L4VXA2 not for WinXP?

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WinXP installed on a new 80Gb drive on new L4VXA2 v1.1c (Award BIOS 6.00g)
constantly freezes within a few minutes. Win98 (on the old drive) runs OK
on the new board after installing NDIS fix (running a 2.4Ghz cpu). Tried
BIOS update, but the update says No support for Win 2000/XP on screen before
actual installation.

Has anyone been successful running WinXP on the L4VXA2, and what did you do?

Many thanks.

Bob

 

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On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:57:32 GMT, "Robert Ginn" <bobginn@att.net>
wrote:

>Has anyone been successful running WinXP on the L4VXA2, and what did you do?

I have L4VXA2 with 2.4GHz P4 (OC'ed up to 2.8), 3x 512MB PC2700, and
several hard drives. I never had any problem the first time I
installed XP.

L4VXA2 should be fine for XP, there may be a problem that causes XP to
crash that 98 doesn't have. XP uses more memory and more resource and
they are more senstive to faulty hardware than 98 is. Such as:
misconfigured BIOS
faulty, or if you have more than 1 DIMM, mixed speed RAM
faulty mobo

There are simply too many possibilities. Start with the BIOS first
and use the safe setting. If that doesn't work, remove the extra RAM
and use one at a time until the bad module is found. Also have the
RAM and CPU tested in a known good mobo.
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Make sure you have the new correct memory settings, such as BUS speed and
clock. If you don't no OS will boot. I suspect that the old OS was fine
because the resources were sufficient.

If you are now trying to run XP without upgrading some hardware (memory
mainly) you are going to put the hurt on XP and experience problems;

Anything over 192mb on Win98 was a waste, but XP will take everything you
give it.

Hope this helps.
The Tech Support Guy

www.ComputerRelative.com





"Robert Ginn" <bobginn@att.net> wrote in message
news:0wUIc.246183$Gx4.241287@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> WinXP installed on a new 80Gb drive on new L4VXA2 v1.1c (Award BIOS 6.00g)
> constantly freezes within a few minutes. Win98 (on the old drive) runs OK
> on the new board after installing NDIS fix (running a 2.4Ghz cpu). Tried
> BIOS update, but the update says No support for Win 2000/XP on screen
before
> actual installation.
>
> Has anyone been successful running WinXP on the L4VXA2, and what did you
do?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Bob
>
>

 

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> Make sure you have the new correct memory settings, such as BUS speed and
> clock.

Thanks for the input. Incompatable bus speeds may be the problem. I'm
using one (new) stick of Kiingston 256Mb DDR PC2100, with a speed of 266MHz.
The L4VXA2 web site says it uses socket 478 processors with a FSB of
533/400MHz (my Celeron 2.4Ghz has a bus speed of 400MHz, so seemingly should
be OK).
All BIOS settings are at defaults (Auto or similar), but the BIOS says
the FSB is 100 MHz with a current DRAM freq of 133 MHz. Neither of these is
what is advertised for the items installed on the board.
Shouldn't the BIOS say the FSB is 400MHz and the DRAM freq is 256MHz?
I don't see any way to set the BIOS to make the freqs fit the processor and
memory. I could experiment, but would be venturing into an unknown area and
it would be trial and error (mostly error).
Many thanks for your help.
Bob