I was troubleshooting a computer for a friend....says it was freezing on him, later questioning revealed mostly occurs when he trys to play a game over the nic card with his dad's computer.
650 tbird
FIC AZ11 mobo
384mb pc100 ram
sblive
Geforce 2 mx
D-link nic card
First thing I looked at was heat and ruled that out quickly...
Then I looked at PS...sandra reported something quite confusing
core = 3.1v
3.3v = 3.44v
5v = 6.49v
12v = 14.9v
I said WTH...it can't be right...MBM reported same thing so I am sure the sensor on the board must be haywire.
I tried another PS that I know works with my old 750tbird...got same funny readings. Figured it was fine.
Installed via 4.32 drivers to insure sblive was a none issue....he used old drivers on disk...he has a 686a southbridge so the sblive may have been a non issue, but felt the latest via drivers should be warranted
Reinstalled directx8.0 and vid card drivers
Looked and found nic card was sharing an irq with usb controllers...jockeyed some slots around and got it to be on its own irq channel....
All seems to be working so far....
However what do you think is the cause for the erroneous voltages readings?
Also sandra reported that the agp was 100mhz (without the 4x taken into account), pci was 50mhz using a 1/2 multiplier (on a 100fsb chip), isa was also higher then specs....
It gave the warning that they were out of spec at the bottom. I can't imagine this is correct as well as I can't see any of those cards running at the 50mhz pci without some kind of BSOD. He has not had any of them...
I checked, the board was jumpered correctly...nonetheless I cleared cmos and started over...no change.
Could the guy who put the system together flashed the mobo with the wrong bios...maybe for like one of the kt133a chipsets? Sandra detects it is the kt133 with 686a southbridge...
Any ideas would be appreciated as this has me moderately concerned...
650 tbird
FIC AZ11 mobo
384mb pc100 ram
sblive
Geforce 2 mx
D-link nic card
First thing I looked at was heat and ruled that out quickly...
Then I looked at PS...sandra reported something quite confusing
core = 3.1v
3.3v = 3.44v
5v = 6.49v
12v = 14.9v
I said WTH...it can't be right...MBM reported same thing so I am sure the sensor on the board must be haywire.
I tried another PS that I know works with my old 750tbird...got same funny readings. Figured it was fine.
Installed via 4.32 drivers to insure sblive was a none issue....he used old drivers on disk...he has a 686a southbridge so the sblive may have been a non issue, but felt the latest via drivers should be warranted
Reinstalled directx8.0 and vid card drivers
Looked and found nic card was sharing an irq with usb controllers...jockeyed some slots around and got it to be on its own irq channel....
All seems to be working so far....
However what do you think is the cause for the erroneous voltages readings?
Also sandra reported that the agp was 100mhz (without the 4x taken into account), pci was 50mhz using a 1/2 multiplier (on a 100fsb chip), isa was also higher then specs....
It gave the warning that they were out of spec at the bottom. I can't imagine this is correct as well as I can't see any of those cards running at the 50mhz pci without some kind of BSOD. He has not had any of them...
I checked, the board was jumpered correctly...nonetheless I cleared cmos and started over...no change.
Could the guy who put the system together flashed the mobo with the wrong bios...maybe for like one of the kt133a chipsets? Sandra detects it is the kt133 with 686a southbridge...
Any ideas would be appreciated as this has me moderately concerned...
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