Having boot problems trying to get right clock

acpalmer

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May 21, 2003
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Hi, I'm writing from Brazil, have assembled my first system by my own and, unfortunately, I have troubles.

It's an Athlon XP 2000+ (Palomino, model 6, locked at 12.5 multiplier) on an ASUS A7V333 MoBo (rev. 1.02, bios updated to v. 1017), 512Mb DDR 333 RAM from SAMSUNG (16 chips F4H560838C-TCB3, CL 2.5 for 166 bus), Volcano 7+, ATI Radeon 7500 64Mb, HDD 40GB ATA100.

The problem: it only boots when clock is set to minimum, 1250MHz (12.5 x FSB100), I've tried the correct option, 1667MHz (12.5 x FSB133) and system hangs. Manual override for clock (in JumperFree mode) is also worthless, maximum I've got to boot was FSB130 and PCI set to 33 (std). Even so as soon as I've try to run a CD in CD-ROM drive it hangs again.

I've updated the BIOS, changed the SPD on memory recognition inside BIOS to manual and nothing.

Windows XP Professional is installed, it runs well at 1250MHz.

One of the screens I've got when Win XP stopped was telling me a problem with ACPI.sys driver and returned me some memory addresses related to IRQ 9, for the AGP card.

VIA's driver were also updated to latest Hyperion's 4 in 1 from their web site.

Hardware problems? Windows drivers problems?

Any ideas on how to proceed from this point?

Thanx in advance for any help.:frown:
 

amdskip

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Jan 6, 2001
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It's possible to have a bad stick of memory. Is it possible to try a different stick?