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I just bought a new Athlon 1.4, Asus M7M266, and 2 DDR-PC2100 256MB sticks (512MB total), all of which went into a new case with a 300W power supply. Additional components are a brand new AOpen GeForce2 MX, Soundblaster Live, D-link NIC, Logitech cordless mouse and keyboard, 2x IBM Deskstar drives (7200 RPM, 35 GB apiece), 1 6 GB Seagate drive, and one 40x Acer Labs CDROM drive.
All of the parts went together without apparent complaint. I started the system, and adjusted the frequency in the BIOS setup so the front-side bus speed was 133MHz, and the system correctly identified the processor at 1.4 and the memory as PC2100. All was well until I started Windows.
As soon as Windows started coming up, the machine spontaneously reboot. OK, it must not have liked one or more of the drivers from my old system (a P3-450). I reran the Windows setup (~20 minutes file transfer), the machine rebooted as scheduled, and as soon as Windows came back up, I saw a brief blue screen and it reboot again! I then tried a clean install...same thing, within moments after Windows initializes, the machine bluescreens then reboots.
After some futzing, I found if I left the bus speed at 100MHz, Windows would run. After more futzing, I found I could push this all the way to 130 MHz without a blue screen. But not only is the fact I can't run at the advertised speed annoying, but the system performance is horrible...worse than my old P3-450. I get frequent pauses and have had several out-right hangs. Calling up browser screens or even replying via ICQ takes forever.
Any ideas what might be going on here? CPU isn't overheated, the ASUS diagnostics report temp and fan speed to be happy happy. The drivers from the CD have been applied, there didn't seem to be any new drivers on the ASUS website for this board. I put in new drivers for the GeForce2, and the BIOS is current at 1.004a.
I'm out of ideas. Anyone else have any suggestions? Since I bought this by component, trying to get the place I bought the ram/cpu/mobo from to (1) diagnose the problem and (2) do something about it seems unlikely. Thank you.
All of the parts went together without apparent complaint. I started the system, and adjusted the frequency in the BIOS setup so the front-side bus speed was 133MHz, and the system correctly identified the processor at 1.4 and the memory as PC2100. All was well until I started Windows.
As soon as Windows started coming up, the machine spontaneously reboot. OK, it must not have liked one or more of the drivers from my old system (a P3-450). I reran the Windows setup (~20 minutes file transfer), the machine rebooted as scheduled, and as soon as Windows came back up, I saw a brief blue screen and it reboot again! I then tried a clean install...same thing, within moments after Windows initializes, the machine bluescreens then reboots.
After some futzing, I found if I left the bus speed at 100MHz, Windows would run. After more futzing, I found I could push this all the way to 130 MHz without a blue screen. But not only is the fact I can't run at the advertised speed annoying, but the system performance is horrible...worse than my old P3-450. I get frequent pauses and have had several out-right hangs. Calling up browser screens or even replying via ICQ takes forever.
Any ideas what might be going on here? CPU isn't overheated, the ASUS diagnostics report temp and fan speed to be happy happy. The drivers from the CD have been applied, there didn't seem to be any new drivers on the ASUS website for this board. I put in new drivers for the GeForce2, and the BIOS is current at 1.004a.
I'm out of ideas. Anyone else have any suggestions? Since I bought this by component, trying to get the place I bought the ram/cpu/mobo from to (1) diagnose the problem and (2) do something about it seems unlikely. Thank you.