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kt3 mobo issues...

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trinkulus

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If I'm posting this in the wrong forum please excuse me. I must be on 20 message boards now trying to find some solutions. I just finished building a new computer and I have 2 troubles. For reference this is my computer:
MSI kt333 6380e mobo
AMD athlon 2000xp
kingston 512 k ddr
antec 350w psu (230w on the 3.3 and 5 V combined lines)
40G IBM HD
10G Fireball HD
Plextor 24x cd burner
Toshiba 2x dvd
MSI GeForce 2 pro
CTX monitor

I have 2 problems. I can't seem to get my on board sound working. If I have the codec enabled in the bios and I try and load the drivers from the cd it tells me to enable it from the bios. If I have it disabled in the bios then the drivers don't appear on the setup menu from the driver cd.
My second problem is video related. I get these grey lines that extend from the sides of boxes or dark lines. Such if you had a white screen with a grey box in the middle I'd have dark grey lines extend from the sides of the box horizontally but the rest of the screen would be fine. These lines only darken the screen and can be seen through. I've tried a different video card, a new monitor and even wiped the drive and did a fresh reinstall of win 98se and the video drivers. Also I get a "signal out of range" and the only way to stop that is to set the video options down to the very minimums. The video card worked fine when I first bought it and this problem developed about 3 months ago. Any help in any of these issues would be appreciated. If there is any more info I need to give please ask. Thanks.
 
Well relating to the video problem I did used to have the card in another computer and it developed the same problem over some time. I had hoped this issue was a bad agp slot on my old computer so I decided it was time to build a new one. That apparently hasn't fixed it.
 
I sugget a completely fresh start. Remove the partitions on your current harddrive. Then, clear the CMOS on your motherboard. Then, take apart your computer and rebuild it. Make completely sure that all cords are connected 100% properly and all jumpers are in their proper positions. See what happens. If problems still persist I would guess that your problem is related to your motherboard, memory, or CPU. If you have two sticks of memory just put one in at a time to test them.
 
I guess tonight I'll start by formatting again. The mobo, athlon, and ram are all new so I'm hoping there is no problem with them. I've never cleared the cmos before. I know what I have to do but what does this do exactly? Just reset the board to cmos defaults? Thanks for the help so far.
 
Well it looks like I have bigger problems now. I erased and set the new partition. When it rebooted nothing came up, so I rebooted with my startup disk and I get a runtime error 200 at 0950:0091. This is the standard windows restart disk you get with a gateway computer. I've been using it just fine till now. Is it the disk or is there some other problem? I have not cleared the cmos yet.
 
Sounds like the motherboard to me, thought it may not be lost. A friend of mine was having similar problems not being able to enable the sound, and general instability. It turns out something in his case was shorting out his motherboard, I would take apart the system do good cleaning of the motherboard and case. It could be somthing as simple as a striped out screw that left some small metal fragments on the motherboard, I?ve seen it happen before.
 
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