Need help with AthlonXP and Epox 8kt3

[Guest]

OK, I just got a new new Athlon XP 1700+ for X-mas and put it on an Epox 8kt3 mobo I had. Epox shows that it's bigger brother, the 8kt3+, whose only difference is RAID, has support for the chip, and it looks like they never tested the 8kt3. Anyway, the system will not run on a 133 bus. The comp will lock up at random places, and I can never get to windows. At 130 and 127, windows starts, but is unstable, and I lose USB. The system runs at 124, but at this setting the memory runs at 124, PCI at 31, and the CPU is only running at 1364. When I put the jumper on the board to a 100mhz bus, I can get basically any speed upto the limits of the componts (right now I am at 106 bus, with 142 memory, and 36 PCI, and CPU at 1166.) What should I do? I feel pissed off cause I paid 170 bucks for this and I can't get to it's full potential.

A little more. I have never had success flashing the BIOS on this board. When I do, I can't get the system to boot until I clear the CMOS. And the voltage is not right. When I set the voltage to 1.75, it comes out at 1.82. Set it to 1.7, I get 1.76. And set it at 1.65, I get 1.71. I thought this might help, and it is something else that is bugging me.

OK, one more thing What should I run it at right now, a 1364 CPU with slow memory and PCI bus, or at 1166 with a fast memory and PCI bus. I think the later is better, but what do you think.

 

[khha4113]

A little more. I have never had success flashing the BIOS on this board. When I do, I can't get the system to boot until I clear the CMOS. And the voltage is not right. When I set the voltage to 1.75, it comes out at 1.82. Set it to 1.7, I get 1.76. And set it at 1.65, I get 1.71. I thought this might help, and it is something else that is bugging me.

Uh..., you supposed to <b><font color=red>clear</b></font color=red> CMOS after flashing BIOS for your system works properly!
About voltage, my Asus A7V133 and Abit KG7-RAID did the same.
Anyway, what brand and spec of your RAM? (In my case it usually the problem)

Good or Bad have no meaning at all, depends on what your point of view is.

 

[Guest]

On my Abit KT7-RAID I never had to clear the CMOS, but anyway.
Memory is Kingston PC133 memory, 512MB. I doubt that this is the problem as I have been using this memory for almost a year on this baord. Come to think of this, I might have cause this problem in the first place. Back last year I had a Duron on this baord, and I had it running on 133 bus. Then I flashed the BIOS, and it has never worked right on 133 since.