ASUS A7V8X 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....

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

 

[BG4533]

Have you tried installing the Nvidia nForce2 drivers and then your video card drivers? I am not sure if this is necessary, but try it. Is that a legal version of XP? I don't think you can access the Windows Update for illegal versions and beta builds anymore.