ASUS A7V8X OR WIN XP (problems)??? - please help!

[adp21]

Hi everyone:

I bought a new AMD XP 2400+ CPU & ASUS A7V8X mobo yesterday and upgraded my pc.....and since then everything has been crazy!

First of all, I had to reformat my C drive and install WIN 2K (which went OK), but when I tried to upgrade to to XP Pro - it wouldn't let me..kept rebooting and freezing up during the installation process.

Anyways - reformatted again and installed XP Pro today. It's quite stable for now except that I cannot install any AGP drivers for my NVIDIA GEFORCE4 MX 440 card! No matter which version of the drivers (incl. the new Detonator ones) I install, my system goes haywire and keeps rebooting itself.

I checked the IRQ's and did a bunch of re-installations but no luck....also I cannot get any updates for XP from the MSFT updates website for some reason....I updated to all the new drivers from the VIA and ASUS websites, still nothing.

I am one step away from RMA'ing it!...If I can't fix this problem by Tuesday, I am returning it!.....

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

My system specs are -

Athlon XP 2400+
ASUS A7V8X Mobo
300W AMD recomendded PSU
NVIDIA GEFORCE4 MX 440
512 MB 266 mhz DDR RAM

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[GonzoDaGr8]

Hmm..Almost the exact same system I have, Except I have a GeForce3 Ti200. So far running awesome for me. Did you do a clean install of XP Pro, or was the second time an upgrade as well? Have you installed the latest Hyperion Chipset drivers from VIA? Check your BIOS and see that you have the latest from ASUS. Also, try setting video to 4x in BIOS for now and see if that clears up anything. Also make sure your RAM timings aren't too agressive.
EDIT: For some reason I thought you had a 8x version Gef440mx. Nevermind that part then.
EDIT_2: Go to Start>Control Panel>system>Advanced Tab>Startup and recovery>settings. Un-check the restart system box and see if you get an error code instead of just re-booting. May check MS knowledge base to see what the error means.