I've been tackling this issue with my KV8 (not SE) Deluxe for about a year (purchased in 02/04). If I play any graphics intensive game, the system reboots after about 20 minutes of playing. I used to have a Sapphire 9600XT when this first occured and I attacked the problem from the point of it being a video card issue.
I lowered the AGP to 4x, turned cool'n'quiet off, then on, set bios to default, ran memtest (successfully), ran CPU Burn-in (successfully), moved memory to slots 1/2 & 1/3, swapped them around, replaced my PSU, I loaded the lastest video drivers (or back rev'd them) and checked cooling. I tried seeing if Windows logs could provide insight. I've unchecked the auto restart in Start and Recovery and didn't get a blue screen. But each crash does write to the minidump file. Unfortunately I don't know how to decypher them.
I never upgraded the bios from 1003. I don't like messing with them unless it specifically address a pertinent problem. I've "googled" around and found horror stories on bios update with this board.
I finally gave up. RMA's my vid card and bought a Leadtek 6800. Same thing.
I contacted ASUS support via the onsite tech support 2 weeks ago. No reply!
Anyone have any ideas? Thanx in advance.
CPU: AMD 64 3200+
MB: Asus KV8 Deluxe
Ram: 1 GB (512x2) Kingston DDR PC- 3200
PSU: POWMAX 450 Watts
Video: Leadtek A400 TDH
OS: Windows XP Pro SP2
I lowered the AGP to 4x, turned cool'n'quiet off, then on, set bios to default, ran memtest (successfully), ran CPU Burn-in (successfully), moved memory to slots 1/2 & 1/3, swapped them around, replaced my PSU, I loaded the lastest video drivers (or back rev'd them) and checked cooling. I tried seeing if Windows logs could provide insight. I've unchecked the auto restart in Start and Recovery and didn't get a blue screen. But each crash does write to the minidump file. Unfortunately I don't know how to decypher them.
I never upgraded the bios from 1003. I don't like messing with them unless it specifically address a pertinent problem. I've "googled" around and found horror stories on bios update with this board.
I finally gave up. RMA's my vid card and bought a Leadtek 6800. Same thing.
I contacted ASUS support via the onsite tech support 2 weeks ago. No reply!
Anyone have any ideas? Thanx in advance.
CPU: AMD 64 3200+
MB: Asus KV8 Deluxe
Ram: 1 GB (512x2) Kingston DDR PC- 3200
PSU: POWMAX 450 Watts
Video: Leadtek A400 TDH
OS: Windows XP Pro SP2