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Is it time for a new mobo?

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WhiteKnight

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I've posted a few times about problems I've been having with my PC and despite minor successes, I just can't seem to get it back to 100%. I am running a 1.4 TBird on a KK266R with XP Pro. About a month ago, my pc started freezing about 20s after windows startup. I ran through the usual procedure to fix things but then I started to have hardware problems, specifically my RAID array and HDs. After testing on another machine, I eliminated both the HDs as well as my RAID controller card as sources of error. I ended up reinstalling XP, but now I'm just having random boot problems and other hardware problems pop up randomly. Is it time for me to invest in a new mobo?

Edit: Among the hardware issues is the inability to read my onboard RAID (my boot drive is on a PCI RAID array, the onboard raid is just for storage drives) from my new installation of XP. I was working originally, but after a few reboots it went away for some reason and now can't see the onboard RAID controller.
 
Originally posted by: bsr
sounds like you need a format and clean install
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He tried that.

And yes, time for a new mobo. Whats your budget like? Add $40 to $50 more ontop of a ne wmobo and you can get an XP 1700+ and OC it to 2ghz
 
freezes, slows and crashes are normally are software problem or a problem with the HD or ram... very rarly is it the board. You should try the hardware in other machines to see if its the same. Oh, and did you try reseting the cmos / bios ?
 
As I mentioned above, I was able to get the RAID array to boot on another computer. I also tried changing the ram around, with both sticks, and then each one by itself, no change. I formatted my boot drive and reinstalled XP. Everything seemed ok at first, but then things started getting funky again after a few reboots.
 
This happened to my friends motherboard, just got worse and worse, and corrupted windows faster and faster, probabily a good idea to save urself the headaches and get a new motherboard, I got the Epox 8RDA+ and it works great.
 
ur new setup sounds nice, makes me jealous, but yeah, im waitin to upgrade till right b4 college. but, you could get some better memory, cheaper elsewhere, crucial is no longer, the best value ram. hyperx is very good

MIKE
 
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