this Asus A7V333 is killing me

Gonx

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Hi to all!

I've a Asus A7V333 rev 1.01 bios 1015, and i'm having big trouble with it. Since i've upgrated to bios 1013 (from 1012), i've started to have problems with warm boot. I always upgrade my bios with a MS-DOS disk with aflash. It started to hang during restarts, or just corrupted my SO. I've thought that a new bios would fix this problem, but nothing. I've updated to bios 1014 and them to 1015, but no help. I've also tried to downgrade the bios to 1011, or 1012 or 1010 but the problem continued.
After that, i've thought that could be power supply problems. I've have change from a OEM (original Task) 300W to a chiefteck 360w, but also no go. Them i've thought that could be a memory problem. I've changed the 2 dimm DDR 2100 OEM to 2 Kingstone DDR 2700. No go. I've tried to change the dimm banks, but also nothing. I've tested with several SO, from win XP (with and without SP1), win2k, winME, win98, Red Hat, With NTFS, FAT32, and linux.
I'm not making any overclock.

But the wierd stuff is that, if i've start normally (cold boot) i've no problem at all. All runs great. But if i have to restart the computer, it hangs during boot (stop when the energy star symbol appears) or runs throught boot but when it's starting to run windows it says that my SO is corrupted and you have to repair your windows instalation.

Could you help me?

Waiting for a quick anwser, Gonçalo


P.S- Sorry for my english, it's not my 1st language.
 

Gonx

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temps-

Mb- 27C/ 80F
CPU- 40C/104F

(idle), full load just more 5C

any more help?
 

Speedy3D!

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what processor are you using?

It might be an overheating issue with the clock generator chip?
 

Gonx

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Originally posted by: Gonx

i'm using a simple Athlon XP 1700+. no overclocks what so ever. Yes, i've tried to disable the ACPI, but nothing new.

"It might be an overheating issue with the clock generator chip?" how can i find that?
 

CraigRT

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Forget all this crap you are doing.... the thing doesn't work right... RMA the mobo... there is nothing more you can do.
 

Gonx

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Hi to all, just RMA the A7V333, and bought a A7V8X while waiting for the A7V333. No problems what so ever. It was really the board. Thx for your help!!!!