Abit KR7A-RAID Problem? Arg!!!! Hard-Drive Corrupted?

[DreamKaZz]

Hi All,

Hardware:
XP 1700 (watercooled) Not Overclocked
KR7A-RAID
(2) Micron PC2100 DDR
RADEON 8500
SB LIVE (Value)
3com NIC
Maxtor 40Gig
Maxtor 20Gig
WinXP Pro

All this hardware was running on a Asus A7V-133 before with SDRAM with no problems.

Now I am experiencing some intermitent problems like BSOD, slow load in games sometimes, sound loop, etc.
I ran memtest86 2.8 for the RAM, tested one stick at a time.
and they both failed at test #5 which in the FAQ mean that it might not be a RAM problem?!
I get BSOD:
Memory Management screens
ATI****.sys (dont remember exactly) but probably the Radeon drivers
Snd***.sys (dont remember exactly) but probably the SB Live both of these worked fine in the older A7V config.

Also Windows just freeze sometimes....but thats windows.

Running lastest Drivers and 4in1.

So Board Problem?

 

[cr4pz0r]

DreamKaZz,

Did you wipe out and re-install Windows XP from scratch, or did you simply migrate your existing Windows XP installation onto your new motherboard? If you did the latter, that could cause major problems with ANY change of motherboard - upgrade or downgrade.

 

[DreamKaZz]

Re-installed a couple of times since.

 

[silky]

I would remove the via 4 in 1 drivers, that could be your problem. Windows XP doesn't need them.

 

[lessell]

Try moving your memory into slots 1 and 3. Then increase the fsb to 135 or 136 and see if that takes care of the problem. Some of the kr7as have a memory timing issue that seems to settle out when the bus is increased. I've read several post where moveing the memory into the 1 and 3 slots increased stability.

 

[dunkster]

What lessell said.

VMem to mem slots 1 & 2 is suppied on separate power bus than VMem on slots 3 & 4. Check the AT7 review on HardOCP (last page, Kyle's discussion with Via about via's use of separate memory voltage controllers).

Many similar postings from KR7-series board users about stable results with mem slots 1 & 3.

Hope this helps!

 

[DreamKaZz]

I moved the RAM stick to dimm 1 and 3 (dimm 0 and 2 are empty) changed the FSB to 136-137MHz.
I booted it worked for a bit, it rebooted by itself and now I get al sort of errors IRQ_LESS_THEN_EQUAL, problem with ntfs.sys, etc.
Is my hard-drive corrupted?