I don't want to loose faith in AMD!

[Snoop]

circut16: Go ahead and try the bios, just go slow and you have nothing to worry about Its like loading drivers. Just make a bootable floppy, and start flashing, cant hurt.

 

[circut16]

Thank You all for the suggestions
I will probably end up flashing the bios
the tech rep from abit said the first board I had could have fried the cpu, we will see
Time for bed
me tired

 

[mchammer187]

what are your memory timings at? i would suggest messing with those

any difference between CAS 2 & 2.5

there is also an Athlon AGP fix for 2k/XP

ACPI can also cause a lot of major headaches

and also make sure you do not have any cards in PCI slot 1

i think i had to do all of that to get my epox 8kha+ stable

but now i have a northwood and am luvin it

 

[Siddhartha]

Have you tried running the BIOS at the default settings?

 

[Curley]

Power Supply

 

[rockhard]

Another vote for powersupply.
Your PSU may be doing +5 volts as you say, but if you take a look on the sticker you will see that the PSU is rated less than 2amps on the +5 volt.
A lot of mobo's are having probs with this. I read on a newsgroup a while ago an Asus tech recommending not to use a PSU with no less than 2 amps on the 5volt rail FWIW.
Have you tried a PSU that is rated as above 2 amp on the +5 volt rail? Preferably non Enermax
Im getting kinda tired of seeing people recommend Enermax PSU's when they have this defficiency. Its about time Enermax were forced to get their act together on this IMO

 

[jpprod]

Are you sure that setting FSB to 266MHz doesn't raise the PCI (33MHz) and AGP (66MHz) clocks out-of-spec? If for some reason or another the BIOS doesn't change the dividers as you up the clock, the system would be extremely unstable.

 

[MadRat]

Just a quick thought, your Motherboard is a POS.

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Sure alot of problems for such a recent release.