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Hi all, any help would be greatly appreciated.
I purchased a brand new AI7 this past weekend, along with a stick of
Corsair VS 2700 ddr. I had a Pentium 4, 2.4ghz processor in a really
bad ECS board that I wanted to put into something good (the ECS
wouldn't let it go over 1.8ghz.) Thus, the reason for the AI7
purchase.
Installed the hard drive (Maxtor 30gb), the CPU, the videocard, the
memory, and a PS2 keyboard. Computer would get all the way through to
Windows XP login, then suddenly restart. This happened endlessly. I
thought it might be my videocard, an Nvidia Geforce4 mx440, so I
swapped it out with another AGP videocard from an HP machine. Same
error. I swapped out the memory too, with the Hynix stick from the HP.
Same error. I flashed the bios to 1.6. Same error.
Tried reinstaling XP (found that solution here in the NG) I hooked up
my CDRom and a WD800 80gb hd (formatted). I received an error saying
that NTLAN.exe (if I remember right) was missing, so I couldn't
reinstall.
I cleared the cmos... many many times.
Next morning, powered on. Now it immediately POSTs to an error code
AF. No mention of that error code in the manual. BUT if I try again,
1/3 of the time I'll get passed the AF error and I'll get an error
telling me the Floppy drive is a problem. This happens with or without
a floppy drive hooked up!
Any thoughts? The motherboard is going to be returned tonight and I'll
try something else unless anybody has any ideas?
TIA
--Rod (Sorry for the long message!)
mem power was set to 2.5v. CPU was set to default (1.5v?) CPU was also
brought down to run at 1.8ghz with no success.
Hi all, any help would be greatly appreciated.
I purchased a brand new AI7 this past weekend, along with a stick of
Corsair VS 2700 ddr. I had a Pentium 4, 2.4ghz processor in a really
bad ECS board that I wanted to put into something good (the ECS
wouldn't let it go over 1.8ghz.) Thus, the reason for the AI7
purchase.
Installed the hard drive (Maxtor 30gb), the CPU, the videocard, the
memory, and a PS2 keyboard. Computer would get all the way through to
Windows XP login, then suddenly restart. This happened endlessly. I
thought it might be my videocard, an Nvidia Geforce4 mx440, so I
swapped it out with another AGP videocard from an HP machine. Same
error. I swapped out the memory too, with the Hynix stick from the HP.
Same error. I flashed the bios to 1.6. Same error.
Tried reinstaling XP (found that solution here in the NG) I hooked up
my CDRom and a WD800 80gb hd (formatted). I received an error saying
that NTLAN.exe (if I remember right) was missing, so I couldn't
reinstall.
I cleared the cmos... many many times.
Next morning, powered on. Now it immediately POSTs to an error code
AF. No mention of that error code in the manual. BUT if I try again,
1/3 of the time I'll get passed the AF error and I'll get an error
telling me the Floppy drive is a problem. This happens with or without
a floppy drive hooked up!
Any thoughts? The motherboard is going to be returned tonight and I'll
try something else unless anybody has any ideas?
TIA
--Rod (Sorry for the long message!)
mem power was set to 2.5v. CPU was set to default (1.5v?) CPU was also
brought down to run at 1.8ghz with no success.
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