Freezing

[Seveniron]

I'm having a very BIG problem with my system freezing up. Abit KA7 100-133 w/Athlon 700 processor. Makes no difference what your doing WAM O it freezes, you reboot and try again. Happens as many as twenty time daily. Ready to dispose of it and start over. Thanks for your input. Sam

[Dave_H]

Hi Sam,
Maybe a little more info on your system, and if this is a new system, or one that has been working fine for a while and just started having this problem.
The first thing I would start with would be the Vidio Card driver, either check for an updated driver, or use a standard one off the Windows CD for a while.
It's a shame that it is locking up so many times a day, but actually that could help the troubleshooting since you will know real soon when the problem stops.
Dave

[CMonster]

Be sure the proper drivers are installed for the motherboard chipset - try installing them again just to be sure.

Are you using a 100mhz memory bus speed or trying to go higher/overclock? The first thing that comes to mind is that the Athlon doesn't seem to work well with non-standard bus speed.

I may be possible that your RAM is not compatible. Make sure that your memory is Athlon approved by AMD. I had a problem early on with my Athlon and RAM.

Make sure you have the latest BIOS version.

A 300w power supply is highly recommended.

If your Athlon 700 came OEM with a heat sink and fan you may want to remove the heat pad between the heat sink and CPU and use thermal paste instead.

[Dave_H]

Sam,
If you post the additional information here you can get input from everyone at this forum.
Although I know a few things, I personally am far from being an "expert". Some of the members at this forum are EXTREAMLY knowlegeable.

Note to others- Sam e-mailed me describing some of the problems he has, one of them was about his vidio display blurring the words on the screen.

Sam- Here is where you can get current drivers for your card. Even if it doesn't help with the freeze ups, it should take care of your display.
p.s. (listen to CMonster, He IS an expert)
http://www.matrox.com/mgaweb/drivers...ivers/home.htm
Dave


[This message has been edited by Dave_H (edited 06-07-2000).]

[ctaylor]

I couldn't resist this one:

Tell me, is it "freezing", "stalling" or "hanging"

Microsoft has s different recommended fix for each of these problems..

...of course they will tell you that these are not actual "problems" but value-added features.