ASUS A7V133.....should of went with the KT7A!

[WasntMe]

Dang, this ASUS board is killin' me...anyways...i'm getting a BSOD going into Win2k. This has started just last nite. The BSOD saids it can't load or find the system registry! Help me out you A7V133 gurus!

Oh dang, i should give some rig specs...
Flashed bios to 1003a
running it at 900X100 w/ PC133 Cas 3 Hyundai RAM...ran this @ 933 at 7X133 before and that worked fine, then started getting power problems where the machine would freeze when win2k went into standby...and then the BSOD would come up about some ACPI problem, but that's another problem..

 

[mercutio11]

You mean A7V133??? not K7V133...

 

[WasntMe]

whoops, i mean that...bump!

 

[WasntMe]

bumpty bump bump

 

[jamesbond007]

Hrrmmmm....How long have you had Win2k installed and was it working before correctly? Sometimes when you flash a BIOS, sometimes an OS can go freaking nuts and a format is required. Also, list all of your hardware you got and what slot they're in. I know I had a problem similar to that when I'd transfer files over a network, which would lockup Win2k, and corrupt most of my files on my C partition. If corruption is the problem, which my case was, move your NIC around. My NIC works wonderfully in PCI Slot 1, right next to my AGP card. I'll be checking back....

 

[jamesbond007]

Double posts suck. I guess it leaves room for me to say....Don't go ABIT! You will run into mucho problems. The config for the board sucks and doesn't leave room for large HSFs. Well, I gotta get to class.

Ciao.

 

[WasntMe]

thanks...

i don't think it could be the BIOS...i flashed, then rebooted, and Win2k seemed fine. I also have SP1 installed. After the flash, I played a coupble games of NBALive so everything was ok until this morning. I have the AGP slot occuppied and a PCI sound card in the next to the last slot. I don't think it's IRQ problems. I have "plug and play OS" enabled in the bios.

 

[WasntMe]

I'm probably babbling to myself, but man, I went with the ASUS board thinking that it's more rock stable than the ABIT. I have a KT7 board and that runs great. I actually paid more for this A7V133 than what I would for a KT7A. Ouch!

 

[SCSIfreek]

If you would list your hardware and also your cofiguration. Many people here will help you out as long as you tell us what when wrong. Furthermore, have you try to recover win2K. If you boot up win2K with the 4 bootup disks there is a option to recover the OS. Hope this helps, but if you have more quesitons please do not hesitate to post your results.


--SCSI

"Will never buy another Abit Board again"

 

[TeMpT]

Registry Errors during bootup is a REALLY common sign of excessive OC. Are you OC'ing?

 

[Dulanic]

<< i don't think it could be the BIOS...i flashed, then rebooted, and Win2k seemed fine. I also have SP1 installed. After the flash, I played a coupble games of NBALive so everything was ok until this morning. I have the AGP slot occuppied and a PCI sound card in the next to the last slot. I don't think it's IRQ problems. I have &quot;plug and play OS&quot; enabled in the bios. >>



Put the sound card in PCI slot 3, and update to BIOS 1004... BIOS 1003 wont OC as well as 1004. Do you have Suspend to RAM turned on in the BIOS? If you do that could explain your standby problems.... Suspend to RAM is a great feature.... unless your OCing, then it has problems booting back up. I also cant suspend to RAM... not much you can do about it, except maybe try jumper mode instead of jumperless then it may work fine.

Also ACPI and Win2K can cause problems quite often.... you can turn that off and you should have less problems. Nothing youve mentioned is MB specific.

 

[WasntMe]

Thanks for the responses guys,

I'm not O/C'...that's what's so puzzling. I have a T-bird 900 OEM, unclocked it. Settings are at 7 X 133. I tried upping the core for more juice. I/O is at 3.4V. Now i moved it back to stock settings at 9X100 w/ the same problems. I have a Englight 7232? case w/ a 300W PS. No problems with the ram cuz that's swapped from my other T-bird rig. I'll try moving the modem and soundcard to other slots. I don't have suspend on RAM, turned off all the power features in the BIOS.

 

[Dulanic]

Can you give a bit more detail about your problem? Im a bit confused... all you really said is it worked fine and now it doesnt.

 

[WasntMe]

Everything was working ok in Win2k last nite. Yesterday, I had a bootup problem with ACPI but that went away when I tried rebooting after a couple of times. I flashed BIOS to 1003a as a precaution. Booted fine. Played some NBA Live, rebooted a couple of times to see if ok. It was fine. This morning, I tried booting, got a BSOD when trying to get into Win2k. The BSOD said that the registry file was not found or corrupted. After the BSOD comes up, the computer would reboot itself and display the BSOD in a loop. Hope that clarifies.

 

[Dulanic]

Sound like some HD or RAM corruption.... #1 upgrade to BIOS 1004 at http://www.asus.com.tw because 1002 and 1003 has issues with SOME RAM. Also what is your PCI card configuration? What slots have what cards?

 

[WasntMe]

I have a soundcard in slot 3 and a 3com 56K in slot 5. The hd is a brand new Maxtor 20 gig 5400 rpm 100 ATA from Staples. The RAM is a stick of 128 Meg PNY ram w/ Hyundai RAM @ 3-3-3. I'll try the BIOS flash once I get home from work. Thanks!

 

[Dulanic]

Your PCI config is fine... I would suspect either upgrading the BIOS will fix it... or turning off ACPI in Win2K. If you dont need Standby... then when installing Win2K press F5 at the same time you would press F6... then you can install using Standard PC instead... all you lose is Standby, everything else works fine. You can still use hibernate and the rest.

 

[Rick25]

I'm guessing you've got a Via 4in1 pack installed and that it's either ver. 4.26-4.28. Those versions contain a IDE busmaster driver that can destroy a Win2k isnstallation. Grab 4.29 and get that installed pronto.

 

[jimmygates]

I'm suspecting the RAM as the problem. Maybe try another stick of ram?




-Jimbo

 

[Dulanic]

Thats also true... 4.26-4.28 can totally trash a Win2K install.. 4.29 works well tho. But still for sure try 1004 BIOS.

 

[lundog22]

Whenever you install a new BIOS, you should do a fresh install. Hope this help. Thats what I do. I never have a problem with this mobo under Win2k, and Win2k is all I use. And I didn't have any problem with VIA 4in1 4.28 Driver either.

 

[mercutio11]

How many version does A7V133 have?

 

[KevinH]

I think Dulanic is right. It may be your HD is corrupt. It happened to me once a while back out of the blue and that was similar to what happened to me. In essence, the sector that went bad just happened to be right on the system registry. Check it out bro and let us know what you find.

kev