I was working with an Abit KG7-RAID motherboard flashed with the newest bios in a case with a 300 watt psu (can't remember specific make), 1.4ghz tbird, 1gb of APACER (garbage?) pc2100 DDR (4x256), visiontek gef3, netgear fa311 nic, sb live, 2 40gb wd ide hd's plugged into the hpt370 raid controller and this thing was just erratic as hell.
first problem was the postman, he'd show up on a warm boot (ctrl-alt-del, bios menu f10, windows restart) about 5% of the time, in the 95% of the time it didn't you had to press the reset button to get it to post
sometimes when you would turn it on initially it wouldn't post, back to the reset button
windows crashed horribly in everything but surprisingly XP installed with no hangups
I attempted to run it with a different video card, no other cards installed, paid close attention to temps, tried running individual sticks of memory until i cycled through all 4 and none made a difference, cleared the cmos multiple times, tried to reduce settings for compatibility as much as possible, nothing helped
the shop that sold my buddy this board claims it "requires" registered/ecc DDR and a 350w power supply, but I disagree, shed any light on this?
For a resolution, I slapped an Asus A7A266 in it, reinstalled XP and it flies, 6461 3dmarks with stock settings and detonatorXP drivers, amazingly stable
first problem was the postman, he'd show up on a warm boot (ctrl-alt-del, bios menu f10, windows restart) about 5% of the time, in the 95% of the time it didn't you had to press the reset button to get it to post
sometimes when you would turn it on initially it wouldn't post, back to the reset button
windows crashed horribly in everything but surprisingly XP installed with no hangups
I attempted to run it with a different video card, no other cards installed, paid close attention to temps, tried running individual sticks of memory until i cycled through all 4 and none made a difference, cleared the cmos multiple times, tried to reduce settings for compatibility as much as possible, nothing helped
the shop that sold my buddy this board claims it "requires" registered/ecc DDR and a 350w power supply, but I disagree, shed any light on this?
For a resolution, I slapped an Asus A7A266 in it, reinstalled XP and it flies, 6461 3dmarks with stock settings and detonatorXP drivers, amazingly stable
