AthlonXP woes

[Mannycc]

I have an A7V133 and an XP1700+, i had BSODs, random reboots and programs dropping to teh desktop. I managed to fix the BSODs and the random reboots by raising my Corevoltage from 1.75 to 1.85 and the BSODs from making sure NOTHING shared an IRQ. however some programs will still drop to the desktop, like 3Dmark 2001SE only on the race tests. the rest run fine and so so all my other programs but i would like to get this resolved is there anything else i can do to get it more stabel i have the 1007 and 1008 bioses and the PCB version is 1.05 (no trailing period). Thanks

 

[Mannycc]

ahem...waiting...for...a...reply...

 

[networkman]

As a technical support type thought, why not replace the chip with a cheap Duron and see if the problems still exist or go away? If the problems still exist with a different chip, then the CPU likely wasn't the problem.

 

[rimshaker]

Sorry, you just have the all-too-common case of an A7V133 not working properly with an XP cpu. It's pretty much widely agreed upon that it's basically luck when it comes to plugging in an XP cpu in these boards. A small handful have successful working systems, but a ton of others had to give up and buy a more recent m/b. It almost doesn't even matter what board revision you have either, like i said it's all luck. I have an overclocked XP2000+ with my 1.04 revision board, jumperless, perfectly stable.

As long as you have at least bios 1007, it's not a bios issue. The only advice i could give is try setting everything in manual jumper mode. I've seen a few people that finally got stable systems after ditching the jumperless route.

 

[Mannycc]

i have tested it with a 1.4GHz and it worked flawlessly. I'll try the jumpered mode tomrow. Thanks

 

[KeillRandor]

I had great troubles with random reboots in WinXP/WinME with rev 1.05. BIOS 1007 using Athlon XP 1600+ (same problems both with softBIOS and jumpers) . When I flashed BIOS to 1008A all problems dissapeared.... I didn't have much hope that a BIOS upgrade would solve my problems... But I guess I am lucky. I shall mention I now run with jumpers @ 133 mhz.. (I have not dabbled with any voltage change so far...)

I have not tried the softBIOS with this new BIOS...(I think it will work too... But I'm optimistic..:cool... If you are interested I can post/PM my softBIOS results..

 

[daywalker]

<< Sorry, you just have the all-too-common case of an A7V133 not working properly with an XP cpu. It's pretty much widely agreed upon that it's basically luck when it comes to plugging in an XP cpu in these boards. A small handful have successful working systems, but a ton of others had to give up and buy a more recent m/b. It almost doesn't even matter what board revision you have either, like i said it's all luck. I have an overclocked XP2000+ with my 1.04 revision board, jumperless, perfectly stable.

As long as you have at least bios 1007, it's not a bios issue. The only advice i could give is try setting everything in manual jumper mode. I've seen a few people that finally got stable systems after ditching the jumperless route. >>



Why do you say that? I have an ASUS A7A-133PA with the Ali Magik1 chipset and yesterday i updated my bios to the 1011 varsion to support higher frequency AthlonXP processors. Today i plugged in my friend's AthlonXP 2100+ and worked the machine for 5 hours straight with no problems.

The man could have a deffective processor in his hands...

 

[gonzo2k]

Interesting to compare XP working with an Ali chipset when the poster is having problems with a VIA chipset.

Did you READ this thread?

 

[daywalker]

<< Interesting to compare XP working with an Ali chipset when the poster is having problems with a VIA chipset.

Did you READ this thread? >>



I thought that the man was reffering generally to (older) SDRAM motherboards thats why i brought up the example with my motherboard...

 

[cdsonic]

I'm having the exact same problems. I have a gigabyte 7vtx board with a 1700+ XP. I have tried a different power supply, I bought a APC ups and still no change. The board has onboard sound which i disabled to run a creative live card. So i have pulled out the live and turned the sound on to see if that is the problem. I might look at the voltages and irq though since it helped you. If you come up with a cure all please let me know.

Are you using WinXP??