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Random hangs on new system with XP Pro.

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jkostans

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These are the system specs:

ANTEC SLK1650 case w/ ANTEC 350w power supply
A64 3000+ stock heatsink (BIOS reportsCPU running at 18 C for some reason, system temp is in 30s C)
Chaintech VNF3-250 nForce 250 mobo
1GB Mushkin PC3200 (2x512)
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB
2 Hitachi 160GB HDs
Samsung 52x32x52x16 DVD-ROM/CD-R
MS keyboard and mouse

I originally had problems with the system hanging with a somewhat garbled screen during ther POST screen (or whatever screen you see the processor model/speed and IDE devices etc). I solved this by booting the computer with an old geforce 2 ultra and changing some BIOS settings which allowed the system to boot with the 9800 PRO. After that I installed Windows XP Pro plus SP1 and all the latest security patches and drivers for all the hardware. Everything was working perfectly for about a day, then the computer started hanging at random times. Somtimes while playing doom3, others while just listening to music. Sometime it hangs while idle for a while. I would really appreciate any suggestions on solving this problem.
 
I'm replying to this incase someone searches and has this same problem. What seemed to work for me was slowing down the RAM timings and setting the DDR Skew Adjust to "1" (hasn't hung since). This seems to be a common problem with this motherboard from what I've read. That and from my experience it doesn't like the ATI 9800 Pro very much. I know anandtech has a great review of this motherboard, but when chaintech says "This board might have problems with some Ati based cards and is
recommended to test this board with an nvidia based card", I would say avoid it. And yes, that is the exact sentance from an email they sent me regarding this problem. I mean if there is really a known issue like this, why the hell would they not let the consumer know? Instead they boast about anand's review which tests the board with an ATI Radeon PRO! I'm not saying chaintech is a bad mobo company, because I've had several of their motherboards all with 100% stability. It's just this particular motherboard seems like it underwent a pretty poor QA process.
 
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