CPU hangs???? what the heck!??

[lepper boy]

Just built a new system using
A7V266 with xp1700+
256meg ddr
Geforce 2 ti/500 XP
zoom fax modem 56meg...

It will pop up in the bios and say the cpu hung at the speed and is now opperating in safe mode.. which basically switches the FSB to 100 instead of 133.... so....... which nocks the speed from the 1.4 to 1100 mhz.... any info on how to solve this problem fix it etc...... it MUCH APPRECIATED!!!!!

It did this once after I had the computer off all night and turned it on the first time in the morning... so i'm 95% sure it's not a heat issue....

 

[DaiShan]

have you tried a bios flash? I know the kg7 required a bios flash to fully support the xp chips.

 

[lepper boy]

i'm in the process of hunting down the right bios for the board.. the newest one won't let me download it for some strange reason.

 

[DaiShan]

bios

just click on the .zip file at the top of the page, don't bother clicking on the ftp sites.

 

[lepper boy]

that is the bios I had already... but I did just reflash it again... I don't know if this will help guess I Will find out in a few.....

 

[DaiShan]

you already had that bios and it wasn't recognizing it as an xp chip?

 

[lepper boy]

no it recognizes it is an xp chip..... just everyonce in a while when I reboot or something it hangs. and goes to the bios and wants to boot in safe mode. bascially bumping the fsb donw to 100 instead of 133...... Thanks for the input... any other ideas?? so far it hasn't done it since this morning..... maybe it's fixed?? fingers crosse.d......

 

[DaiShan]

hopefully, but if it isn't, how many watts is your psu? and is it on the amd approved list? How old is it also?

 

[lepper boy]

It's a brand new enermax 350watt power supply.... and list?? what list??
where?
dave

 

[lepper boy]

OH!! that list.... Yep it is on the list.. so I am good there..

 

[DaiShan]

definitely enough power, but just to be sure do you have another psu you could switch out too if the problem persists?

 

[SemperFi]

I had this problem with my a7v. The only difference being it would back off the memory timing to 100 mhz from 133 since the a7v didn't support 133 fsb.

Anyhow what fixed it for me was to set the jumpers from manual to auto for the overclocking feature. In other words when I used the jumpers to overclock the cpu this happened to me quite often. when I went back to auto detect cpu speed problem went away.

Well I know it is not the same but it is something else to check.

Hope this helps

Semper Fi