having lots of problems........

[Atticka]

sicne everybody and their grandma has a Abit KT7A board, maybe youguys can help me....

for the past two days I've been trying to get ME running on the Abit KT7A-Raid witn an AMD T-Bird at 1.1GHZ (not OC'd)

I've tried everything on this page http://www.athlonoc.com/FAQS/KT7FAQ/kt7faq.htm

here's what I'm experiancing....
it freezes under any type of load
listening to Winamp it freezes
loading IE, or a web page it freezes
loading Half Life, it freezes
and it sometimes freezes while booting....

FSB is runnign at 100 and I'm using PC-133 RAM
I have a Diamond MX-300 sound card with SB16 emulation disabled(latest drivers)
I have a ATI AIW 128 with the latest drivers installed
I have the VIA 4in1 drivers installed (4.29)
I've turned off AGP 4X
I've enabled the memory hole in the bios
I've moved sound cards, NIC's aroudn to different slots....

I'm going insane! it SHOULD work.....any suggestions? in the meantime I'm getting a enw sound card and ATI AIW Radeon.....

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Atticka
sorry, no time for a sig

[Kelvrick]

Sound like a pickle. Have you checked your temperatures? Maybe the heatsink isn't fastened properly so your cpu is heating up. Does it freeze whenever Windows finishes loading, or it will be good if you let it sit there but freeze when you want to do something? What kind of ram do you have? Is it in the right dim slot? Maybe it is 10 nan-ram and you have it on 8. Try upgrading to win2k. All I can think of right now.

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"Classic" Athlon 750@933, stupid crash
Abit KA-7
Radeon 32ddr Non-LE
Sound Blaster Live value
Quantum 15gig
128 Micron pc100
Win98se

[Atticka]

heat is fine....I have an Alpha PEP66 and teh cpu doesnt go over 36C

I'll double check the RAM settings and will get my hands on a copy of Win2k

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Atticka
sorry, no time for a sig

[Starr]

Originally posted by Atticka:
heat is fine....I have an Alpha PEP66 and teh cpu doesnt go over 36C

I'll double check the RAM settings and will get my hands on a copy of Win2k

Have you run a test on your ram just to make sure that is ok. I was having a lot of the problems that youre talking about, I ran a test using Norton Utilities Mine was just unstable enough that it would freeze up in some of the games and programs that I would run.
Just a thought.

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Abit kt7a-raid
AMD T-Bird 900mhz
Memory Kingmax 256 MB PC 150
cpu @ 900, FSB-PCI 100/33mhz,
FSB x11 = 1.0Gz
pr 1331 estimated
HSF fop38-1
AGP Power Color GeForce 2MX
Creative sound blaster live MP3+
Maxtor DiamondMax plus 45 Ultra dma 100
Creative CD-Rom 52X
Creative CD-RW 4832
Samsung Floppy
KY-69 Super Cool Case
17" Relisys Monitor
OS Windows ME

I'm with the tour group!!
but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

[This message has been edited by Starr (edited March 27, 2001).]

[Atticka]

well....I just got an ATI AIW Radeon and a SB Live Value.....hopefully that will resolvve a few things (accordign to the FAQ site, the MX300 is a no go)

I'll play around with the RAM settings as well...

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Atticka
sorry, no time for a sig

[Atticka]

it works!!

installed the new hardware and everything works......I'm soooo happy!!!

the culprit was the Diamond MX300.....

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Atticka
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