Ok here is my situation
system
PC Chips M817LMR mobo
1.4 Athlon 266 FSB
256MB DDR
GeForce MX200 32MB
Win XP
current definitions on Norton AV
My system crapped out on me. It has run flawlessly for a long time. I was doing nothing strenous to the computer, just casual use, I had just installed and run WinImage 6.0, a floppy disk utility. Then I assume coincidently that the WinImage program had no effect on this but my video started weirding out, changing colors, so I rebooted, well it came back up to Windows login screen it would just lock up.
I replaced the video card with a Savage card, no fix
I replaced the video card with a ATI All In Wonder Rage 128 16MB, nothing
I replaced the video card with an Intel 740 8MB video card and it works
I tried replaceing ram with 128MB of PC100 SDRAM, to see if it is a memory problem, doesnt appear to be a memory problem
When i changed back to DDR ram I am unable to run the mobo at 266FSB anymore, will only run at 200FSB
when restarting the computer it now only shows the CPU as an Athlon 1050Mhz
I went in to the Bios to see what was going on with the speed and in the Bios it shows CPU Speed ,"
thats right a comma and apostrophe
I have upgraded and downgraded bios and nothing seems to help
It is more than a driver issue because I have put in a different hard drive and tried to load XP and the video was really screwed up.
under dos commands every thing shows
The computer works with the 8MB video card in, but 8MB video isnt gonna cut it and I do notice a difference in performance because of the slower processor speed and the loss of 266 FSB
What is most likely to be my problem? Should I replace the motherboard or is my processor toast? and how did the video card go bad in this whole deal?
Any help appreciated.
system
PC Chips M817LMR mobo
1.4 Athlon 266 FSB
256MB DDR
GeForce MX200 32MB
Win XP
current definitions on Norton AV
My system crapped out on me. It has run flawlessly for a long time. I was doing nothing strenous to the computer, just casual use, I had just installed and run WinImage 6.0, a floppy disk utility. Then I assume coincidently that the WinImage program had no effect on this but my video started weirding out, changing colors, so I rebooted, well it came back up to Windows login screen it would just lock up.
I replaced the video card with a Savage card, no fix
I replaced the video card with a ATI All In Wonder Rage 128 16MB, nothing
I replaced the video card with an Intel 740 8MB video card and it works
I tried replaceing ram with 128MB of PC100 SDRAM, to see if it is a memory problem, doesnt appear to be a memory problem
When i changed back to DDR ram I am unable to run the mobo at 266FSB anymore, will only run at 200FSB
when restarting the computer it now only shows the CPU as an Athlon 1050Mhz
I went in to the Bios to see what was going on with the speed and in the Bios it shows CPU Speed ,"
thats right a comma and apostrophe
I have upgraded and downgraded bios and nothing seems to help
It is more than a driver issue because I have put in a different hard drive and tried to load XP and the video was really screwed up.
under dos commands every thing shows
The computer works with the 8MB video card in, but 8MB video isnt gonna cut it and I do notice a difference in performance because of the slower processor speed and the loss of 266 FSB
What is most likely to be my problem? Should I replace the motherboard or is my processor toast? and how did the video card go bad in this whole deal?
Any help appreciated.
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