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I have a rev 1.01 a7v mainboard, with a 800 t-bird. last month i bought a new rev 1.02 a7v and a 1100 t-bird. I wanted to use the new a7v for my gaming machine, and the 800 for a q3 server. when I assembled the new 1100 it would get to the "win98" splash screen, but would only show the bottem 1/3 of the screen and then lock up. I swapped out ram, harddrive, vid card, sound and nic card. still locked up at same point. the cpu was at 45 degrees celcius, so I dont think heat was a problem. I even disconnected the harddrve and booted off a floppy, it would get bout 1/2 thru booting before locking up. I also tried the latest firmware, same result. if i put the 800 tbird in the new board, it worked great. I also tried putting the 1100 in the rev 1.01 board and it didnt even boot. so I figured it was a bad cpu, and sent it back. it was confirmed by the company i bought it from it was defective and they sent me a new one. I tried putting the new one in today and it does the exact same thing the old one did. also putting the 1100 into my rev 1.01 board, resulted in it booting, but locking up before loading windows. The only thing i can think of that could be causing this is my power supply, its only a 235 watt. is this the kind of problems that come up when the power supply is too weak? I thought that 235 would be plenty to drive a 1100 with no hardrive and 32meg of ram but even that would lock up on a dos boot disk. either that or I have the worst luck at getting AMD cpu's, lol
anyone have any ideas?
thanks
Mike_jetter@hotmail.com
anyone have any ideas?
thanks
Mike_jetter@hotmail.com