Well, my first day and a half with my first AMD chip is a total DISASTER!
My system:
1.4 AMD
EPOX 8k7a
Maxtor 30gig HD
256 Micron DDRram
Asus GeForce3 Deluxe
Creative Live!
Netgear 10/100 ethernet
Ataptec 2906 SCSI
After a setup of Windows, I finally got it to run properly in WinME...and it was great at first BUT...
1.)One moment, everything seemed to be going super fast, then super SLOW the next!
2.)The mouse kept hanging then it would come back...then it would hang again etc etc...
3.)ZIP drive was only partly accessable and NO file could be opened, file names were turning into garbled mess (looked like machine code). Trying to explore it hangs the machine.
4.)Strange chunky pauses in quake/mechwarrior4 (only games I tried)
5.)USB mouse and keyboard usage GONE sometimes on Windows entry (could only hit reset button to do anything).
6.)Rebooting the CPU clock set puts itself to 1gig (constantly changing it back to 1.4...checked the chip it IS a 1.4 AYHJA)
7.)Award bios check tells me I've DANGEROUSLY OVERCLOCKED my chip...I never overclock...the chip was/is not overclocked....AND the "overclocking" message said the chip was at 1gig..hmm my 1.4 overclocked "dangerously" at 1gig (?????). FYI, A bios flashed fixed this problem.
8.) Kept finding "new hardware" on every 3 Windows restarts...not sure what it was..the name of it was an all garbled mess!
SO, I took out the motherboard/chip/ram and replaced it with my old P3-650/ABIT BE6-II and placed all the cards back in it (at once) and rebooted back into Windows ME. After a few reboots (because it was reinstalling everything), ALL the problems were GONE....it was like I never had the AMD.
Don't get me wrong...**I WANT to like this CPU/motherboard!** If somebody can give me advice on how to fix this system, I'll keep it. I'm not going to mess with it too much though.
In my expirence, if it doesn't start up right the first time or I have to fight with it, then THAT's how it's going to be for the time I own it. And it's NOT something I want. There are no "challenges" to be conquered when it comes to my business/home machine.
My system:
1.4 AMD
EPOX 8k7a
Maxtor 30gig HD
256 Micron DDRram
Asus GeForce3 Deluxe
Creative Live!
Netgear 10/100 ethernet
Ataptec 2906 SCSI
After a setup of Windows, I finally got it to run properly in WinME...and it was great at first BUT...
1.)One moment, everything seemed to be going super fast, then super SLOW the next!
2.)The mouse kept hanging then it would come back...then it would hang again etc etc...
3.)ZIP drive was only partly accessable and NO file could be opened, file names were turning into garbled mess (looked like machine code). Trying to explore it hangs the machine.
4.)Strange chunky pauses in quake/mechwarrior4 (only games I tried)
5.)USB mouse and keyboard usage GONE sometimes on Windows entry (could only hit reset button to do anything).
6.)Rebooting the CPU clock set puts itself to 1gig (constantly changing it back to 1.4...checked the chip it IS a 1.4 AYHJA)
7.)Award bios check tells me I've DANGEROUSLY OVERCLOCKED my chip...I never overclock...the chip was/is not overclocked....AND the "overclocking" message said the chip was at 1gig..hmm my 1.4 overclocked "dangerously" at 1gig (?????). FYI, A bios flashed fixed this problem.
8.) Kept finding "new hardware" on every 3 Windows restarts...not sure what it was..the name of it was an all garbled mess!
SO, I took out the motherboard/chip/ram and replaced it with my old P3-650/ABIT BE6-II and placed all the cards back in it (at once) and rebooted back into Windows ME. After a few reboots (because it was reinstalling everything), ALL the problems were GONE....it was like I never had the AMD.
Don't get me wrong...**I WANT to like this CPU/motherboard!** If somebody can give me advice on how to fix this system, I'll keep it. I'm not going to mess with it too much though.
In my expirence, if it doesn't start up right the first time or I have to fight with it, then THAT's how it's going to be for the time I own it. And it's NOT something I want. There are no "challenges" to be conquered when it comes to my business/home machine.