KT7 Turbo2 Problems

I have the following:
MSI KT7 Turbo2
Athlon XP 1600+ Palamino
ATI 8500 All in Wonder
Running Windows XP w/ sp1
I have upgraded all drivers to the latest versions i could find.
The problem i am having is i cant run multiple programs at once and have them both running without screwing up. For example while running winamp, if i try to open up IE the browser will open, but winamp will start running poorly and start crackling(best word i could think of).
Also when i installed an Athlon 1700+, it would come up as an unknown CPU type.
Has anyone had a problem like this and can help?
Tim

Hi,
Sounds like you would need to update your BIOS to the latest version to get 1700+ Support. I take it you have one of the older bios'?

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At this point I experienced a range of emotion as conveyed by these smilies 8o ?( X( :( :O ;(
To check if it weren’t any one of my components that was causing the problem, I took out all of the components (that were compatible) inserted them in my second PC, and I was able to install both OS’s using the other motherboard, WITHOUT any probs. When I moved the hard drive back with the OS’s on, there were always complications, with setting up the hard ware.
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MSI KT7 TURBO2 M.Board
Althon XP 1700
2 x 128MB 133 Ram (256mb total)
Abit Siluro GF2 MX 400 Graphics card
Realtek Network Card 10/100
56X CD ROM
Maxtor 540 20 GB Hard Drive
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Thats what I thought at first. What gets me is the fact that I can just push the reset button while it is beeping and it will boot to completion without fail. If the memory or video was bad you would think it would not work in any scenario. Once you are in XP, everything checks fine in device manager. The system works flawlessly.

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Ok, here goes and my apologies to wonk for direct e-mail, but am getting desperate. couldn't get on the forum last 2 days.
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MSI K7T Turbo2 version 5.0 (default bios)
256 meg PC 133 generic in bank 1
Enermax 350w, model EG-365 VE (rated 185w on 3.3&5 volts)
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discounted heatsink/cpu - used heatsink compound each time, cleaned each time.
discounted memory - ran for 6 day no problem, right?
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hi all, this is my problem -
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