Author Topic: Tracking a lockup problem, opinions/ideas please (Read 658 times)

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #15 on:** July 28, 2002, 12:26:04 PM »

Cave,
I don't really have any idea what your problem is but a lot of people wrote bout similar RAM slot issues on the MSI and Nforce forums. It seems both MSSI and ASUS nforce boards are very picky bout how the RAM is inserted. Some reported success by reinserting with a LOT of pressure and some support under the slot. If you haven't tried it, you might set your RAM latency to 2.5 in the BIOS but I have my Crucial set to AUTO. I got lucky with both my Nforce boards and the RAM worked fine first try w 2 sticks in slots 1 & 2. I ran Memtest 86 3.0 last night on the MSI box for 8+ hours w no errors. Some on the forum also reported issues with PC Cillin on this board. Good Luck.
DJ229

CavemanJ · « **Reply #16 on:** July 28, 2002, 08:13:05 PM »

Aye Dave, I'm aware of the RAM issues with the board.

I'm thinking I'm gonna rule out the RAM as the cause. Went and picked up another stick of 256 PC2100 yesterday and slapped it in. Didna cure it. Played for a bit w/ no problems, went out for awhile, came back, played some more and boom. Set up Prime95 to run when I went to bed, it crapped out just shy of 2hours with a rounding error.

bloom25 · « **Reply #17 on:** July 28, 2002, 08:28:03 PM »

Cave, I think I'd RMA the MB after you get memtest 86 to run for a while and rule out memory.

Reschke · « **Reply #18 on:** July 28, 2002, 10:11:47 PM »

Sounds like the board is toast to me but I would try another power supply just to be safe. If you have to go direct to MSI on the RMA you should not have a problem. They have done several RMA's for me in the last 3-4 years on some boards I bought for customers with no trouble.

Last upgrade for me the system worked with no problems running an Athlon 700 on my ASUS K7V. I bought an ASUS A7V266 with a T-Bird 1.4GHz and 512MB PC2100 DDR and plugged in the old power supply which was a 350 watt Enlight and the new stuff would not boot at all. I plugged it into the old board and it worked fine. So I dropped in an Enlight 400 watt up at the local store for a test and it booted perfectly. So I bought a POWMAX LP-6100C 300 watt power supply and it worked great. Only reason I did not go with the Enlight 400 watt was I did not want to spend over $100 on a power supply.

wizzer · « **Reply #19 on:** July 31, 2002, 06:21:37 PM »

Cave,

Have you been getting any check sum errors during boot up?

wizzer

Turbot · « **Reply #20 on:** August 01, 2002, 02:05:28 PM »

Slightly off topic Caveman but I noted that the XP 2000 chip is down to $128 bucks w/ free shipping at newegg.com

Be sure you get an amd approved PS (a quick visual clue is the vents are on the bottom of the PS, not the front.

CavemanJ · « **Reply #21 on:** August 02, 2002, 11:01:25 AM »

Wizzer don't recall seeing any.

Turbot, thanks, I've been keeping an eye on chip prices for a bit since the wife is hollering she needs a faster machine. Gonna collect up the parts for yer box, then order me a new chip and give her the 1g duron

On the lockup, it hasn't happened in a few days I can't tell you why. As I posted earlier I put a stick of RAM in the box and it still had the lockups. Now, w/o even reseating the RAM it hasn't locked up in near 3 days. This is just weird =\