Recent content by kevmuldoon1

make sure you have the latest bios revision for your motherboard. Im not sure about yours, but i have seen that older bios versions cant "read" the faster amd xp cpu's. Not a problem, just get the latest revision and flash the bios. all should be good.

After copying/cutting and pasting large files, my task manager shows 100% cpu usage. I notice that explorer uses 99% of it and will not go back down afterwards. The rest of the machine runs real slow, and i can do very little. To resolve this, i end the task (being explorer) and go to run and...

boot sector virus protection is disabled by default, or at least its off now. the only card i have in there is my vid card (gf4 ti4400). i know its a compatable card cause i have the same card in my system which has the identical mobo. also, the kb or mouse cant be the prob. i doubt the cdrom...

athlon xp 2000+ Gigabyte GA-7VRXP mobo. GF4 ti4400 video card after bios, i hit f8 to tell the comp to manually boot from cd (win xp cd). it runs windows setup and loads all the basic device drivers, but after all that is loaded the system crashes giving me a blue screen "system will be...

im building this system and basically the thing just crashes badly when im trying to install windows. i wiped out the hard drive to start over. after bios, i hit f8 to tell it to boot from the windows xp cd since there is no OS installed on the HD. so it searches for a boot record on the cd and...

I need to get a vid card with dual monitor support, due to the fact i now have 2 monitors, which card do you guys think i should get? I was thinking maybe the ti 4200, but i dunno. Its mainly between getting the Radeon 9000, ti 4200, and the ATI Radeon 9700 pro. The pro is the fastest, but it is...

Lately i've been running my ti4400 in agp 2x mode, because that works fine. its fast enough to play everything in a high resolution, but i really want to get it working in 4x mode. my mobo is a Gigabyte ga-7vrxp. i flashed the bios to f11. i have 4072 detonators. i have the latest directx as far...

sorry. i got a Giga-Byte GA-7VRXP mobo, and a Geforce4 ti4400 vid card. i havnt flashed the bios yet, but i didnt feel there to be a need to.

everytime i enable agp 4x in bios, games will freeze and crash. however, when i set it to 2x, they run fine. any ideas?

I did put my working cpu in the new motherboard, and it worked fine. My cpu is an athlon thunderbird 1.33GHz. The new cpu is an athlon xp 2000+. the motherboard is a Giga-Byte GA-7VRXP. The board does support athlon xp's. the latest bios revision is to support the athlon xp 2400+ and 2600+ so...

I was using arctic silver 2, which is premium stuff. it will cool better than the adhesive strip on the underside of the heatsink, thats a fact. this cpu was definitely cool enough to run. it is not overheated by any means. nothing else can be taking it out because i took out the cpu on my...

Yes, of course i made sure the heatsink was properly on, and some quality arctic silver 2 paste applied. I know what you mean by having the heatsink backwards, but it definitely wasnt. I just swapped out the cpu on my system with this cpu i received, and it wouldnt work. i put my cpu back in...

I ordered an athlon xp 2000+ from a company only to find that it was dead on arrival. so they sent me a replacement cpu. the same thing happened!! i found this very hard to believe, so i tried the cpu on another motherboard just to make sure there wasnt something wrong with my setup. However...

yes, the cpu fan connector is attached to the motherboard, and it does run. there is no system fan to attach to the motherboard, but all other fans run. Those connections are just for hardware monitoring, that should not matter.

Yes, i made SURE all fans were running. so im fresh out of ideas. could it be anything else???