Desperate Help needed. Advice Please

I have recently installed Windows XP Home and ever since have not been able to run windows more than just a few minutes without the system locking up. The only thing I can find through web searches for this is either a bad Power Supply or motherboard not being compatible. I am going to get both this week, but was wondering what would be the best mother board for the following components: AMD Athlon 1 ghz processor 648 mb SDRAM GeForce 3 Ti 500 Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Linksys Network Card 2 Western Digital Hard Drives CDRW Drive and a Floppy All help and advice much appreciated Peter

Remove all stuff from MB except ram, vid card and one boot HD. Add one more component at a time and see which one causes lockups. SixEastMain wrote:

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> I have recently installed Windows XP Home and ever since have not been able > to run windows more than just a few minutes without the system locking up. > The only thing I can find through web searches for this is either a bad > Power Supply or motherboard not being compatible. I am going to get both > this week, but was wondering what would be the best mother board for the > following components: > > AMD Athlon 1 ghz processor > 648 mb SDRAM > GeForce 3 Ti 500 > Sound Blaster Audigy 2 > Linksys Network Card > 2 Western Digital Hard Drives > CDRW Drive and a Floppy > > All help and advice much appreciated > > Peter > > > >

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> AMD Athlon 1 ghz processor > 648 mb SDRAM > GeForce 3 Ti 500 > Sound Blaster Audigy 2 > Linksys Network Card > 2 Western Digital Hard Drives > CDRW Drive and a Floppy > > All help and advice much appreciated > > Peter > > > > >

any of the newer Nforce2 motherboards seem to be a good choice. You can look at just about any of the major amd brands like Abit, Asus, MSI, and others and get roughly the same products, just price and some odd features are different. Also since it runs, but only for a short while, have you experiemented with heat issues? Try removing the side of the case and pointing a big desk fan right at the cpu. dave henrie

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> Remove all stuff from MB except ram, vid card and one boot HD. Add one > more component at a time and see which one causes lockups. > > SixEastMain wrote: >> I have recently installed Windows XP Home and ever since have not >> been able to run windows more than just a few minutes without the >> system locking up. The only thing I can find through web searches for >> this is either a bad Power Supply or motherboard not being >> compatible. I am going to get both this week, but was wondering what >> would be the best mother board for the following components: >> >> AMD Athlon 1 ghz processor >> 648 mb SDRAM >> GeForce 3 Ti 500 >> Sound Blaster Audigy 2 >> Linksys Network Card >> 2 Western Digital Hard Drives >> CDRW Drive and a Floppy >> >> All help and advice much appreciated >> >> Peter >> >> >> >> >

Had the exact same problem it sounds like you're having. Spent some good cash buying new this's and that's, finally gave the comp away and bought a new one. The friend I gave the comp to spent less than $20.00 for a new fan and he now has virually a new comp. Just a thought.

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> I have recently installed Windows XP Home and ever since have not been able > to run windows more than just a few minutes without the system locking up. > The only thing I can find through web searches for this is either a bad > Power Supply or motherboard not being compatible. I am going to get both > this week, but was wondering what would be the best mother board for the > following components: > > AMD Athlon 1 ghz processor > 648 mb SDRAM > GeForce 3 Ti 500 > Sound Blaster Audigy 2 > Linksys Network Card > 2 Western Digital Hard Drives > CDRW Drive and a Floppy > > All help and advice much appreciated > > Peter >

1) You didn't mention what brand of motherboard you're using, nor whether or not any of the hardware is new to the system. 2) Was the system working before you installed XP, or is this a completely new system? 3) If it was a previously working before you installed XP, did you "upgrade" from a previous (old) version of Windows, or was it a virgin format/install? If you're dealing with new hardware: A) Make double-damn sure the heatsink is installed *correctly* on the CPU. Heat buildup will cause problems. B) AMD CPU's require 300W (or better) name-brand PSU's. Get an Enermax if you're convinced it's the power supply. C) Make sure that there aren't ANY cards in the PCI slot immediately adjacent to the video card. XP uses ACPI, and that can aggravate IRQ sharing issues. D) Remove everything except the drives, the, video card, and ONE stick of RAM. Reformat your hard drive, and re-install XP. Then, add the memory back one stick at a time. If the system still appears to work, re-insert the sound card, and then then ethernet card. If you're NOT dealing with all new hardware, it might simply be that XP doesn't like something in your system (and probably only when it's installed in your system). If you followed the step "D" stuff and it still doesn't work, you should be able to easily identify the offending hardware.

