K7T266 Pro w/ Athlon XP 2000+

Specs:
K7T266 Pro
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
512 MB DDR (2100)
80GB + 40GB (IDE)
GeForce 4 MX440
At first i used a Duron 1200 and run fine, but not fast enough. I bought myself an Athlon XP 2000+ that came from an other fine running machine. I've updated my bios so it would support that processor. I've installed the 2000+. I set my fsb to 133. The motheboard boots. While WinXP starts i get an Bluescreen, not a defined error, just an 'error' (micersooooft...). Even when i try to install WinXP, i get errors (bluescreens) When i manually set the fsb to 133 and my multiplyer to 12.5 (to get the 1667 for 2000+) the motherboard doesn't even boot.
this is a generated html page of my system.
http://users.skynet.be/fa006592/index.html
Plz suggestions ? i just want the 1667 run like it should be.

Too much APIC, but many suggests this idea:
"Although I'm not entirely clear on the a c o m p l e t e l y fresh installation of Windows XP is required (with APIC mode disabled)."
Here is something to read, if you like. http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/13533/
But again, I want to know more about the error message.
Are your temps high?
This is an idea of a BSOD for APIC:
reading boot............
probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 39M a20=on]
disk fd0 hd0*
>> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 1.26
boot>
booting fd0a:/bsd: 1220608+1916928 (......)
{Following is white on blue}
Copyright (c) 1995-2000 OpenBSD. ALl rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org
OpenBSD 2.8 (RAMDISK) #182: Mon Nov 6 11:13:39 MST 2000
deraadtopenbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RAMDISK
cpu0: F00F bug workaround installed
cpu0: Intel Pentium(P54C) ("GunuineIntel" 586-class) 133 MHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8
real mem = 41529344(40556K)
pcibios0 at bios0: rev. 2.1 found at 0xf0000[0x1000]
pcibios0: PCI BIOS has 4 interrupt routing table entries
pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus
WARNING: can't reserve area for I/O APIC
WARNING: can't reserve area for Local APIC
pci0 at mainbus0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82437FX(Triton)" rev 0x02
"Intel 82371FB (Triton) PCI-ISA" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 not
confugured
"Cirrus Logic CL-GD5430" rev 0x47 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 not configured
isa0 at mainbus0
isadma0 at isa0

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Originally posted by backwoodz
You should post this in the VIA forums........If was me I would first swap the nic card to a differnt slot and try to stop the sharing of videos irq.....secondly try relaxing your memory timings to the most laxed setting
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Manual AGP comp. driving: CB
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(Originally posted to wrong group)
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Quote
Originally posted by backwoodz
You should post this in the VIA forums........If was me I would first swap the nic card to a differnt slot and try to stop the sharing of videos irq.....secondly try relaxing your memory timings to the most laxed setting
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http://www.martin555.dyndns.org/stop.jpg
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Hi!
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I thought it may of been the power supply at first so went from a 200W to a 300W but still does the same thing every now and again.
My CPU temp is running around 49oC idle and SysTemp around 39oC under load its around 55-58oC using PCAlert4.(are these to high) it isnt OC'd
Also when it turns itself off i leave it for a few minutes and try and turn it back on and it just wont respond as if there is no power going to it at all.
Here is my computer in a nutshell:
K7T266 Pro
Athlon 1.2 gig
Nvidia Geforce2 MX 400
256 Ram
Windows XP Pro
Any help would be appreciated
Chris

they are volts amps are on the psu side in a table Power Supply Guide

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