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need A7V help please

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ikaika1

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Ok, my cousin recently purchased himself a new duron and an A7V as an upgrade to his old k6-2. Of course after a huge case/powersupply/cooling fiasco, we finally have all the parts and put the damn thing together. First boot, it runs flawlessly with all of his old hardware, and NON formatted HD installed. W2k then informs him that he needs to resinstall all of his drivers. I am no longer present so he proceeds to close and cancel all the dialogues and restart his computer... Now all it will do is hang on boot. It gets to the screen with the blue rectangle bar and it gets half way and hangs. I dont know whats wrong with it. We removed all of the pci cards and just left his V3. Is it possible that his V3 has sidebanding enabled and that 4x AGP and sidebanding is stopping the boot? (BTW how do i turn off agp 4x on an A7V i dont see the option in the bios and its freaking me out.) Safe mode works fine, but we cant get a boot into the regular desktop. We didnt install any new 4 in 1s or AGP drivers, its basically just as it came. Im stuck... and Im starting to wonder if its the ATA 100 controller screwing everything up... Do i have to install drivers for it under W2k before the mobo works properly? Any help is appreciated.

Duron 650
generic PC 100 ram
Maxtor HD
generic CD
zip CDrw
(nothing else in there anyway
 
1. Set Voltage to 1.85
2. Drivers must be installed in OS before the Ata will work
3. Read the manual about the agp4x. I also thought it was the 4x but the voltage was the problem.
4. Tweak one setting @ a time in bios. So you can backtrack the problem when these issues occur in the future
 
I dont know much about W2K but to change a motherboard and a CPU with out a format/clean install is asking for trouble.

Opp's you found it already.
 
You can get by without a clean install by going into the system manager and deleting the bus first then shut down and switch boards. A clean install is preferred though.

You need to install the 4 in 1 drivers, the promise drivers, and pc probe (to monitor cpu temp etc..) and maybe update your bios to 1003 or 1004a if your lucky. 1004a doesn't work so hot for many. Once you get the system stable then try installing you sound card and any pci's one at a time. Reboot and check IRQ's in between devices. You can free up two valuable IRQ's by disabling the two onboard com ports (if you don't plug an external modem or anything into them). Good luck.
 
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