I had a similar problem a year or so ago and it turned out to be a dodgy stick of RAM. Try a single stick and do some testing. Let us know if you manage to resolve it. Best of luck! Stewart "SixEastMain" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:pS%Ga.22419$[email hidden]... > I have recently installed Windows XP Home and ever since have not beenable

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> to run windows more than just a few minutes without the system locking up. > The only thing I can find through web searches for this is either a bad > Power Supply or motherboard not being compatible. I am going to get both > this week, but was wondering what would be the best mother board for the > following components: > > AMD Athlon 1 ghz processor > 648 mb SDRAM > GeForce 3 Ti 500 > Sound Blaster Audigy 2 > Linksys Network Card > 2 Western Digital Hard Drives > CDRW Drive and a Floppy > > All help and advice much appreciated > > Peter > > > >

"SixEastMain" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:pS%Ga.22419$[email hidden]... > I have recently installed Windows XP Home and ever since have not beenable

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> to run windows more than just a few minutes without the system locking up. > The only thing I can find through web searches for this is either a bad > Power Supply or motherboard not being compatible. I am going to get both > this week, but was wondering what would be the best mother board for the > following components: > > AMD Athlon 1 ghz processor > 648 mb SDRAM > GeForce 3 Ti 500 > Sound Blaster Audigy 2 > Linksys Network Card > 2 Western Digital Hard Drives > CDRW Drive and a Floppy > > All help and advice much appreciated > > Peter > >

Before shelling out cash, look at cooling. I would suspect that the load on your processor has increased with XP and early AMD chips were notorius for overheating. Upgrade your processor fan and make sure you have good contact with heat conducting resin goop. make sure there is good ventilation around your PC also.

Well. From my experience. There's your 1wst problem. AMD is/was the biggest piece of shit processor i ever had the misfortune to own. Every game i ran would crash after a few min. Stuck a intel in and been going great since. On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 15:00:37 GMT, "SixEastMain" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>I have recently installed Windows XP Home and ever since have not been able >to run windows more than just a few minutes without the system locking up. >The only thing I can find through web searches for this is either a bad >Power Supply or motherboard not being compatible. I am going to get both >this week, but was wondering what would be the best mother board for the >following components: > >AMD Athlon 1 ghz processor >648 mb SDRAM >GeForce 3 Ti 500 >Sound Blaster Audigy 2 >Linksys Network Card >2 Western Digital Hard Drives >CDRW Drive and a Floppy > >All help and advice much appreciated > >Peter > > >

"Ed >:-)" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Well. From my experience. There's your 1wst problem. AMD is/was the > biggest piece of shit processor i ever had the misfortune to own. > Every game i ran would crash after a few min. Stuck a intel in and > been going great since. Amen Ed. Been there, done that. AMD may be fine now but... -- Pelican "To his good friend thus wide I'll ope my arms And, like the kind, life-rendering pelican, Repast them with my blood."

First off, replace the CPU if you can. That is the worst AMD processor ever made. It doesn't like many types of memory, and just has many other problems. I've got an 2200+ right now and haven't had a problem with it, though you probalby don't want/need something that fast. -Stuart Becktell "Ed >:-)" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Well. From my experience. There's your 1wst problem. AMD is/was the > biggest piece of shit processor i ever had the misfortune to own. > Every game i ran would crash after a few min. Stuck a intel in and > been going great since. > > On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 15:00:37 GMT, "SixEastMain" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >I have recently installed Windows XP Home and ever since have not been

able > >to run windows more than just a few minutes without the system lockingup.

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> >The only thing I can find through web searches for this is either a bad > >Power Supply or motherboard not being compatible. I am going to get both > >this week, but was wondering what would be the best mother board for the > >following components: > > > >AMD Athlon 1 ghz processor > >648 mb SDRAM > >GeForce 3 Ti 500 > >Sound Blaster Audigy 2 > >Linksys Network Card > >2 Western Digital Hard Drives > >CDRW Drive and a Floppy > > > >All help and advice much appreciated > > > >Peter > > > > > > >

"Pelican" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:6LHKa.21793$[email hidden]:

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> "Ed >:-)" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... >> Well. From my experience. There's your 1wst problem. AMD is/was the >> biggest piece of shit processor i ever had the misfortune to own. >> Every game i ran would crash after a few min. Stuck a intel in and >> been going great since. > > Amen Ed. Been there, done that. > > AMD may be fine now but... >

Here is an easy test to discover if you have an improperly cooled chip. Take off the side cover, start your system. Point a large desk or box fan at the exposed cpu. If you can continue computing past the normal lockup time, then you have either NOT got a good enough heat sink or it is installed poorly. dave henrie

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 23:56:31 GMT, Dave Henrie <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>"Pelican" <[email hidden]> wrote in >news:6LHKa.21793$[email hidden]: > >> "Ed >:-)" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >> news:[email hidden]... >>> Well. From my experience. There's your 1wst problem. AMD is/was the >>> biggest piece of shit processor i ever had the misfortune to own. >>> Every game i ran would crash after a few min. Stuck a intel in and >>> been going great since. >> >> Amen Ed. Been there, done that. >> >> AMD may be fine now but... >> > > Here is an easy test to discover if you have an improperly cooled chip. >Take off the side cover, start your system. Point a large desk or box fan >at the exposed cpu. If you can continue computing past the normal lockup >time, then you have either NOT got a good enough heat sink or it is >installed poorly. >dave henrie

Heh. That is how mine run every day. 6 inch turbo fan sitting by the open side panel. Keeps the room a nice warm temp all year.