Another 7VT600-1394 Problem.

[anonymoose]

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I have a GA-7VT600-1394 motherboard. When I got the board, it had Bios rev.
F5 and everything worked seamlessly with no problems. About 3 months ago, I
flashed the bios to F7 to ensure large hard disk support and every since, at
every power up I get a bios error "Some bios settings have prevented the
system from booting, defaults have been loaded, F1 to continue, DEL for
Setup" and every time I go into the bios and do not change anything and save
+ exit and still at every power up I get the same error. I have reversed
back to bios F5, and tried F6 and back to F7 with no change. I have changed
from the Main bios to the Backup, re programmed both and still no change. I
have also taken all the memory out and tried them all one at a time and with
each stick I get the same error. I'm thinking it may be a memory issue
because I cannot run this ram at 400MHz without frequent system hangs,
crashes, memory cant be read errors and lockups so I keep the speed down to
333MHz. I also get the same crahses, etc @ 400MHz using one stick of this
ram at a time. I haven't tried any other memory as I don't have any to test
but I cant imagine that all 3 sticks are bad altho I have seen stranger
things. It boggles me that this didn't happen until I flashed the BIOS. I do
not overclock my system and no hardware other than a power supply upgrade
has been changed since the day I built the system. Once the system is on, it
will operate normally with the usual occasional lockups about once a month
or so depending on what I'm doing. Any information anyone could provide
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.

GA-7VT600-1394 Mobo
1.5GB Corsair Registered ECC DDR 3200+ (3x512MB CMX512RE-3200LLPT)
(More memory info: http://tinyurl.com/4nr5x)
ATI AIW 9800 Pro 128
36GB WDD SATA Raptor
120GB WDD SATA
120GB ATA133 External Firewire Seagate (used occasionally for backup
purposes only)
New 500W PSU
WinXP Pro SP2

--
A:\DOS\ver
MS-DOS version 2.11
A:\DOS\_

 

[Ian]

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"Anonymoose" <none@this.time> wrote in message
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> I have a GA-7VT600-1394 motherboard. When I got the board, it had Bios
rev.
> F5 and everything worked seamlessly with no problems. About 3 months ago,
I
> flashed the bios to F7 to ensure large hard disk support and every since,
at
> every power up I get a bios error "Some bios settings have prevented the
> system from booting, defaults have been loaded, F1 to continue, DEL for
> Setup" and every time I go into the bios and do not change anything and
save
> + exit and still at every power up I get the same error. I have reversed
> back to bios F5, and tried F6 and back to F7 with no change. I have
changed
> from the Main bios to the Backup, re programmed both and still no change.
I
> have also taken all the memory out and tried them all one at a time and
with
> each stick I get the same error. I'm thinking it may be a memory issue
> because I cannot run this ram at 400MHz without frequent system hangs,
> crashes, memory cant be read errors and lockups so I keep the speed down
to
> 333MHz. I also get the same crahses, etc @ 400MHz using one stick of this
> ram at a time. I haven't tried any other memory as I don't have any to
test
> but I cant imagine that all 3 sticks are bad altho I have seen stranger
> things. It boggles me that this didn't happen until I flashed the BIOS. I
do
> not overclock my system and no hardware other than a power supply upgrade
> has been changed since the day I built the system. Once the system is on,
it
> will operate normally with the usual occasional lockups about once a month
> or so depending on what I'm doing. Any information anyone could provide
> would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.
>
> GA-7VT600-1394 Mobo
> 1.5GB Corsair Registered ECC DDR 3200+ (3x512MB CMX512RE-3200LLPT)
> (More memory info: http://tinyurl.com/4nr5x)
> ATI AIW 9800 Pro 128
> 36GB WDD SATA Raptor
> 120GB WDD SATA
> 120GB ATA133 External Firewire Seagate (used occasionally for backup
> purposes only)
> New 500W PSU
> WinXP Pro SP2
>
> --
> A:\DOS\ver
> MS-DOS version 2.11
> A:\DOS\_
>
>
Check the setting for ACPI/APIC in the BIOS. If it has reverted to APIC
you won't be able to boot an OS installed under ACPI.

 

[anonymoose]

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"Ian" <ian@iano.net> wrote in message
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> Check the setting for ACPI/APIC in the BIOS. If it has reverted to APIC
> you won't be able to boot an OS installed under ACPI.
>
I combed the BIOS, only thing I found relating to ACPI is in power
management and its changable from S1 (POS) to S3 (STR). There is no function
to change from APIC to ACPI. Its currently set to S3.

