I purchased an A7M266 mother board about 3 months ago and am still not able to make it run stable.
The system has
[*] 1.33 AMD
[*]400w power
[*]40 gig udma 100/7200 Maxtor hd X 2
[*]52X cd rom
[*]TNT 2 AGP
[*]256 mgs samsung non ecc ddr ram X 2
[*]real tek net card
I've tried
[*] Loading Linux, 2000, 98,
[*]Moving and or changing the ram, hard drives, netcards, cables
[*]Turning off all the more elaborate features in the bios
[*]Updating the bios, Down grading the bios
[*]Removing all the extra drives, cards, connectors, memory
[*]Rechecking all jumpers, settings, connections and it still crashes usually with exception errors.
There doesn't seem to be any one factor that does it. Some times I can open 10 programs other times explorer kills it. Usually I can't duplicate the crash. In Linux the errors are usually more drive oriented errors. At first I thought it might be the bios because it stooped recognizing the cd rom, I changed the bios and that didn't help but after many more tires it started working again. I have built a lot of systems. There doesn't seem to be anything special about this one, but I have no idea what could be doing this. I have spent 3 months trying to get this board to work correctly. Literally I have changed the components and reinstalled the operating systems over 60 times. ASUS has not responded to any of my numerous inquiries for assistance or an RMA. The only change that has had any effect on the stability of the board was decreasing the ram to 1 DDR and placing it in slot 2. If I use 2 DDRs or place any in slot 1 its useless. Using just 1 doesn't cure the problem but it will function longer.
Is this thing Toast? OR does someone have an idea?
ps. its not over clocked and there is no special settings. Right now the bios is up to date and the jumpers are on auto.
:disgust:
The system has
[*] 1.33 AMD
[*]400w power
[*]40 gig udma 100/7200 Maxtor hd X 2
[*]52X cd rom
[*]TNT 2 AGP
[*]256 mgs samsung non ecc ddr ram X 2
[*]real tek net card
I've tried
[*] Loading Linux, 2000, 98,
[*]Moving and or changing the ram, hard drives, netcards, cables
[*]Turning off all the more elaborate features in the bios
[*]Updating the bios, Down grading the bios
[*]Removing all the extra drives, cards, connectors, memory
[*]Rechecking all jumpers, settings, connections and it still crashes usually with exception errors.
There doesn't seem to be any one factor that does it. Some times I can open 10 programs other times explorer kills it. Usually I can't duplicate the crash. In Linux the errors are usually more drive oriented errors. At first I thought it might be the bios because it stooped recognizing the cd rom, I changed the bios and that didn't help but after many more tires it started working again. I have built a lot of systems. There doesn't seem to be anything special about this one, but I have no idea what could be doing this. I have spent 3 months trying to get this board to work correctly. Literally I have changed the components and reinstalled the operating systems over 60 times. ASUS has not responded to any of my numerous inquiries for assistance or an RMA. The only change that has had any effect on the stability of the board was decreasing the ram to 1 DDR and placing it in slot 2. If I use 2 DDRs or place any in slot 1 its useless. Using just 1 doesn't cure the problem but it will function longer.
Is this thing Toast? OR does someone have an idea?
ps. its not over clocked and there is no special settings. Right now the bios is up to date and the jumpers are on auto.
:disgust:
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