Hi, y'all... Wrote to say I had to prematurely retire my Voodoo5. And temporarily switched sides... I got that GF4Ti4200 deal at Best Buy.
I had a fully stable AMD Thunderbird 800 system Abit KT7-RAID MB with V5, SB Live Value, 384 MB, etc. A couple months back, my system started becoming really unstable. My system would randomly reboot, dump me back to the desktop during intense cpu activity (i.e., gaming, encoding), and display very odd error messages. Even copying files or pulling Ghost images produced weird CRC type errors.
Immediately, I thought the following could be problems:
- video card
- memory
- virus
- motherboard
As far as viruses, my system seemed clean. I only had Norton AV v5.0 with the latest definitions though.
I replaced the memory. Same instability.
I then noticed that the little fan over the MB chip was not spinning anymore. In fact, it was very difficult to spin with my fingers and was practically locked. I replaced it with a new fan. However, I didn't know at which point the fan stopped working so maybe the chip overheated and was damaged.
So lastly, I replaced the Voodoo5. And alas, still the same instability problems. Heck! I can't even install WinXP or WinME because errors would occur during file copying from the CD in DOS (autoboot from CD with extremely minor scratching) and display a STOP 0x0000004E PFN_LIST_CORRUPT" Error Message.
So my thinking now is either a virus that damaged my hard drive (neither ScanDisk or NAV can detect a problem) or my MB was damaged by the dead fan.
Any clues anyone? This is a smart board so I thought someone could give me some insights. Otherwise, I plan on replacing the cpu and MB.
So anyway, sorry, V5, for prematurely thinking you were the culprit. You may still find a home in a backup system. If only you had TV out, you could've replaced my V3 in my PIII 650 system...
I had a fully stable AMD Thunderbird 800 system Abit KT7-RAID MB with V5, SB Live Value, 384 MB, etc. A couple months back, my system started becoming really unstable. My system would randomly reboot, dump me back to the desktop during intense cpu activity (i.e., gaming, encoding), and display very odd error messages. Even copying files or pulling Ghost images produced weird CRC type errors.
Immediately, I thought the following could be problems:
- video card
- memory
- virus
- motherboard
As far as viruses, my system seemed clean. I only had Norton AV v5.0 with the latest definitions though.
I replaced the memory. Same instability.
I then noticed that the little fan over the MB chip was not spinning anymore. In fact, it was very difficult to spin with my fingers and was practically locked. I replaced it with a new fan. However, I didn't know at which point the fan stopped working so maybe the chip overheated and was damaged.
So lastly, I replaced the Voodoo5. And alas, still the same instability problems. Heck! I can't even install WinXP or WinME because errors would occur during file copying from the CD in DOS (autoboot from CD with extremely minor scratching) and display a STOP 0x0000004E PFN_LIST_CORRUPT" Error Message.
So my thinking now is either a virus that damaged my hard drive (neither ScanDisk or NAV can detect a problem) or my MB was damaged by the dead fan.
Any clues anyone? This is a smart board so I thought someone could give me some insights. Otherwise, I plan on replacing the cpu and MB.
So anyway, sorry, V5, for prematurely thinking you were the culprit. You may still find a home in a backup system. If only you had TV out, you could've replaced my V3 in my PIII 650 system...