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by blang Oct 28, 2002 last reply Jan 26, 2003

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I have a Duron 1.3ghz, and a ECS k7s5a Mainboard, with 128mb ram. Everytime I install a driver or other software it blue screens and reboots. I have updated the BIOs, and changed ram, also changed OS. ME is on there right now. Any clues cause I really need it on this one.

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by opatzg9 Oct 28, 2002

Is the Case/Power supply AMD approved? The AMD's run a little hot so expect an extra fan on the case side over the cpu as well as the cpu fan and the power supply fan. Power needs to be at least 300watts. Otherwise, bad motherboard??? It sounds strange taht it would reboot on a driver load if the board wasn't the problem.
Good luck

by blang Jan 26, 2003

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by thechas Oct 28, 2002

How much RAM do you have?

There is a Windows 9X/Me bug that can cause various strange problems if you have more than 511MB of RAM installed.
If you have a large amount of RAM, try dropping down to less than 511MB.

I limit my 9X boxes to 384MBto avoid this issue.

Next, make sure that the FSB and Multiplier are being set correctly by the BIOS.
I have had numerous systems where simply forcing the correct clock and multiplier has fixed strange problems.
If you have SDRAM, the FSB is 100MHz, the multiplier is 13*
If you have DDR RAM, the FSB is 200MHz, the multiplier is 6.5*

Finally, verify that the CPU core voltage is set correctly.
Too low, and the CPU doesn't run well;
Too high, and the CPU overheats.

Chas

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by cactus pete Oct 29, 2002

I had a similar situation, though I didn't always have to be loading software - sometimes it just grew tired and rebooted anyway... After replacing the CPU fan, then the PS, I reseated the CPU itself and the problem went away.