Urgent help needed with new system!

[MasterShredder]

Okay.. i've been trying to get this computer working for the past 12 hours with no luck... this is what i ordered:

Soyo K7V Dragon Plus motherboard
Crutial 256 Meg PC2100 DDR
ATI Radeon 8500 Retail
Athlon XP 1900+
Enermax 431 Watt powersupply
Antec SX-830 case
Alpha PAL 8045 HS
Maxtor 40gig 7200 RPM ATA133

Everthing turns on and runs fine. In the BIOS, it shows my processor running at 38-41C depending how long it's been going for... now the problem i'm having is installing ANY operating system. First I tried XP, then I tried 2000, then I tried 98. They all fail or blue screen during setup, or they just completely lock up my computer all together. The farthest i've gotten is XP formatting the drive, copying the files over, then when it's in the middle of setting up the OS, it just blue screens with some message telling me that my motherboard doesn't support Advanced Power management or some other BS that i know isn't true.. I've even flashed my BIOS and reset the CMOS.

I don't know what to do here... i've reseated the CPU twice, remounted the motherboard, reseated the RAM, and tried a different hard drive... i don't have really any other equipment that I can just swap this with.. if anyone has any suggestions, i desperately need them now.. Thanks.

 

[Shroom42]

Okay, first thing to check then is the power management settings in the BIOS. Just because it supports APM doesn't mean it's enabled by default. Go into the BIOS and find the setting; if it's not enabled, try enabling it. If if it enabled, try turning it off. See if that helps. Also, check the current rating on the power supply for the +5V leg and make sure it's at least 12A or so for the Athlon CPU.

Jeff Sand
jsand@interaccess.com

 

[MasterShredder]

<< Okay, first thing to check then is the power management settings in the BIOS. Just because it supports APM doesn't mean it's enabled by default. Go into the BIOS and find the setting; if it's not enabled, try enabling it. If if it enabled, try turning it off. See if that helps. Also, check the current rating on the power supply for the +5V leg and make sure it's at least 12A or so for the Athlon CPU.

Jeff Sand
jsand@interaccess.com >>



I went into the power options but didn't see any kind of setting about enabling or disabling APM anywhere. If anyone has this board and knows where to go, i'd appreciate it.. I just hope I dont have to RMA anything