ok, back in january i bought a kr7a-133r based on anandtech's strong review. i decided to be cheap and continue to use my vortex 2 sound card (diamond mx 300). i use windows xp pro as well. currently the system is as follows:
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amd xp 1700
kr7a-133r
1gb ddr ram
ati radeon 8500
creative audigy
adaptech uw scsi card
modem
tv card
intel nic
2 - maxtor 60gb 7200rpm (raid 0 config)
1 - maxtor 80gb 7200rpm
1 - seagate 4.5gb cheetah 10000 rpm (back from 1998 and still rocks)
1 - 20x scsi cdrom
1 - 4x scsi cdr
1 - ide dvd
300 watt power man power supply
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i experienced 4 fatal system crashes during the time frame of january through july, mostly registry corruptions...with the longest duration between crashes being 4 months, i really thought thinkgs were stable at this point. at this point i was frustrated to my wits end and went out and bought the maxtor 80gb so i wouldn't be booting off the raid and the audigy. i thought i was set, then less than a week later i crashed fatally again. i could never determine what happened because the computer would just keep rebooting itself while trying to load windows (even in safe and command prompt mode)
what's going on here???? am i under powered? if so, how much power should i have. i've been using via 4-in-1's in the past, do i really need them with xp?
thanks and any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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amd xp 1700
kr7a-133r
1gb ddr ram
ati radeon 8500
creative audigy
adaptech uw scsi card
modem
tv card
intel nic
2 - maxtor 60gb 7200rpm (raid 0 config)
1 - maxtor 80gb 7200rpm
1 - seagate 4.5gb cheetah 10000 rpm (back from 1998 and still rocks)
1 - 20x scsi cdrom
1 - 4x scsi cdr
1 - ide dvd
300 watt power man power supply
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i experienced 4 fatal system crashes during the time frame of january through july, mostly registry corruptions...with the longest duration between crashes being 4 months, i really thought thinkgs were stable at this point. at this point i was frustrated to my wits end and went out and bought the maxtor 80gb so i wouldn't be booting off the raid and the audigy. i thought i was set, then less than a week later i crashed fatally again. i could never determine what happened because the computer would just keep rebooting itself while trying to load windows (even in safe and command prompt mode)
what's going on here???? am i under powered? if so, how much power should i have. i've been using via 4-in-1's in the past, do i really need them with xp?
thanks and any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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