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[strongbow1964]

When I start up my system the bios reports that I have a 'AUANDUM FIBEBALL@ AS$0.0' instead of a QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS40.0. It then reboots constantly instead of loading windows. I have the latest bios 1009 for my A7V MB. It also dumps me out of windows with the error code ERROR:OD:017F:CFF9B65C. As you can see...sometimes it does work. Any assistance appreciated.

My system is an Athlon900 (unclocked) running on an ASUS A7V MB with 1024MB Ram. Hard drives are Quantum Fireball AS (40G) and a new IBM (40G). Pioneer DVD, Ricoh MP7060A Burner, Floppy Drive, VooDoo3 2000 PCI graphics card, Creative SoundBlaster Value , Lucient WinModem. I also run several case fans (4X80mm,1X90mm,1XTT900 JustCooler) running from a 300W power supply in a Macase K10.
Can this be an incompatability problem with the new IBM (seems to only have started since installing it), or have I just stuffed the drive install somehow? It is displayed correctly in windows and works just fine. Or possibly a lack of a decent power supply to the components? There does seem to be a lot of things drawing on the power supply.

[Comage]

Ok, I guess that your OS has already been installed, and this isn't the first time the hardware was set up?

Try unplugging the IDE cables and reconnecting them up from the motherboard to the HDD. I get this kind of problem sometimes; re-attaching the IDE cables usually solves the problem.

You might have to do it for a couple of times before you might get it right. :)

[AzKidd69]

You stated the 900 is unlocked... Are you overclocking that 900 too?? If you are try lowering the FSB a bit and see if that fixes the prob... Some HDD's don't like it when bus speeds go too far out of spec..

[Gyro]

Strongbow,

Is your bios set to Auto, or manual. If it continues to do this, you might want to input the correct values into your Bios and see if it works. I had that problem, where my Award bios would recognize to HDD different everytime until I input the values.

R/
Gyro

[strongbow1964]

Firstly to AzKidd69, the CPU is not unlocked or overclocked. To Comage, yes I will try doing that and also I will try using different cables. You never know the one I am currently using may be faulty. And finally to Gyro, thanks for this suggestion I will try it before I decide to re-flash the BIOS with my old backed up original.
Thanks again to all. The more things to try the merrier. It looks like another lost computer fixing weekend!