Blue screen/restarts itself

[Sabaselfsit]

My old motherboard broke, and I bought the ASRock K7S41GX and put my AMD Athlon XP 1800+ Palomino in it. But I get a blue error screen on startup. When manually set the bus frequency from 133 down to 128 MHz running as a 1600+ with 1,4 MHz it becomes stable - otherwise at for example 1700+ (and 1800+ of course) it is unstable and restarts. The cpu temperature is normal, so I don't understand what is wrong...

[Mixeur]

The ASRock K7S41GX you bought was new ?

[Sabaselfsit]

[Guest]

But the old motherboard I had was limited to 1,3 so I have never runned the cpu at it's "full potensial" of 1800+...but that should matter.

[D.8080]

See if the pci clock is 33 mhz, in bios.
And Agp at 66 mhz.

If a card is faulty a higher frquency may get the system with a beautiful blue screen.

Maybe it uses it as 133 mhz Fsb but like an overclock?

Set Fsb manually on board and in bios, then give it a try.

[Sabaselfsit]

The PCI Latency Timer (PCI Clocks) is set to 32? I have set the Fsb manually to 266 MHz by jumper...then I manually have to go down to 128MHz from default 133 in the bios to make it stable and avoid this blue screen. However what this screen say when it appear is: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

The graphic card is a Creative 3D Blaster 5 FX5600 XT...which I guess is running at 1,5 volts...the motherboard didn't support 3,3 volt cards.

[D.8080]

Do you have a spare HD to try a new OS install? To test if the hd is going bye bye. If you could have another cpu to test from a firend.

Try this too, http://www.memtest86.com/ , follow indications.



In case of blue screens it's difficult to pinpoint the problem, even at MS they gave up with that, giving 50+ different reasons for a blue screen.

[Sabaselfsit]

Have changed HD - same result. Do not know anyone with socket A cpu's. Was thinking to buy a 3000+ at ebay...but not so fun if I can't run it at 2 GHz. I'll think and see. Thanks anyway.

[D.8080]

Try testing the Ram, try with one stick at a time to load the os.

I have the same problem with an athlon 1400 thunderbird w/ 3 stick of pc133, the problem was the board, as with a different board they work well toghether. I had to run it below 133 mhz.



Or is the cpu going too much high with temp? Heatsink well placed and such. Enough ventilation?


After that I have no other ideas.

[Sabaselfsit]

I only have one memory stick of 1GB...but another stick I can get hold of and try to boot and see if it different then. Heatsink is well placed and temp. ok.

[Sabaselfsit]

It is working! I am running at 1,52GHz (1800+) It was the graphic card apperantly...I forgot to installed the drivers for it on the fresh xp installation ...and when I did no problem. Thanks for help.

[D.8080]

Good to hear.

Play Half life 2 now...