Recent content by mikedonthemike

Well y'all, I have troubleshot everything on my machine and visited a lot of other forums on the next looking for help. After several months of troubleshooting, rebuilding my machine(hardware and software(APCI or not)), testing using different brands of RAM, I was finally able consistently...

77ventura's solution looks a lot like the link to amdmb.com's forum I posted. Definitely something I recommend you read especially if you have an AMD chip and VIA chipset and a GeForce card! http://www.amdmb.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30626&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

For dbatlmu: like an earlier post said for turning off APCI and changing to Standard PC: http://www.corespeed3d.com/articles/acpioff.php Or if you reinstall Windows 2000, press F5 instead of F6 to specify a configuration other than APCI when you boot from the Windows 2000 CD IDE problems. Do...

For Diana9999: It's a new DELL, which means that they better support it! If not, I would start with a clean install of Windows 2000. Isn't there some rebuild/restore CD that you can insert and it will format and reinstall the original version of Windows 2000 for your specific Dell Model?

Okay, still in the middle of re-installing Windows 2000 according to this guy's forum. His approach seems to have helped a lot of people who have the A7v133 boards. One of the biggest things to know what the PCI config and to put my SB PCI128 in PCI slot 3 AND have that slot reserve IRQ5 for...

Like you guys, massive problem(s)? Athlon 1.2 512MB PC133 Kingston Value Ram Asus A7v133a rev 1.005 Asus v7700 GeForce 2 GTS w/ 32MB DDR 30GB Maxtor HD ATA100 7200rpm SB PCI128 Windows 2000 PRO using latest Via 4-in-1 v.4.35 drivers Nvidia Detonator 21.83 (not Asus' cuz their's suck) Bios is...