getting crashes after upgrading - not oclocking.

Tash

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Apr 20, 2001
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I just upgraded from Duron 850 to XP1600+. I'm using Win XP. I was at the desktop and it just re-booted. I then reduced FSB from 133 to 100. I isn't doing that now, but got "serious error" from WinXP twice in 15 minutes. Anyone have any ideas? I'm not overclocking and at boot, the CMOS says CPU is 51 deg Celcius.

Thanks.
 

rsrvoir

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Hey Tash. Just saw the post. Makes me (hate to say it) feel a little better, because I myself just had that problem three days ago. I posted around here, but no one really helped out.

I oc'ed a 1.6 to a fsb of 144 with the memory up around 384 mhz. It was running smoothly, until I messed with some fans in the case, turned it on and it bluescreened. After bluescreening, I got the "recovered from a serious error" message at every reboot. I brought all the levels back to default, with no oc, but kept getting that same "serious error" message. The pci/agp was locked in, so it shouldn't have been the hard drive. The only thing that I could figure is that mymemory wasn't up to the job, and it some how compromised the operating system (is that possible?) I just re-loaded, and it fixed the problem. Extra bit...I was playing around with super aggressive memory timings (pc2700 @ 1.5, 2, 2, 5) and it brought up that "recovered from a serious error" message. Dropped back down to 2,2,2,5 and it didn't happen again.

Sorry to be so long-winded, but I hope this helps you at all. Like I said, I think it's the memory.

-rsrvoir
 

BuddyAtBzboyz

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Are you sure your board supports the xp's. Telling us the name of your motherboard might get you more help.
 

Tash

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it's a MSI 6341 K7-Master. I am running at 100/200 instead of 133/266 and it's stable. I will try to get a bios upgrade.

Thanks.