J
jprugen
Ok, I'm having a problem with my computer. I have an A7N8X, Athlon XP
2700+, GeForce 4400 Ti, Audigy 2, Corsair 512MB PC3200 memory (single
stick), CD-Rom, DVD-Rom/CD-RW, and 2 hard drives. I am running Windows
XP home. I'm posting here because my current inclination is to blame
something on the motherboard.
I tend to leave my computer on 24/7. On Thursday morning, my computer
was frozen when I went to use it so I rebooted it and checked email
before going to work. That night when I got home, it was frozen again,
and when I rebooted, it would always freeze on the black "Loading
Windows XP" screen. I spent the rest of the night trying to get things
to work, including trying to reinstall XP on top of my original install.
The machine would always lock up at some point. I ended up even backing
out to an old 4MB video card and no sound card -- same problems.
Friday morning I downloaded MemTest86 and a Western digital diagnostic
program (i only had one WD hard drive at the time, btw). The memtest
program has never failed (running tests 1-7 anyway). The WD diagnostic
low-level check said there were errors but they were repaired, but the
quick check timed out, which supposedly indicates a problem with the
drive. So I bought a new hard drive. I couldn't get that one working.
So I try to replace the motherboard. The new board didn't work either
(long story), but during the process, I cleared the CMOS on my old
board. I then put my old board back in to play around more, figuring
I'd update the CMOS settings later, and what do you know, things started
to work.
It now appears that XP runs stably when I set the FSB on my board to
100MHz. It fails at 133 and 166. I was originally running it slightly
overclocked at 173 (since March). The memory test program still works
fine at 166, so I'm thinking that means the CPU and RAM are ok. It
sounds like the motherboard to me. Does this make sense? Does anyone
know any other diagnostics I could try running on this? Thanks for any
help.
Jeff
2700+, GeForce 4400 Ti, Audigy 2, Corsair 512MB PC3200 memory (single
stick), CD-Rom, DVD-Rom/CD-RW, and 2 hard drives. I am running Windows
XP home. I'm posting here because my current inclination is to blame
something on the motherboard.
I tend to leave my computer on 24/7. On Thursday morning, my computer
was frozen when I went to use it so I rebooted it and checked email
before going to work. That night when I got home, it was frozen again,
and when I rebooted, it would always freeze on the black "Loading
Windows XP" screen. I spent the rest of the night trying to get things
to work, including trying to reinstall XP on top of my original install.
The machine would always lock up at some point. I ended up even backing
out to an old 4MB video card and no sound card -- same problems.
Friday morning I downloaded MemTest86 and a Western digital diagnostic
program (i only had one WD hard drive at the time, btw). The memtest
program has never failed (running tests 1-7 anyway). The WD diagnostic
low-level check said there were errors but they were repaired, but the
quick check timed out, which supposedly indicates a problem with the
drive. So I bought a new hard drive. I couldn't get that one working.
So I try to replace the motherboard. The new board didn't work either
(long story), but during the process, I cleared the CMOS on my old
board. I then put my old board back in to play around more, figuring
I'd update the CMOS settings later, and what do you know, things started
to work.
It now appears that XP runs stably when I set the FSB on my board to
100MHz. It fails at 133 and 166. I was originally running it slightly
overclocked at 173 (since March). The memory test program still works
fine at 166, so I'm thinking that means the CPU and RAM are ok. It
sounds like the motherboard to me. Does this make sense? Does anyone
know any other diagnostics I could try running on this? Thanks for any
help.
Jeff