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Need A7V help!

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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)
 
Holy sh!t, you actually got into Windows 2000 with this new motherboard?

I switch recently from a Asus P3B-F and Cely 500 to a Asus A7V and Thunderbird 1ghz.

I tried to load win2k, but like I figured, and like normal, not a chance. Blue screen of death before it even got in windows.

Format the drive, reinstall Windows, and you should be well on your way.
 
Ok so... theres NOTHING wrong with his computer? Its just the fact that W2K hates to have major hardware swapped? What a b!tch. So formatting and reinstalling W2k will fix this then? Isnt there another way? ARG!
 
Thats correct, you changed from one chipset to another, win2k espically hates that! I got 98 to boot and "work" for about a day, then things just totally messed.

So, I reinstalled both operating systems, and away she went. 😉
 
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