(UPDATE) DOA motherboard or PICNIC?

[MercenaryForHire]

Update - Well, I got a different error when I built it outside the case with only one stick of RAM. Still nothing working yet though.

Update 2 - OMFGWTF?! :Q It suddenly works in the case now! Still only one stick of RAM though. Further updates as it progresses.

God dammit. After weeks of waiting all the parts for my quasi-new machine have arrived, and it's not working.

Every time I try to install XP, it dies at around the same percentage each time. I've tried different cables, different drives both optical and HD, memtest shows negative, and Knoppix kernel-panics on me. The install media isn't bad - I just finished installing on this machine!

Athlon XP-M 1.2GHz (12x100)
ECS L7VMM3 (VIA KM266)
2x256MB Crucial PC2700 (default timings @ 133)
nVidia Quadro4 NVS 280

/me just wants to play some UT2K4

- M4H

 

[K1052]

Try one stick at a time yet?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: K1052
Try one stick at a time yet?

Yep. Same results.

- M4H

 

[Amorphus]

how about a diff. mobo?


*edit* well, I just saw the thread title ([I came from here).

my vote for doa mobo.

 

[K1052]

Yea, MB seems fvcked. It looks like you have covered everything else.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: K1052
Yea, MB seems fvcked. It looks like you have covered everything else.

Fvcking wonderful. It's brand fvcking new.

Well, at least it gives me an excuse to swap it for an nF2.

- M4H

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: K1052
Yea, MB seems fvcked. It looks like you have covered everything else.

Fvcking wonderful. It's brand fvcking new.

Well, at least it gives me an excuse to swap it for an nF2.

- M4H

You think thats good? One of my friends was having problems ripping mp3 from cd. It would go for about couple of minutes then just sit there with CPU usage pegged out. Tried everything, swapped every component. Finally I sent the board back (MSI). Never had another problem. Go figure.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: K1052
Yea, MB seems fvcked. It looks like you have covered everything else.

Fvcking wonderful. It's brand fvcking new.

Well, at least it gives me an excuse to swap it for an nF2.

- M4H

You think thats good? One of my friends was having problems ripping mp3 from cd. It would go for about couple of minutes then just sit there with CPU usage pegged out. Tried everything, swapped every component. Finally I sent the board back (MSI). Never had another problem. Go figure.

Foolish me for trying to upgrade, I should have just been happy with my curr-*SLAP*

Damn, dude, pull yourself together! :Q

- M4H

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Bump for update and a glimmer of hope and an OMFGWTF it works!

- M4H

 

[rbV5]

Have you tried flashing to a different BIOS?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

:heart:

It works. I don't know WTF I did - because I didn't do anything - but it's working fine now.

*copies UT2K4 demo over from fileserver*

Time to stomp some heads. :evil:

- M4H