I'm currently running my Pentium 3 733 at 683 because everytime Windows XP boots up I get the infamous:
"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM"
Now if I drop the cpu down from 5.5x @ 133 to 5.5x @124 it runs perfect. In fact I've been running it at 124 for a year cause I didn't think 50Mhz makes a huge difference. Well I have decided its enough for me to look into fixing it.
Motherboard: Abit VA6.
RAM: 320 MB PC133
Graphics: GeForce 2 GTS 32MB
Network: Linkysys 10/100
Sound Card: Old SB64 just broke, SB Live on the way
Hard Drive: Maxtor 20GB 5400rpm
Alittle history on this problem. I had Windows 98 on this box for a year or two and decided I wanted to put Win 2K on about a year and a half ago. Well, everytime during install it would freak out and die. So I stuck with 98 for another 6 months and got XP. Tried installing, exact same problem as 2K. I put some time into it and found that if I drop the bus from 133 to 124 it would install and run perfect. So its not a recent thing and my hardware seems good cause I had 98 on here for a long time. Just a conflict with 2K and XP. I've also tried swapping hardware out incase there is some conflict and nothing has work. I've tried swapping out sound card, video card, ram, and network card. Nothing. I also have the latest BIOS from Abit and have every update downloaded for XP. Anyone have any ideas on this very strange problem?
Thanks,
Kevin
"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM"
Now if I drop the cpu down from 5.5x @ 133 to 5.5x @124 it runs perfect. In fact I've been running it at 124 for a year cause I didn't think 50Mhz makes a huge difference. Well I have decided its enough for me to look into fixing it.
Motherboard: Abit VA6.
RAM: 320 MB PC133
Graphics: GeForce 2 GTS 32MB
Network: Linkysys 10/100
Sound Card: Old SB64 just broke, SB Live on the way
Hard Drive: Maxtor 20GB 5400rpm
Alittle history on this problem. I had Windows 98 on this box for a year or two and decided I wanted to put Win 2K on about a year and a half ago. Well, everytime during install it would freak out and die. So I stuck with 98 for another 6 months and got XP. Tried installing, exact same problem as 2K. I put some time into it and found that if I drop the bus from 133 to 124 it would install and run perfect. So its not a recent thing and my hardware seems good cause I had 98 on here for a long time. Just a conflict with 2K and XP. I've also tried swapping hardware out incase there is some conflict and nothing has work. I've tried swapping out sound card, video card, ram, and network card. Nothing. I also have the latest BIOS from Abit and have every update downloaded for XP. Anyone have any ideas on this very strange problem?
Thanks,
Kevin