Random PC crashes

[hamish]

I have baught a athlon XP 1800 in a abit KG7 M/b with 2 256MB sticks of PC2100, I built the PC and it will run for 10-15 mins then lock up I am running windows 98 R1 and windows XP if i change the FSB of the chip from 133 to 100 Mhzit will run stable I have tryed adding extra fans to improve cooling but this has failed.

Could somebody shed some light on this problem????

System

Athlon XP 1800
Ablt KG7
512MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM (2 sticks)
Geforce 2Ti graphics
Creative SB live
internal 56.6 modem
15GB Fujitsu
40GB Segate
Yamaha SCSI CDRW
LiteOn IDE CDRW
Phillips CD-Rom
Adptec PCI SCSI Card

[AllGamer]

Originally posted by hamish
I have baught a athlon XP 1800 in a abit KG7 M/b with 2 256MB sticks of PC2100, I built the PC and it will run for 10-15 mins then lock up I am running windows 98 R1 and windows XP if i change the FSB of the chip from 133 to 100 Mhzit will run stable I have tryed adding extra fans to improve cooling but this has failed.

Could somebody shed some light on this problem????

System

Athlon XP 1800
Ablt KG7
512MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM (2 sticks)
Geforce 2Ti graphics
Creative SB live
internal 56.6 modem
15GB Fujitsu
40GB Segate
Yamaha SCSI CDRW
LiteOn IDE CDRW
Phillips CD-Rom
Adptec PCI SCSI Card

Simple Dissable ACPI inside your BIOS
set up IRQ + DMA manually.

Dissable Parallel + Com 1 + Com 2 if you have no use for them, only keep what you need.

Assign IRQ to your USB and Video

Video and Sound card, each must have its own IRQ, and cannot be shared.

the rest, play around with them until you find a good combo

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1 x Abit KR7A-133
1 x AMD Athlon XP 2000+
4 x 512Mb DDR = 2048 Mb, or 2 Gig
4 x Maxtor 160 Gig HDD (udma 133)
1 x Plextor 40/20/40 (udma 33)
1 x Creative 8x PC-DVD (udma)
1 x Sound Blaster Audigy (pci)
1 x Generic Rockwell v.90 PCI modem (pci)
1 x 3com EtherFast 10/100 (pci)
1 x ATI All-in-Wonder 8500 DV 64Mb (agp)
1 x ATI Remote Wonder (usb)
1 x Logitech Cordless Freedom Optical (PS/2)
1 x Logitech Z-560 (audio out)
1 x Optiquest Q90 (vga)
1 x Logitech QuickCam 510 (usb)
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[Strawbs]

remove one of the OS's to get it running stable first.
it could be a driver conflict but you won't know with a mishmash of drivers installed

[AllGamer]

Originally posted by Strawbs
remove one of the OS's to get it running stable first.
it could be a driver conflict but you won't know with a mishmash of drivers installed

Not an issue if he's using NTFS for the XP and FAT32 for the Win98

Win98 doesn't even know the NTFS is there, as far as the FAT32 is concerned about the NTFS does not exist.

I'll use Win98 as my main Troubleshooting point, that's what i did with my system

I run Win9x/Win2K/WinXp/Linux Mandrake 8.2/ and many others

if you can make Win9x stable, then everyother OS will be also.

[hamish]

I have run the PC with both os's on there own and this did not help, I have also tryed removing all non esental compnents (I.E agp graphics installed no pci slots populated) and this did no help either. I have tryed everything I can think of to try to get this CPU running stable at 1.5Ghz, but the only way I have found the system stable is running at 11.5*100Mhz but there is still crashes every now and then, at full speed windows crashes as soon as it starts regardless of which OS is loaded

[Strawbs]

leave the case open and blow a house fan in there to see if it's heat related

[AllGamer]

Originally posted by hamish
I have run the PC with both os's on there own and this did not help, I have also tryed removing all non esental compnents (I.E agp graphics installed no pci slots populated) and this did no help either. I have tryed everything I can think of to try to get this CPU running stable at 1.5Ghz, but the only way I have found the system stable is running at 11.5*100Mhz but there is still crashes every now and then, at full speed windows crashes as soon as it starts regardless of which OS is loaded

have you tried upgrading your BIOS?

ALSO DID YOU DISSABLE ACPI as i pointed out earlier?