Weird problems with new system . . . NForce mobo

[XMan]

So I upgraded from an AK31/1GHz/PC1600 rig to NV7-133R/1900+/PC2100 rig with dual Special Edition Western Digitals in RAID0.

Assembled everything last night, tried to install Windows 2000 Professional. Ran into all kinds of problems, crashing, instability, etc. When I tried to download SP2, it would tell me, "Unknown hard error."

Getting pissed, I wiped the drives, reformatted, and installed 98SE. So far it's smooth as butter, no problems at all.

Why would there be such a difference?

 

[XMan]

Any ideas?

 

[Pederv]

You might want to put your memory through some tests. 2K will find memory problems that 98 won't notice.

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: Pederv
You might want to put your memory through some tests. 2K will find memory problems that 98 won't notice.

I used the memory in Windows 2000 for ~2 weeks on my AK31; no problems.

I had it up and running with Windows 98SE, but all of my data backups were in NTFS format on my backup drive. So I re-installed Windows 2000.

Seemed like the best way to do it was to disable all the onboard stuff - USB 2.0, sound, network, and something called APIC? - and then install it. So far, so good; I'm downloading all of the latest patches and crap, then I'm going to re-enable the onboard devices one by one.

 

[XMan]

Hmm, things are coming together. It looks like that APIC thing in the BIOS, whatever it was, was causing the problem. I enabled all of the onboard gear and installed their drivers, and stuff seems to be working pretty good.

Oh! I also pulled the heatsink off and applied a little more thermal goop, too. The load temps run around 53 degrees Celsius.

 

[corgidog]

How many sticks of RAM and what memory slots are you using?

A friend just built a new nForce system with XP Pro and had problems with spontaneous reboots and crashes/windows errors in games. He tried Win 2000 with same results. Turns out he had put his two sticks of 128mb PC2100 RAM in memory slots 1 and 2. Due to the TwinBank memory feature of the nForce chipset if you are using two sticks of memory they need to be in slot 0 and slot 1. Once he moved them everything was fine.

 

[XMan]

Two sticks of RAM. They are in the proper slots.

The only problem I'm having now is with USB 2.0. If I transfer too many files from the external disk to the RAID array, the sytem locks up and gives me a BSOD regarding the driver file for USB 2.0, ousbehc.sys.

 

[NesuD]

Don't know about win2000 but that apic thing can be a nice feature in xp. When you install xp at the point it prompts you to hit f6 if you need to install a driver for like a promise raid controller also hit f5 and select apic uniprocesser from the menu it will give you. One of the things it does is give you 22 irqs. of course i have no idea if it is the same way in 2000 but it is there in xp and it seems to make a significant difference in performance and stability from what i read in msi's nforce forums.