 

[Guest]

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Anonymoose Wrote:
> I have a GA-7VT600-1394 motherboard. When I got the board, it had Bios
> rev.
> F5 and everything worked seamlessly with no problems. About 3 months
> ago, I
> flashed the bios to F7 to ensure large hard disk support and every
> since, at
> every power up I get a bios error "Some bios settings have prevented
> the
> system from booting, defaults have been loaded, F1 to continue, DEL
> for
> Setup" and every time I go into the bios and do not change anything and
> save
> + exit and still at every power up I get the same error. I have
> reversed
> back to bios F5, and tried F6 and back to F7 with no change. I have
> changed
> from the Main bios to the Backup, re programmed both and still no
> change. I
> have also taken all the memory out and tried them all one at a time and
> with
> each stick I get the same error. I'm thinking it may be a memory issue
> because I cannot run this ram at 400MHz without frequent system hangs,
> crashes, memory cant be read errors and lockups so I keep the speed
> down to
> 333MHz. I also get the same crahses, etc @ 400MHz using one stick of
> this
> ram at a time. I haven't tried any other memory as I don't have any to
> test
> but I cant imagine that all 3 sticks are bad altho I have seen
> stranger
> things. It boggles me that this didn't happen until I flashed the BIOS.
> I do
> not overclock my system and no hardware other than a power supply
> upgrade
> has been changed since the day I built the system. Once the system is
> on, it
> will operate normally with the usual occasional lockups about once a
> month
> or so depending on what I'm doing. Any information anyone could
> provide
> would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.
>
> GA-7VT600-1394 Mobo
> 1.5GB Corsair Registered ECC DDR 3200+ (3x512MB CMX512RE-3200LLPT)
> (More memory info: http://tinyurl.com/4nr5x)
> ATI AIW 9800 Pro 128
> 36GB WDD SATA Raptor
> 120GB WDD SATA
> 120GB ATA133 External Firewire Seagate (used occasionally for backup
> purposes only)
> New 500W PSU
> WinXP Pro SP2
>
> --
> A:\DOS\ver
> MS-DOS version 2.11
> A:\DOS\_
Have you tried putting the old power supply back in?
I have a new pc with the same mobo and as yet failed to install my old
XP OS
I'm thinking of buying a new XP oem cd but I'm still not sure if there
isn't a
memory problem. The stick works ok in another pc.
My system:GA7-VT600 1394 F7
GIGABYTE NVIDIA 5200 FX
AMD Sempron 2400
Maxtor pata 40 GB
512 pc3200 no name
Arctic cooling T2 box 350W


--
Stephen Bowden

 

[anonymoose]

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"Stephen Bowden" <Stephen.Bowden.1lzcju@news.computerbanter.com> wrote in
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> Have you tried putting the old power supply back in?
> I have a new pc with the same mobo and as yet failed to install my old
> XP OS
> I'm thinking of buying a new XP oem cd but I'm still not sure if there
> isn't a
> memory problem. The stick works ok in another pc.
> My system:GA7-VT600 1394 F7
> GIGABYTE NVIDIA 5200 FX
> AMD Sempron 2400
> Maxtor pata 40 GB
> 512 pc3200 no name
> Arctic cooling T2 box 350W
>
>
> --
> Stephen Bowden

I haven't tried that, but it did the same thing before I changed PSUs. I did
see your post about your problem. I have 2 SATA drives and have installed
WinXP Pro on them many-o-times with out any problem. I never used the driver
from the CD-ROM, I downloaded the latest version from the gigabyte website
before i installed and its always worked. I've never used a PATA hard disk
in this system so I dunno about that. Have you tried installing winxp to
both SATA and PATA or just PATA?

 

[anonymoose]

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"Stephen Bowden" <Stephen.Bowden.1lzcju@news.computerbanter.com> wrote in
message news:Stephen.Bowden.1lzcju@news.computerbanter.com...

> I'm thinking of buying a new XP oem cd but I'm still not sure if there
> isn't a
> memory problem. The stick works ok in another pc.
> My system:GA7-VT600 1394 F7
> GIGABYTE NVIDIA 5200 FX
> AMD Sempron 2400
> Maxtor pata 40 GB
> 512 pc3200 no name
> Arctic cooling T2 box 350W
>
>
> --
> Stephen Bowden

Ok just saw your post. if you cant install both, could be a mem problem.
thats an odd one. have you tried another stick of ram? or perhaps another
cpu temporarily?

 

[Ian]

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"Anonymoose" <none@this.time> wrote in message
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> "Ian" <ian@iano.net> wrote in message
> news:4237a4c4$1_1@mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com...
> > Check the setting for ACPI/APIC in the BIOS. If it has reverted to
APIC
> > you won't be able to boot an OS installed under ACPI.
> >
> I combed the BIOS, only thing I found relating to ACPI is in power
> management and its changable from S1 (POS) to S3 (STR). There is no
function
> to change from APIC to ACPI. Its currently set to S3.
>
>
Press ctrl-f1 to unlock advanced BIOS options.

