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I'm going nuts! Problem with 8KHA? AGP? or what?!

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culex

Senior member
Okay,

So I built a budget system for a friend two months ago... unfortunately, it hasn't been behaving.

It's a Athlon 1.4 (not XP) on an Epox 8KHA.

Everything is fine except in terms of Video.

First video card I tried was a Radeon VE. When using the card with WinXP stock drivers, it has no problems... except games suck. When I update the driver to any other version, it will go haywire. WinXP will lock up, reboot itself, etc etc. It's not stable basically. Please keep in mind I've tried the official drivers and beta drivers. It only likes the stock WinXP drivers.

So I tried a Geforce2 MX400 card next, same exact problem. Got the latest one off of Nvidia's site, installed it, it starts locking up then reboots itself. No unstable problems when using XP stock drivers tho...

I've no idea WTF is going on with this. I've tried everything I can think of. The VIA drivers have been updated to 4.35 (or whatever was before the March 15th driver) ever since the fresh install. I must have formatted about 10 times since then by now.

BIOS has been updated to the 1/10/02 version and it still did no help.

Anyone have any ideas?
 
I don't have a KT266A mobo so I don't know..but I'll still try to help.

Have you turned off some of the extra settings like AGP 4x (putting it back to 2x), Fastwrites=Off, SidebandAddressing=Off?

I heard that if you have problems with video, you should try and put your AGP Apeture setting to its highest setting (usually 128 or 256).

Is anything overclocked?

Perhaps the voltage for a particular device somewhere around your mobo is too high.

I doubt it has anything to do with drivers because the rebooting problem persists with both the VE and MX.

Have you tried taking out and reseating all the components in your system (including the CPU, AGP card, RAM, etc.)

Maybe you just got a lemon. If so, then the AGP port must be fooked and you'll probably need to RMA the motherboard.
 
I havent tried setting AGP to 2x but that's a good suggestion.

Fastwrites and any performance->stability hindering options are all disabled.

Nothing is overclocked.

It's weird since XP native drivers work fine... it's just the ANY other drivers that makes it go crazy.
 
That's why I don't build computers for friends anymore. They would always expect free tech support at all hours. Now I tell them to get a Dell. 😉
 
I always leave PCI slot 1 empty(nearest to AGP slot) even on 2K/XP systems,I presume you did disable all video shadowing in bios as well, you could also make sure your WinXP has the lastest monitor drivers as well.Btw what PSU and CPU temps do you have?
I would go back to basics with minimal hardware installed(clean os installed as well again) then try and install the latest video drivers and see what happens.
 
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