Well, I replaced my Athlon 650@800 w/ a new 1600+ from NewEgg. I installed it with a new PAL8045 and I had previously installed the new bios to recognize the XP.
Anyway, I boot up and it gives me ALL sorts of problems in WinXP, locks up and when I reboot, it locked up during boot. I tried to reinstall but consistant lock ups upon reinstall, same if I tried to install Win2K. So i remove the c:/windows directory and re-install WinME...all is fine. Try to upgrade to Win2K or XP, and still locked up during install.
I re-installed Athlon 650@800, and installed WinXP with no fuss...do I have a bad Athlon XP, or a bad Epox 8K7A+?
Oh yeah, temps were around 42C with the XP and PAL8045, so that is not the problem.
Later
Anyway, I boot up and it gives me ALL sorts of problems in WinXP, locks up and when I reboot, it locked up during boot. I tried to reinstall but consistant lock ups upon reinstall, same if I tried to install Win2K. So i remove the c:/windows directory and re-install WinME...all is fine. Try to upgrade to Win2K or XP, and still locked up during install.
I re-installed Athlon 650@800, and installed WinXP with no fuss...do I have a bad Athlon XP, or a bad Epox 8K7A+?
Oh yeah, temps were around 42C with the XP and PAL8045, so that is not the problem.
Later