 

[Guest]

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Anonymoose Wrote:
> "Stephen Bowden" Stephen.Bowden.1lzcju@news.computerbanter.com wrote in
> message news:Stephen.Bowden.1lzcju@news.computerbanter.com...-
> Have you tried putting the old power supply back in?
> I have a new pc with the same mobo and as yet failed to install my
> old
> XP OS
> I'm thinking of buying a new XP oem cd but I'm still not sure if
> there
> isn't a
> memory problem. The stick works ok in another pc.
> My system:GA7-VT600 1394 F7
> GIGABYTE NVIDIA 5200 FX
> AMD Sempron 2400
> Maxtor pata 40 GB
> 512 pc3200 no name
> Arctic cooling T2 box 350W
>
>
> --
> Stephen Bowden-
>
> I haven't tried that, but it did the same thing before I changed PSUs.
> I did
> see your post about your problem. I have 2 SATA drives and have
> installed
> WinXP Pro on them many-o-times with out any problem. I never used the
> driver
> from the CD-ROM, I downloaded the latest version from the gigabyte
> website
> before i installed and its always worked. I've never used a PATA hard
> disk
> in this system so I dunno about that. Have you tried installing winxp
> to
> both SATA and PATA or just PATA?
How did you manage that? the SATA driver on the website is nearly 6Mb!
I say this because my initial set up included a Maxtor 160Gb SATA drive
and I
thought it might be a driver problem. I found no way of loading the
drivers
apart from making a floppy disk for the SATA drive from the cd rom.
I thought I'd remove the complication by sticking with a PATA drive

Maybe the F7 bios update is complete ********!


--
Stephen Bowden

 

[anonymoose]

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"Ian" <ian@iano.net> wrote in message
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Normally, it would have defaulted to APIC which allows the OS to use more
> interrupts and other things. Let's assume yours was installed under APIC,
> so leave it set at that. What you may want to do is load defaults in the
> Advanced Chipset section, eg Fast Command to Normal, etc, just to see if
> one
> of those settings has been screwing your RAM up or whatever.
>
Thanks again, loaded the standard defaults, same error, went in and manually
set all my mem timings to the slowest, 3.0CAS, CL CMD, etc. with the same
error. Then I tried the specs the ram calls for and still got the same
error, however, with the manual settings for the ram specs the ram now runs
good at 400MHz it seems.

 

[anonymoose]

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>Stephen Bowden" <Stephen.Bowden.1m0qjv@news.computerbanter.com> wrote in
>message news:Stephen.Bowden.1m0qjv@news.computerbanter.com...
> How did you manage that? the SATA driver on the website is nearly 6Mb!
> I say this because my initial set up included a Maxtor 160Gb SATA drive
> and I
> thought it might be a driver problem. I found no way of loading the
> drivers
> apart from making a floppy disk for the SATA drive from the cd rom.
> I thought I'd remove the complication by sticking with a PATA drive
>
> Maybe the F7 bios update is complete ********!
> --
> Stephen Bowden

Yep, the entire download is 5.89MB according to their site, but the part of
the driver you need will fit to a floppy for a windows installation. You can
always install the SATA tools etc later. When I downloaded the driver I
extracted it to another pc and opened the"DriverDisk" folder. Go into the
DriverDisk folder and copy its contents to the A:\ drive (TXTSETUP.OEM and
VT6420 need to be in the ROOT directory of the floppy disk). Begin your
installation of WinXP and when it says press F6 to select additional mass
storage controller (or something similar to that) do so and it should come
right up on the screen once it reads the floppy. try this and post back,
hope it helps. This is what I do every time I re install windows on my
system and I always re download the file to make sure I have the latest
driver. but thats just me. good luck.

 

[Guest]

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Anonymoose Wrote:
> Stephen Bowden" Stephen.Bowden.1m0qjv@news.computerbanter.com wrote in-
> message news:Stephen.Bowden.1m0qjv@news.computerbanter.com...
> How did you manage that? the SATA driver on the website is nearly
> 6Mb!
> I say this because my initial set up included a Maxtor 160Gb SATA
> drive
> and I
> thought it might be a driver problem. I found no way of loading the
> drivers
> apart from making a floppy disk for the SATA drive from the cd rom.
> I thought I'd remove the complication by sticking with a PATA drive
>
> Maybe the F7 bios update is complete ********!
> --
> Stephen Bowden-
>
> Yep, the entire download is 5.89MB according to their site, but the
> part of
> the driver you need will fit to a floppy for a windows installation.
> You can
> always install the SATA tools etc later. When I downloaded the driver
> I
> extracted it to another pc and opened the"DriverDisk" folder. Go into
> the
> DriverDisk folder and copy its contents to the A:\ drive (TXTSETUP.OEM
> and
> VT6420 need to be in the ROOT directory of the floppy disk). Begin
> your
> installation of WinXP and when it says press F6 to select additional
> mass
> storage controller (or something similar to that) do so and it should
> come
> right up on the screen once it reads the floppy. try this and post
> back,
> hope it helps. This is what I do every time I re install windows on my
> system and I always re download the file to make sure I have the
> latest
> driver. but thats just me. good luck.
Thanks I'll give it a go.I already have the download on cd. I'll let
you know
how things go. Cheers.


--
Stephen Bowden

 

[anonymoose]

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Thanks for all your help, I have found out from Gigabyte that the
7VT600-1394 does not support Registered ECC memory of any type. Only
unbuffered can be used so that must be my problem. Anyway, thanks again.