Just to give you a quick background on my pc, i'm Running an Athlon XP 1600+, Gigabyte 7VTXH MOBO, Radeon 7500 OEM, and 768MB PC2400 DDR. The OS i'm running is Windows XP Professional. I'm also currently running the F2 Bios on my motherboard, which came out October 11, 2001.
Basically my Bios is about 6 months old, and since then, they have come out with a F3, F4, F5, and now an F6 Bios version. The newer bios' have support for Athlon XP 2200+, larger hard drives, and more. So I figured it would be worth updating it.
However, everytime I update my bios, my system becomes very unstable. I tried a beta F7, i also tried the F6, F5, and F4 bios. All let me get into windows, but all are unstable for me. The only way to get the stability back is going back to F2.
I called Gigabyte on this, and they said maybe I need to put the new bios on, and then re-install XP
They think maybe it's XP's fault, does this sound right to anyone? Has anyone else encountered this?
<i> If you buy a pre-packaged pc, shame on you </i>
Basically my Bios is about 6 months old, and since then, they have come out with a F3, F4, F5, and now an F6 Bios version. The newer bios' have support for Athlon XP 2200+, larger hard drives, and more. So I figured it would be worth updating it.
However, everytime I update my bios, my system becomes very unstable. I tried a beta F7, i also tried the F6, F5, and F4 bios. All let me get into windows, but all are unstable for me. The only way to get the stability back is going back to F2.
I called Gigabyte on this, and they said maybe I need to put the new bios on, and then re-install XP
They think maybe it's XP's fault, does this sound right to anyone? Has anyone else encountered this?<i> If you buy a pre-packaged pc, shame on you </i>
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