K7V, poor stability running 2k

[Kill_Phil]

my friend has a kt7a and is running a athalon 750 with a gorb on it applied using artic silver 2. has 2 wd hdd's 30 gig and 6 gig, a cdrom and a burner, sound blaster live value, voodoo 3 2000 (gets really hot), a dlink nic and 256meg pc133 micron ram (pretty new). he used to have some older ram in there before, so we took that out but he gets hard locks, sometimes booting win2k, sometimes playing a game, seems that its only when under stress. i thought it must be the power supply because he had a 250, and it wasent amd reccommended.. so he went out and got a full tower with an amd reccommended 300w power supply. but the same thing happens, so i think its either because of the cpu overheating, or if its not the cpu, then it must be the video card overheating. one of my friends thinks it could be due to the mobo shorting on the case, and to put washers under the screws that mount the mobo (i dont think it would boot if it was shorting). any suggestions or what you think it might be?

 

[Pederv]

Which PCI slots are the cards in? Some of the PCI slots share the same IRQ and if you have the SBLive sharing an IRQ with another device it could be causing the lockups. Have you installed a hardware monitor? This will alow you to see the cpu and system temps. There's one on the driver disk that came with the kt7a.

 

[Kill_Phil]

oops, i forgot which mobo this friend was running, its actually a K7V (ive bought too many mobos recently!) i couldent keep it running long enough to download and install mbm, that was my plan to see what the temps were like.. in the bios the motherboard temp is ok, but there is no cpu temp. the heatsink used to get warm, but i dont think it goes long enough to warm up the heatsink anymore. we tried with just video, 1 hdd, 1 stick of ram, and just the cpu... same thing happens

*edited for grammer*

 

[Pederv]

Have you run Western Digital's disk diags? At least iliminate the HD's as the cause.

 

[Kill_Phil]

good thought, will have him try that (reinstalled 2k about 3 times now tho)

 

[SilverThief]

I loved the K7V when I had it, excellent board...with one exception. For whatever reason, I could not ever get Win2k to run on it, wouldnt even get all the way through the install process.

Never did figure out why, I just gave up on running it until I bought a K7T Pro2. That was a year ago.

 

[Kill_Phil]

yeah, this board was passed down to its current owner from a friend. the original owner had a nearly exact combination on that motherboard, and it worked great for around a year and a half. only now, we run into problems

 

[knutp]

I got the k7v with 1008c beta bios, asus 6800 deluxe, 768 mb ram (one 512, and one 256), one ibm 40 gb (60gxp), one 20 gb (maxtor 6800+) and one 10 gb maxtor (vl20). Plextor 1210a, so all of my ide channels are being used. And I got a 3com 905c nic, sb live value, pinnacle firewire, and tekram 390 uw (or something like that), running a pioneer 303 dvd, plextor ultraplex 32 and a yamaha 4260 cdrw. And im using a regular 300 w ps that followed the aopen hq08 tower. And im also running my athlon 700 at 850 with a gfd. This thing is extremely stable! havent had a single crash in win2k at all.

I haven't tried running it for that many days in a row, but I did a week without a single problem.

The only pci slot im not using is the one next to the agp slot, and I have the onboard sound enabled as well. No problems whatsoever.

 

[Kill_Phil]

lol, maby i should update the bios (was saving that as a last resort, kinda shaky about updating the bios, i killed one a few months back)

 

[knutp]

You might find some tips here: www.k7v.com