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Anonymous   03-06-2001 at 02:09:27 AM

Help! I recently bought some new parts, thought foolishly that I could throw them together, and you know what, it doesn't work. If anyone has any advice drop me a line. This is what I've got:
AMD Athlon 1GHz Thunderbird CPU
Award BIOS
FIC Mobo, VIA kt133
Soundblaster Soundcard 5.1 MP3 version, slot 3
ATI all-in-wonder video card, AGP slot
generic ethernet network card, slot 1
Compaq 56k PCI internal modem, slot 4
256Meg SDRAM PC100
win 98 OS
Toshiba DVD drive
Acer CD R/W drive
Seagate ATA 66 30GB Harddrive
I've even assigned IRQ 5 to the soundblaster, cause I've heard you should. The main problem is that all of a sudden the PC just plain dies, and nothing short of unplugging it and plugging it back in will allow it to reboot.
Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Thanks

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scarecrow   03-06-2001 at 02:58:01 AM
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I'm just guessing but your using pc100 memory and it looks like the motherboard is pc133 by the model#. Check the manuel and see what the fsb is.
So what exactly do you mean "it doen't work."? What happens when you boot it up? Does it post?

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TheAntipop   03-06-2001 at 03:08:33 AM
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DONT STICK ANYTHING IN SLOT 1!!!!!! it shares IRQs with the AGP slot, and win98 is horrible at keeping track of them, move it to slot 2 and that may help, but as a general rule never put stuff in slot 1

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Grizely1   03-07-2001 at 12:20:31 AM
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You might want to move that ethernet card to another PCI slot. the 1st pci slot share an IRQ with AGP

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