I have built a new old system. it is a socket 754 system with parts mostly from around 2006, but most of the parts I just bought.
Motherboard: Gigabyte K8VM800 V2.0
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+
GPU: ATI Radeon X1950pro
RAM: Corsair DDR3200 2x1GB
I cannot quite figure this one out. The system was built for playing some older games I love, since Fallout 3 will not work under Windows 7 and some other games have a lot of trouble working with Windows 7. I have tried both Windows XP Pro 64-bit Edition and Windows XP Pro and both are having trouble. The 64-bit had constant freezes while installing some programs and forced me to restart. I had the system lightly overclocked, raising the FSB to 220 and the CPU clock rate up from 2.2 GHz to 2.4 Ghz. The first thing I tried was to restore Bios defaults and try but that also did not work. So I installed XP pro 32-bit and restored my overclock. It has a few of the same issues, so I lowered my RAM frequency to 166 since it had also been overclocked when I changed the FSB and that fixed some of the problems.
I have also tried changing out the PSU with a 575w unit, since I originally had a 300w unit which I thought was a little light. The system still freezes whenever running some installation wizards and when using anything 3D. I have a x800pro I am going to try and see if that works if maybe it is just the x1950pro. All of these parts are new/used and bought recently except for the motherboard and RAM which I had from an older build.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Motherboard: Gigabyte K8VM800 V2.0
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+
GPU: ATI Radeon X1950pro
RAM: Corsair DDR3200 2x1GB
I cannot quite figure this one out. The system was built for playing some older games I love, since Fallout 3 will not work under Windows 7 and some other games have a lot of trouble working with Windows 7. I have tried both Windows XP Pro 64-bit Edition and Windows XP Pro and both are having trouble. The 64-bit had constant freezes while installing some programs and forced me to restart. I had the system lightly overclocked, raising the FSB to 220 and the CPU clock rate up from 2.2 GHz to 2.4 Ghz. The first thing I tried was to restore Bios defaults and try but that also did not work. So I installed XP pro 32-bit and restored my overclock. It has a few of the same issues, so I lowered my RAM frequency to 166 since it had also been overclocked when I changed the FSB and that fixed some of the problems.
I have also tried changing out the PSU with a 575w unit, since I originally had a 300w unit which I thought was a little light. The system still freezes whenever running some installation wizards and when using anything 3D. I have a x800pro I am going to try and see if that works if maybe it is just the x1950pro. All of these parts are new/used and bought recently except for the motherboard and RAM which I had from an older build.
Any ideas would be appreciated.