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I’m having some trouble with my system and I’m not sure what’s causing it.
I recently installed an ASUS A7M266 and an Enermax 435-watt power supply.
When I start it for the first time during the day, or sometimes after it’s been shut down for a few hours, it seems to have trouble starting and running Win2k (or anything). The first couple of times I start the system ( with the BIOS set to Quick boot mode) I will get messages from Win2k that files are corrupt and Win2k will stop loading. Each time I reset the boot process will get a little farther. Eventually after I’ve tried a few times Windows will start without errors (the files aren’t really corrupt, the system just seems to have trouble reading the before it’s warmed up, I think). If set the BIOS to non- quick boot mode the first boot up seems to be okay (at least it was this morning – this is the first time I thought to try it). If I set the BIOS “System” setting to turbo mode, opposed to normal, the problems are noticeably worse and Windows (or apps running under Windows) will even reset the PC occasionally.
After the PC has been running for 10 to 15 minutes both quick boot and turbo mode work.
Is this behavior normal for this board? Should I send the motherboard back? Is there a BIOS update that might help? I have 1004a from the ASUS website. Could it be the power supply? Should the Turbo mode work? What does it do?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-Clovis911
Asus A7M266
Athalon 1.4Gig
Enermax 465 ? (it’s the 435-watt model)
256 Meg Micron DDR non-ECC memory
VisionTek Geforce3 video card
Intel 2200 DSL internal modem
D-Link DFE 530TX+ NIC
Windows 2000