amd 1800+ freezing up all the time

[rohan]

the mother board is k7sem bios date 2002/02/15 with 640 ram I'm not using the onboard vid albatron mx420d 64 ddr tv out last week I got new processer 1800+ it came with amd fan very big heat sink in pc heath the temps are good cpu at a high of 47 and sys. at 38 c. (sorry canadian temps not familer with f.)to get the processer to read at 1800+ I had to set the frec. at 133/133/100 any thing less and it only read at 1.15 in the bench mark it reads right where it should be at 1553 meg but now its all over the place freezing up (win98 sec) in win amp in mediaplayer and online very fustrating since it was working great with duron 1 gig the box that the 1800 came in says tailored for xp but I took that as advertising jinjle Help lost in time !

[Imperion1]

Need more system specs.

Have you flashed to mobo bios to the latest? Is your mobo compatible with the processor?

[x51out]

Same situation it seems:http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthre...hreadid=125829 . Read it and weep... just kidding Also, you must re-install windows... AMD says so.

[rohan]

i re loaded windows and it didnt help Im trying to flash but have not done it before and I'm running into road blocks I did every thing that elite group told me but the sys says invalid disk replace and hit any key to continue also when I check the contents of the floppy there are only two exe. files in the pics from awards how to info there are three exe. files and one bin. file I went back to the site a couple of times but cant see any more info to down load and with my cpu crashing every ten min the thing might get tossed out the window soon very fustrating

[x51out]

You created a bootable floppy, right? They need only be minimal so the flash files can fit on the tiny floppy too. If you get the error: invalid system disk... then the floppy is not bootable. Also, check your boot sequence and set to floppy first (for this flash process). Stay calm, dude. You'll get it eventually. Oh yeah, one more thing. Be VERY CAREFUL when flashing the bios. You think you have problems now? Wait until you get a bad flash...

[Plaster]

The K7S5A has issues when using both SDRAM slots. Issues similar to yours. You have 640MB of RAM meaning you have a 128mb and a 512mb. Try using only the 512MB stick. If the same occurs, try using just the 128.