Problems with new sparkle mobo

[mikee]

Hi all,

I bought the "deal of the week" Sparkle Nforce2 400 (Socket A) Motherboard from http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Other.html

and a new stick of GeIL 512MB PC3200 Value CAS2.5 RAM to replace my old Abit KT7 and sdram

I am running:

ThoroughBred 2400+ XP (with akasa HSF)
ATI radeon 9200SE
30 gig IDE maxtor drive
cdw/dvd LG combo drive
4x 80mm case fans
snd card + nic
300 watt generic PSU

Running my cpu at default 133x15 gives me BSOD (with error PAGED_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA) and other instability problems.

At the moment I am running at 100x15 with massive performance hit to get stable win2k operation

Does anyone have any information regarding this companies 1st mobo? ( www.sparkle.com.tw )

the product is not listed on their site let alone bios upgrades

I have no temperature readings, was gonna bump up my vcore but there is no bios/dipswitch ability for this either.

Any ideas whether this is faulty ram (its brand new) or maybe my psu is too low?

Appreciate any help that could be given

mike

[Kezzer]

Well it is a seriously cheap motherboard so i doubt that it has many overclocking abilities such as bumping up the vcore etc.

As opposed to the BSOD i'm not sure.

[skattrd]

That sounds like a memory error to me, especially if its stable @ 100mhz - try running memtest86 from a floppy to test it.

Apparently that board is actually made by chaintech, I've been told its this one and I have heard of people using the bios for that one to overclock it more - but it could be a tad risky, so don't blame me if it kills ur mobo

[mikee]

ta, i will check the mem when i get back tonight, do u have any extra reading regarding this chaintech issue?

(link doesnt work for me btw)

thnx

[skattrd]

Hmm weird link worked before, anyway - its the chaintech 7NJL3 try this

As for other reading, sorry but I can't really help there