a7v333 winxp install problems Need Help, K-BYTE MEMORY

[Dominick LoGiudice]

hi.

Sorry to bother everyone, I am having a very bad experience with ASUS
A7V333, I have used ASUS TUV4X no problems,
I have got the max life I could from the asus p5a and p5ab, But the
ASUS A7V333 with xp-2200 is killing me.
I have scoured all newsgroups and found many people have problems with
xp and a7v333. The are many disagreements
with memory and vid1 and vid2 setting. I have 512mb of 2700 kbyte
memory ( which to me is kingston) how can I test this
and what should this be set as with regard to jumpers. yesterday I
tried loading machine all day and i looked at cpu temperature
in the bios hardware and it said about 80 fahrenheit which I do not
believe is overheating because of fan and heatsink

My main problem is errors trying to load winxp I have gotten errors
during load concerning every known driver or sys file that
microsoft has created. I am getting a new cd today and I will try it
out to see if it is cd problem . Even when i think cd is loading it
runs like a snail

i need help
Thanks

 

[Wazza]

Usually if you are having problems loading the O/S then look to RAM first
than maybe the CD Rom drive.

 

[dan]

k-byte sucks try kingston

 

[the gnome]

k-byte sucks try kingston

Is the memory one stick or two.

In BIOS set everything to auto and choose correct CPU speed.

Set 1 to 1 ram speed

The temp is far too high, I suggest you refit the heatsink and fan.

I have only seen that temp once before and that was when the builder forgot
to remove the plastic tab on the pink chewing gum paste before fitting,
obviously you wouldn't have done that.

Try arctic silver or a similar heat sink paste from coolermaster.

Get the machine ticking over at about 50 C with the case open.

Once you have that, try placing the memory in different slots, 3 is
sometimes good, if you have one stick or 1 and 3 if you have 2 sticks of
RAM.

Then run a program called memtest or similar and see what that does, and if
all is OK, recheck temp.

Then install WinXP with all peripherals disabled, such as USB ports etc.so
the OS only finds the video and keyboard and mouse and the system board
bits.

Then once that is stable enable everything else in BIOS and get them
installed.

Win 2000 setting in BIOS is for OS NOT PnP, maybe the same for XP.

See how you get on.


the_gnome