XP Restarts after 10 or so minutes... a8v 90nm gf4
Hi,
This is my first post here so please no 'n00b' insults...
Ok, I have recently bought the following from overclockers.co.uk
ASUS A8V Deluxe REV.2 Motherboard
AMD64 3000 Winchester 90nm (retail kit).
512 GEIL dual channel kit
Akasa 460Watt power supply with the blue l.e.d. (yey!)
Antec SUPER LANBOY case.
I already had a 120gb maxtor (i know, i know)
Geforce 4 MX 440 (with 8x agp)
Creative 5.1 soundcard
D-LINK Wireless 11g PCI card.
and a DVD writer.
I spent most of my student loan on the new bits for this computer, hoping to upgrade the rest when I had the money. But of course, i'm having problems.
I have updated the bios succesfully to the 1008 version off the official ASUS website. (RAM IN SLOT 4 etc). But windows is really unstable and restarts after a while when doing *anything*. It seems to be ok if it's sitting at the login screen though.
I have done driver clean and installed the latest drivers from the nvidia site, run memtest overnight with no errors. Installed the latest drivers for the soundcard and the wireless adapter. Still no luck.
I'm running SP2 on windows xp pro. I even tried different graphics cards, fished out an old geforce 2, same restart problem. I have had the motherboard replaced by the company and still the restart problem remains. It must be hardware, or and IRQ conflict or something but I JUST DON'T GET IT!
I have disabled all onboard features such as sound, lan, firewire etc. Still the same problem.
I read someewhere that fast writes causes problems, so I disabled this, put the graphics card down to 4x AGP.
Does anyone have any ideas, i'm really getting pissed off. I seem to have tried everything! Should I just sell all the parts and start again? Get a new motherboard? Help!.....
Thanks :bowdown:
Re: XP Restarts after 10 or so minutes... a8v 90nm gf4
:)omg. this one had me stumped for a few months. resolved with a fan and heatsink combo on the via chipset. it came with thermal double sided sticky tape already. comp usa 10 dollars. before that i tried drivers, swapping and buying new ram, a psu, video card. damnit, its all about the heat.
AVT
asus a8v mobo
amd 64 athlon 3200
2x1gb adata memory
ati 256mb agp video card
Re: XP Restarts after 10 or so minutes... a8v 90nm gf4
This thread is over 3 years old - I hope the OP is not still struggling with the problem!
Re: XP Restarts after 10 or so minutes... a8v 90nm gf4
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Originally Posted by
iranu
This thread is over 3 years old - I hope the OP is not still struggling with the problem!
Indeed! And I woulkd also hope that the OP has now graduated - as he used his student loan to build the thing!
Re: XP Restarts after 10 or so minutes... a8v 90nm gf4
this had me checking my clock lol when i saw the date