My Epox 8k7a has a mind of it's own.

[Bellweather]

My 8k7a is doing some really goofy stuff. It boots successfully about a quarter of the time. During bootup, it will do one of four things.

1. Restart before before my desktop appears in windows.
2. Give me a "windows error, please restart" message.
2. Throw the blue screen of death at me once I move the mouse in windows.
3. Boot successfully.

I changed my motherboard from an abit kt7 to the epox, and changed the ram. I have updated all the drivers that I can think of, except for a bios flash. This is probably a windows problem, so I probably should try to reinstall windows. What do you think? Thanks to all.

 

[mchammer187]

do a bios flash for sure mine did that when i turned the FSB too high also

 

[NelsonMuntz]

I had an issue like that when I installed new drivers for my video card without unistalling the old ones first. I ended up doing a fresh install of my operating system and then reinstalling the video card with the new drivers.

 

[fishingeek]

Its always a good idea to do a clean install with a new motherboard.

 

[Xesh]

Might it be a PSU problem? I can't think of how changing the mobo and ram would affect that, but hey, it's an idea.

 

[UselessInfo]

My guess is also that it's a windows problem. Reinstall?

 

[majewski9]

Thats a windows prob! I don't see how a bios flash would fix, but flash your bios and format your hard drive!

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

I second the powersupply possibility. What do you have juicing that machine?

 

[Muse]

<< Thats a windows prob! I don't see how a bios flash would fix, but flash your bios and format your hard drive! >>



You might try getting into Device Manager when you can and deleting all your devices and then restarting. Things might configure OK after that.

 

[Siva]

restarts point to high fsb or PSU problem, but might be a windows error

 

[formulav8]

I third the power supply.

 

[formulav8]

double post

 

[DARRIN]

If it was running fine before the mobo switch I don't think that it is the power supply. I always reinstall Winblows if I change motherboards. You might try just installing windows overtop. Boot from a win98 startup disk, select boot with CD ROM support, then type &quot;setup&quot; at your CD rom prompt. Note your CD ROM drive will be one letter higher. You shouldn't lose anything doing it like this. And it only takes 20 min or so.