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I SUSPECT I AM HAVING A PROBLEM WITH THIS M/B.FIRST OFF WHEN I WAS TRYING TO INSTALL WIN 2K I WAS TOLD THERE WHERE FILES MISSING, SO I TRIED MY BACKUP COPY OF WINDOWS AND GOT THE SAME ERRORS SO THE INSTALL DISKS ARE FINE.
WINDOWS EVENTUALLY INSTALLEDAFTER A FEW GOES.IN FACT IT WAS ALL WORKING PERFECT.
ON RUNNING FUZZY LOGIC 4 , IT SAID THAT MY SYSTEM WAS RUNNING AT 1600MHz WHICH IS SLOW AS I HAVE AN AMD 2600XP WHICH HAS AN FSB OF 333.
SO I WENT TO THE BIOS TO INCREASE TO CLOCK SPEED TO THE SUPPOETED VALUE WHICH IS 166MHz ON DOING THIS THE SYSTEM WOULD NOT START AT ALL.
SO I RESET THE BIOS WHICH WORKED THE SYSTEM BOOTED INTO WINDOWS BUT STILL WTI THE 1600MHz SPEED.I LEFT THE SETTINGS LIKE THIS PLAYED MY FAV GAME THAT NIGHT WORKED PERFECT.
UNTIL THE NEXT DAY WHN I TRYED ADJUSTING THE FSB AGAIN THIS TIME I TDID THE SAME THING SO I RESET THE BIOS ONCE MORE TO ENABLE THE SYSTEM TO START.
ON STARTING IS WAS GIVEN TO ERROR MESSAGES SAY ERROR SERVICE NOT STARTED.
THEN THE INSTALL NEW HARDWARE WIZARD STARTED.WHICH STATED THAT MY HDC DRIVER WAS NOT INSTALLED WINDOWS COULD NOT FIND A DRIVER SO I USED THE VIA MB DISK TO TRY RE-INSTALLING IT,BUT THIS DID NOT WORK EITHER.AT THIS POINT I TRIED TO GO DOWNLOAD ONE OF THE NET TO FIND NOW THE NET WAS NOT WORKING WHICH IT HAD BEEN THE DAY BEFORE SO I SUSPECT THE THE ONBOARD LAN IS BUST TOO.
SO THE SYSTEM AT THE MO DOES NOT WORK AT ALL I TRIED TO REINSTALL WINDOWS SUSPECTING A SOFTWARE ERROR BUT WINDOW WOULD NOT GO IN AT ALL THIS TOME GOT THE SAME ERRORS AS BEFORE ABOUT MISSING FILES AND ALSO THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH A COUPLE OF TIMES.
I WOULD LIUKE ANY HELP THAT ANYONE MAY HAVE THIS IS GETTING ON MY TITS NOW.
MY CURRENT SYS SPEC IS AS FOLLLOW:-
MT4V-L MOTHER BOARD
LEATTEK 310 TD G/C AGPX8 256MB
LITEON CDRW/DVD DRIVE
AMD 2600XP 333MHz
COOLMASTER CPU HEATSINK AND FAN
1GB OF GENERIC RAM pc2700 333MHz
THANK YOU TO YOU EVER TAKES THE TIME TO READ THIS LONG POST AND REPLY THANK YOU

Answer 1

Just a thought on your old RAM...
You might try putting some heat spreaders on the the strips if they don't have them already.  I know CompUSA sells them for $7.99 a piece.  I am sure someplace like newegg.com or somewhere sells the things cheaper.  At any rate, my understanding is that most cheaper DDR RAM, especially the higher speeds (2700 and up) are just overclocks of the slower chips.  If that is the case, heat could killing performance (and possibly the hardware   ).  Definitely go with the better RAM though.  I would just be interested in seeing if that solves your problems or not.  My 512MB strip is from Simple Tech.  It is on the cheaper side, so I put a heat spreader on it.  I am only running it at 133mhz because I don't OC (just yet   ), so my RAM might give me problems when I upgrade to a barton core processor or OC my Palamino.  I'm in the process of getting my system cooled as much as possible before I try it.
Post back if you give it a go.