soyo dragon plus and winXP not mixing well

[phatboi]

well, i put together my computer and i can't figure out why my computer won't work correctly. i'm running a soyo dragon plus, enermax 350w powersupply, thermoengine hsf for the XP 1600 processor, visiontek gf2 gts vid.card, and pioneer dvd, and crucial pc2100 256mb ddr ram. i put in 1 stick of ram and my video card, dvd, floppy, hd, barebones stuff. it booted fine, but once i get into WinXP, it either lags horribly, freezes when i open up a web brower, won't shut down, won't let me click on anything on the task bar, or all of the above. i've done everything i could think of, reassembled about a million times. i don't know if it's the OS, board, processor, or harddrive. any suggestions? thanks.

 

[ricerx]

my friend has a somewhat different problem with his dragon and XP. it won't even install XP. every other OS we tried worked fine (98, ME, 2000).

 

[Bglad]

This is common with the old bios. It didn't seem to like XP at all and was a bit unstable with 9x as well. Update the bios with the new one from the Soyo website. It seems to fix most of the problems.

I sorted out all my Dragon problems easily after reading through some old help threads on the Soyo motherboard forum at www.amdmb.com