't. After installing windows correctly (80% of the time) I would go through all the installations. I would install certain games like HALO and C&C Generals. I would install all the updates on XP and make sure I had everything up to date. When I would run a game or do intensive video processing of any kind (windows media player, WIN DVD, etc) the computer would freeze and reboot. Sometimes I would get the blue screen of death sometimes I wouldn't. Here is what I have tried to remedy this. I sent the first motherboard back to ZipZoomFly and they sent me the same box with (supposedly) a new motherboard in it and gave me the new serial number on a piece of paper. Well okay so here are the other solutions. I tried different RAM, Different video card, different hard drive on the different raid controller (SATA on the Via instead of the promise), and different power supply. Switching out all of these individually and all together yielded the same results. No matter what combination I tried, it would still reboot when running a game. The only thing I couldn't try that was different was a processor since they are quite costly. I don't know if ZipZoomFly sent me the same motherboard I had initially which I had to troubleshoot a lot more than I already have this one. Well I don't know if anyone can shed some light on this subject. The first time I ended up taking the comp to a tech and he told me it was the motherboard. I don't want to do the same thing again to get the same result. Should I just go to ZipZoomfly and return the mother board and ask for a refund. IF anyone has any suggestions please let me know. My next thing to try will be to download the win 64 demo and install it on the computer. Any insite is greatly appreciated!