new system and blue screens.

[SuperT]

okay heres the deal, i have been working on this system for a week now and i think i have it almost finished but...
when i try to load win2k sp2 or office 2000, i get a system lock (stop error) or a sudden reboot. then i need to run repair on the o/s by booting to the win2k disk and running repair, other wise i cant get the NIC to work again, not even after unistalling the card and reinstalling the card and drivers. i am positive this is hardware based. here are system specs:

1.4 GHz Athlon (266fsb) w/ volcano 5 and a/s 2
ECS K7VZA mobo
1 GB kingston pc 133
1 80 GB W.D. hdd @ 7200
1 60 GB Maxtor hdd @ 7200
24x Que CD-RW
GeForce 2 Pro w/64 MB
Linksys "Network Everywhere" NIC
Antec SX-830 case (300w)

Any ideas please ???? i have replaced the mobo already, why would it do this when loading big software programs ? bad ram ? processor ? i'm not o/c'ing, heat is about 42 C.

:disgust:

 

[SuperT]

bump, anyone?

 

[SuperT]

bump again, anyone at all ?

 

[Vegito]

Does sis have those mobo driver like the via that you have to install ? Also try using 1/2 the memory or 256mb to start with, add each memory till the problem persist or problem exist with 256mb memory also.

 

[SuperT]

thanks forcesho, the mobo i have is via kt133a northbridge with 4.32 4 in 1's installed. do you think its ram based ?

 

[SuperT]

^^^^^

 

[igowerf]

Have you tried running SP2 or Office 2k without the NIC in your system? I'd also try taking out some RAM and trying each stick or borrowing some RAM from a friend to test.

 

[SuperT]

i have 3 new sticks of 128mb to try. i will try to install sp2/office with no NIC, anything else ?

 

[bjc112]

Trying installin without the NIC.. OR with only 1 stick of ram... to make sure your ram isnt pad...

How big is your PSU?

 

[SuperT]

300 watt antec psu, ram is 2 sticks of 512 mb kingston.

 

[Rent]

I'd move the ram around too... my friend just found he had a bad piece of DDR in his system and it took us 2 days to figure it out.

Some systems are quirky like that unfortunately 🙁

 

[SuperT]

think that psu is enough? should i come down to 100mhz fsb to see if that helps?

 

[SuperT]

^^