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Old System Driving Me Insane...

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tuffgong

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I have an old Slot 1 Motherboard (Legend QDI BrilliantX 1).

Whenever I boot up, try to partition the drives or even install an OS it freezes. I have switched RAM, Hard Drives and CPUs and nothing can stop the freezing.

Could this be a power issue? I am using a 250w PSU. Additionally, I have Networking, Sound and USB PCI cards inthere, as well as an ISA Scanner card.

Could something be wrong with the motherboard? Sometimes when I format the drive it gets to 99% and stops even though BIOS reads the hard disk properly.

I am mixing RAM, but I have also tried one stick at a time to no avail.
 
Have you tried resetting the CMOS (usually involves moving a jumper on the motherboard); the manual, if you have it, should have instructions).

Might be your PSU; have you tried booting with minimal hardware (video, drives and memory)?

 
have tried minimal hardware as well as different video card, cpu and ram. i even took the HD and DVD-ROM out and it still froze...memtest shows no errors but does freeze. i'll try the cmos.

update - cleared cmos...same problem...what on earth could it be?
 
looks like it was the cpu...its supposedly supported but my guess is that it really isnt. bios recognizes it fine which is strange. perhaps it was overheating...it has a passive heatsink. even bios was giving me low temps though.
 
Good to hear. If your case design allows, try to get a fan to blow across the CPU, I'm guessing it's a Pentium II proc, 266-400 MHz range; I've got one in my older system but it's got the fan built in to the heatsink.

alzan
 
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