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Petar Raickovic

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HI i have problems with my Very old pc.... IT has Gigabyte Ga 7VA mobo... And i dont know how to update bios sinc i dont have Flopy.. And i have problems i cant install windows here is the picture of what is the problem i never seen this in my life so i need some old school guy :) here is the picture http://postimg.org/image/pbxem0xlh/ http://postimg.org/image/a0ud0yu4f/
 
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Two things spring to mind looking at the screen shots you provided.
Looking at it were dealing with a Athlon based cpu.

The error is due to the memory either set or running at the wrong speed in the bios.
Speed should be set to 166Mhz.

You will also need to pull the memory out and look at the sticker on it.
Take a note of the timing settings, and check they are correct in the bios of the board.

Next enable memory hole remapping if the bios has the option for it.
The board without doubt will use the old 40 Pin IDE cable for connection of the hard drives in the system, or any dvd optical drives.

Make sure that the primary hard drive is connected to the primary IDE, or first IDE port on the motherboard.
That the setting jumper on the...
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Two things spring to mind looking at the screen shots you provided.
Looking at it were dealing with a Athlon based cpu.

The error is due to the memory either set or running at the wrong speed in the bios.
Speed should be set to 166Mhz.

You will also need to pull the memory out and look at the sticker on it.
Take a note of the timing settings, and check they are correct in the bios of the board.

Next enable memory hole remapping if the bios has the option for it.
The board without doubt will use the old 40 Pin IDE cable for connection of the hard drives in the system, or any dvd optical drives.

Make sure that the primary hard drive is connected to the primary IDE, or first IDE port on the motherboard.
That the setting jumper on the back of the IDE based hard disk is set to master device and connected to the black colored block of the IDE cable, If you also have an optical drive connected to the same IDE ribbon make sure the jumper on the back of the optical drive is set to Slave, connect to the grey colored block of the IDE ribbon cable.

If you have no floppy drive in the system, disable the floppy drive controller in the bios set each floppy device to disabled.

In the boot order list section of the bios, make sure the optical disk drive is set as the first boot device.
And the system hard drive is set to the second boot device.

I`m surprised myself I remembered all of that lol.
But if you check all of the above over it should boot what ever version of windows os was installed on the system from 98 NT, to XP.
Or install and setup from CD disc.
 
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Hey guys thanks a lot for all support... It was late i will try all that tommorow :) yeah PC is from i think 2003 year... Old junk but why will i throw it? :) if u get what i mean.. I have AMD Duron 1200 Mhz CPU inside... And i have Sempron 2400 mhz ... But i cant put it in sinc i need to update bios.... , I was trying to install Windows XP and that kind of error jump out ( screenshots) well i will check alll that Mister @Shaun o, Bios setting are Memory Mhz ( auto ) and i think i have 333 MHZ 2x 512, Im not sure about HDD but i know they are 64gb Maxtors... And 9200 Ati GPU ( hahahahaha ) :D :D i will update tommorow if u want to follow the post :) thanks a lot im so glad ppl answered
 
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Well i dont have it... and windows 2000 was never installed on that pc.. i dunno why it ask Spec for 2000 Windows... Can i remove all from HDD ? or there is must install windows 2000
 
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Hey guys update... i was able to turn it on without error did change slots with ram and get out 2 of 256... and stay with single 512... Well i was able to delete partition and Create new one.... Well formating was 5 hours i think maybe more and at the END i got BSOD ( blue screen of death ) hahaha ... SO boring... i will try tommorow with other HDD.. but i think HDD's are peace of junk Maxtor dimond super 8 40 GB i wont give up so easy :D this is fun for me... my first pc i think it was 2001 or 2003 when i bought it i mean mine mom :). P.S And i was trying to install windows 7 but i only have 64 bit verion, And i got message that mine CPU dosent support 64 bit operating system..... i dont know will 32 bit work? If i menage to install 32 bit I was tought to install Driver Booster :D for drivers
 
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Paul I have service pack 3 xp, and windows 7 64 bit. Win 7 can't install coz CPU doesn't support, AMD duron 1200 mhz. On win xp install on part when you do formating I got blue screen of death. Can anyone tell me if I install Windows and all can I upgrade bios of mine mobo? So I can throw in and sempron 2.4 and install win 7 if that is even possible :) ?
 
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Update i menaged to install windows ... 1 Stick of 512 ram was bad.... so now it has only 2x 256 on 333 mhz i think or ( 166 ) what ever is that.... Timings are same i cant remember but i think 2.5-3-3-7. Pc works ok.. but here is what is weird ( cant install google chrome or any browswer so i downloaded driver booster updated all drivers and i installed other programs from other Pc then copy to usb and install on this pc still cant install Flash player etc... ) Ok weird think is i updated Mobo bios with gigabyte utility ( coz i dont have Flopy to update old school ) i cant do it with usb Mobo dosent support ... Bios is f12 ( old one was f9 ) but when i installed CPUZ it showes that mine Bios is F9 ? dunno why.... + i had AMD duron 1200, coz i updated bios i installed AMD sempron 2400+ When i installed in mobo mine pc read it like Athlon MP 1000 mhz? I have read on gigabyte site that Sempron 2400 is supported on mine mobo http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=1409#ov ( anyway Pc works ok in generaly but i dont know why it reads Sempron like AMD Athlon 1000mhz... ) Can i overclock it ?
 
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