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by judeb

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I have a 750 Duron on a Gigabyte GA-7ZX-1 motherbd and 256 mb of 133SDram. Ever since I changed my chip and mb to the above I have had bad problems with instability sometimes to the extent that I need to physically turn off the computer to get any reponse. SiSoft Sandra freezes computer and it needs to be physically turned off when checking mainbd. Fix-It Utilities shows minor probs. with graphic card (3DForce F32)and only able to read 84 - 87% memory. However changing and rotating memory sticks does not reduce instability. Am constantly rebuilding and no longer able to run dual boot sys with Win2k. Any suggestions? Am thinking of changing motherboard. Does that sound hopeful? Are FSB 266Mhz mbs backward compatible to CPU's running with 133 FSB?
Many thanks. Jude

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by cg it

How many computers do you have??? For the sake of technical debate, you have a Graphics card problem[could be driver related, could be bad card, could be chipset drivers or the AGP slot [provided the card is AGP] are not loaded. Could be the card isn't seated right, could be the connectors on the card are dirty, [try using an eraser on a pencil to clean of scale buildup. Since you have many computers, take the graphics card out, drop it into another computer and see what happens.

The Gigabyte GA-7ZX Mainboard is for 200mhz FSB[100mhzX2] processors which the Duron is. If you purchased a new board that is a 266 Mhz FSB [133 mhzX2], the processor will still only run at 200 Mhz.

Since reading all you questions on this forum, soundslike every computer you have has problems. Ever thought of changing careers to something other than computers?

by rcom

I seriously doubt if there's anything wrong with the new hardware. It would help to know what OS you have. There's more than likely just some resource conflict(s). The new board probably has different settings for the IRQs and I/O addressing, this is probably causing your problems. Go through the seetings in device manager to make sure deivces aren't piled up on the same IRQ. Uninstall and remove all the cards except the video. Then add them in one at a time to see if you can isolate which device is causing the issues.

by ron

If you're video card is only reading 87% of the video memory, that definately sounds like a bad card. Video is the cause of about 30% of the system instability problems we have at our shop.
Followed by RAM, Power Supply and Mainboard (in that order).

Something to be aware of.
Windows ME = CRAP, SERIOUS CRAP, READ AS SH*T.

Microshaft discontinued it for a reason. It's evil buggy. The brilliant part is they left the resellers to deal with all the problems and irate customers. OEM copies or not. Thanks Billy!!!

Small rant, but SERIOUSLY, try another O/S.

Ron Velotta
Service Manager
www.computerheaven.com

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