Faulty Asus P4C800?

[stilholm]

I just bought the Asus P4C800 Deluxe with a P4 3GHz/800 MHz FSB and 2 Kingston HyperX KHX3200/512 memory modules. When I boot up WinXP, it immediately gives me a warning that it has stopped loading to prevent system damage. It gives me this warning: "stop: 0x0000007B (0xF7C7A640, 0xC00000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)". I don't know if this is a result of a faulty MB (bios v1006), CPU, faulty memory, or AGP video (Creative 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 Ultra). I also don't know if the 3D Blaster is fully compatible with the MB (since it only accepts .8v or 1.5v cards) or if I need special settings for the memory. Thanks in advance for any insight into this problem.

 

[Dejman]

Just to let you know that you cant change a motherboard, ram, CPU and try to boot your Windows XP. If your XP was setup for your old board, it wont boot on the new one.

Microsoft say you have to format and install a fresh copy of XP. But you can just re-install over your current installation (so you wont loose your applications currently installed) and apply any fix required (windows update).

Hope it help you

 

[donc]

I have been having A LOT of problems with my P4C800 also. I don't know all of the various errors that I have experienced but yours seems familiar. I don't know if you have tried updating the BIOS to 1006, but that added a little stability to my system. It still hangs and crashes often though.

 

[stilholm]

I've updated to bios 1007 beta 006. I can now boot into WinXP with one KHX3200/512 module installed, but not two. Tried to run memtest86 3.0 several times, but it hangs my system on every occasion. I'm not sure what that means, but it also hangs with 256MB module of PC2700 CL2.5 DDR RAM. Does this mean something else is wrong?

 

[donc]

The vendor that sold me my Corsair memory suggested that my problem with my system could be something to do with the BIOS incorrectly setting the memory timing. You may want to check up and see if what the actual settings that the manufacturer of your memory suggests, and try setting it manually in the BIOS. I also had problems with memtestx86 which also locked up my system, you may want to try GoldMemory 5.07, which worked on my system.

Hope this helps.

 

[Warpspasm]

I have a P4P800 Deluxe and I'm having problems with 2 PC3200 Kingston HyperX 256 modules as well. One of the sticks seemed particuarly flaky so I sent it back. Now, I'm starting to wonder if perhaps it's not the memory, but the motherboard/memory combination. Right now, with only one 256 module installed it seems to be fairly stable. I wonder what will happen when I get that replacement RAM in the mail and I install it.

I really hope this bug gets worked out.