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by cltcgdss

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I have a system using DFI's AK70 MB with Athalon 800 mhz processor, 256 PC133 Ram, Nvidia TNT Rivera 32mb AGP card, Soundblaster Live 5.1 sound card. I was running Windows ME when I started having corrupted file errors on a new 20 gig Maxtor drive.I wiped and fdisk, reformatted drive. Reinstalled ME, made sure I got updated drivers for video and sound cards, and reinstalled AOL 7.0, my DSL software and Diablo II. As soon as I play Diablo online, I started locking up, and had to shut off the machine. CTRL ALT DEL didn't get me out of the system. Reboot started bringing the "windows has found an error in registry, and will restart and fix". Well, it didn't fix it, just kept repeating the error message. I ran Norton Utilities and it came back with a misc one error rated high. Had it fix it. Then it tried to shut down and I get Fatal Exception: 0167:B00DC0D0. I've since tried installing ME and upgraded to XP, same crap starts happening. Wiped it, tried Me alone again, same thing. Wiped it, reformatted with a different Hard drive, loaded 98 SE, and same problems. Direct X is version 8.1, drivers are as current as I can find.

After one game play, I've had to either reinstall the video driver, Direct X, run diagonistics, run Norton Utilities, do a boot to a prompt and do the scanreg /fix ... and nothing gives me a permanent solution.

The errors are getting intensive and varied. Realplay errors pop up. Winzip error says it's in the wrong location and to reinstall. Fatal exception errors when I try to exit Windows, registry errors on boot up, the list goes on and on. I'm about at my wits end trying to troubleshoot this!

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

Your problem is likely to be with your new drive being out of spec. You didn't mention which one specifically, but I'll bet its ATA100 at least. Your motherboard will only support ATA66.

Here is an extract from a review of your board I found...

"Dual PIO mode 3/4 EIDE channels up to 4 IDE devices
UltraDMA/66 transfer rate up to 66MB/sec"

Here is the link to the article FYI...

http://active-hardware.com/english/reviews/mainboard/ak70-2.htm

(remove spaces from the above URL)

I've seen quite a few posts on TechRepublic where "new drives" cause mysterious registry problems and they're almost always caused by this incompatability.

I suggest you upgrade your motherboard.

Cheers,
Tim.

by cltcgdss

Sorry I didn't specify the drive, but it is a DMA 66. I also tried using another DMA 66 with same results. I also replaced (one at a time of course) the ram, video card, and sound cards with other known working units. Problems persisted regardless of the "new" parts.

by mdelyea

When I hear AMD and mysterious errors mentioned in the same problem I immediately think 'cooling'. AMD processors are famous for overheating. Check the CPU fan and if necessary add a case fan as well.

by cltcgdss

System is running with one of the best AMD 3 fans coolers I can find, has a case fan near the cpu, plus a 5 1/4 bay fan. I can touch the processor and it is not overly hot to the touch. I also thoroughly cleaned the system with a brush and air, including the power box. (300 Watt)

by drdmc

I have 5 boxes with DFI motherboards with AMD processors. Two of them gave me grief similar to your symptoms. Mine would go for days with no problems, then start giving weird error messages. Diagnostic (Mcaffee) software reported crosslinked files, damaged files, etc. I installed new motherboards (warranty replacements)- no more problems. Good luck.

by cltcgdss

Took awhile to come up with the cash for new MB - but it solved the problem ... used everything else and the drive took the OS like a champ ... and no errors since. Weird how the MB went like that, it had been operating just fine. Thanks for the suggestion!

by rev. ned

Well kid, I may not have an answere for you, but you're not alone. My pentium goes over the high side like that about once a year, in fact I just finished up, tonight, getting my sys back in good shape. I had to do a wall to wall cleaning in temp internet files, and emptied the cookie jar, as well as dumping old prog files, no longer valid, from the sys. Updated drivers, flashed a bit, even went in and dusted Ma board in the midst of disasemble. Checked everything, even the mos. It all came to that when I started getting that BSOD.

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