Hi guys, I am having a heck of a time with a mobo that I picked up from a local computer show. It is a FIC FR33 mATX board with the VIA 686A southbridge on it. The problem is I have loaded WinXP on it and it will work fine for a couple of minutes then I begin to get the errors (BSODs). I have received "Windows Protection Errors" and various others rendering the board unable to boot the OS in any mode. I have tried Win98SE and Win2k with the same problems.
Here has been the setup:
-- FIC FR33
--300W TopPower PSU
-- Celeron 366 PPGA
-- 8.4GB WD HDD
-- 128MB of memory
-- PCI modem
** All hardware is detected without a problem in the BIOS**
The onboard sound is enabled as well as the onboard video. Is it possible that the memory, which is low-density, i think, it works in BX boards is causing this? Does anyone know if the VIA northbridge has problems completely accessing both sides of the memory (aka 64MB on each side, double sided)? Could the southbridge be going resulting in the booting errors? The board looks like new and shows no signs of abuse at all. Please LMK what you think or if you have ran into a similar situation before.
Here has been the setup:
-- FIC FR33
--300W TopPower PSU
-- Celeron 366 PPGA
-- 8.4GB WD HDD
-- 128MB of memory
-- PCI modem
** All hardware is detected without a problem in the BIOS**
The onboard sound is enabled as well as the onboard video. Is it possible that the memory, which is low-density, i think, it works in BX boards is causing this? Does anyone know if the VIA northbridge has problems completely accessing both sides of the memory (aka 64MB on each side, double sided)? Could the southbridge be going resulting in the booting errors? The board looks like new and shows no signs of abuse at all. Please LMK what you think or if you have ran into a similar situation before.
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