New motherboard causing XP crash? 1

[ifx]

Hi,

A few weeks ago XP started to have a few problems booting - it would get to the loading screen and stop. Restarting a few times would get it to go a bit further each time then finially into Windows. Once in, everything was stable and running like normal.

This got worse and worse and seemed like if you left the machine running (after it has crashed on the first boot) for a half hour or so it would 'warm-up' and only need to be restarted a couple of times. Anyway, I bought a new Motherboard because I couldn't find anything wrong with the HD (my first thought). I've moved from an Abit KX7 to an Abit NF7 V2.0 with onboard sound and LAN. Now when I boot XP seems to get a little way then what looks like an infamous 'Blue Screen of Death' flashes us for a split second then the whole this restarts.

I've taken out all peripherals except graphics but no joy. Safe mode causes a restart when it's loading also.

Any ideas what it could be? Or maybe a fresh install of XP is the only solution?

All comments greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Spec (if it's helpful):
Athlon XP 2000
256MB DDR333 RAM
Abit Siluro GF4 Ti4200
Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm ATA133 HD
DLink 10/100 ethernet card (removed)
PCI 512 soundcard (removed)

 

[thommy2000]

This could be a problem with your memory.

 

[bcastner]

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xpfrm.html

Try method #4, #6, #8 and if necessary, #7

http://www.windowsreinstall.com/install/other/motherboard/win2k.htm

 

[paparazi]

You need a clean install of XP
Too many things have changed and your hard drive is configured for you old setup, simple as as.
You had a Via chipset motherboard, now you have an Nforce2, the driver configuration is completely differant, wipe and start a fresh.
martin

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[SYAR2003]

Hi!
Also note that NF7-S sometimes undevolts the CPU .
Default settings like auto in softmenu (CPU=1,65V) may result in 1,625V .
Try manual settings the vols to compencate .

Try:
VCORE = 1,7
Memory = 2,8
Chipset= 1,7
AGP = 1,5


Also take note at papp's statement .
If your windows configuration is based on VIA chipset
and changing to nForce2 chipset board without taking the
correct upgrade road you are in trouble with drivers ,
hardware enumeration in the win-xp.

syar

 

[ifx]

Thanks for your advice guys! I'm writing this message from a freshly formatted disk and new install of XP - ahhh, nothing like a clean desktop!

One thing I have noticed, which may be linked with what syar2003 said is that when I go to Control Panel > System it shows my CPU as being 1.24Ghz. It's an Athlon XP 2000 which I though was around 1675 Mhz. Not sure what's going on there... some BIOS tweaking needed perhaps!?

Thanks again!

 

[paparazi]

Yes,
your front side bus is set to 100 and needs upping to 133, this will take your clock speed up to the proper 1677mhz
Alot of Nforce2 boards either have dip switches or jumpers on the motherboard to set to above default 100.
Sometimes the adjustment can be made purely in the bios.
You should have both memory and CPU FSB set to 133
Martin

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