computer problems

[mark845]

could sum help me with this,i have just bought a new gigabytemoitherboard and a amd athlon 2000xp (1.6gig) cpu the motherboard has get a front side bus of 100 133i i set it in the 100 frontside bus but it only reconigies my cpu us a 1.2gig,so i set the jumper to 133 and when to do a fresh install (xp pro) it reconigies the cpu as a 2000 xp but it keeps crashing ican't even complet the install,when it crashes it alwaus seem's to b a diffrent erre message i ve been on the gigabytye website but that was no help, and the manule was no help either. and the board will take an cpu up 2200 xpso its not thatthe cpu is to big for the boared.
Any one got ideas how to sort this out plz

[Faustus]

What kinda ram you have in that think? Also what model board?

[mark845]

i have 1stick ov 256 sdram a 1stick ov 123sdram both pc 133 i m meant to b getting anotherstick ov 512 today and theboard is a a k7 triton ga-7zxe

[Faustus]

Try keeping only one chip in, if it still crashes try only the other, that would be my personal step one.

[mark845]

i have tryed that with no joy

[MOVIEGEEK]

Did you update the BIOS from Mobo web-site?

[mark845]

Did you update the BIOS from Mobo web-site?

surly i shouldnt have to update thebios its a new board

[zodiac]

well it is true that board will take a 2200+,but when buy a board you have to flash the bios for it to support it.
there is a bios update (F7) that will support xp2000+ so you will have to flash F7 or F8.
http://tw.giga-byte.com/support/viakt133a_old.htm#link7zxe

[zodiac]

Did you update the BIOS from Mobo web-site?

surly i shouldnt have to update thebios its a new board

they dont update the bios before they ship it.it could have the first release bios on it.

[mark845]

ok i updataed the bios but still no joyit got to the windos start uo theni git this error

"stop:c00021a fatal system error the session manager initialization unexpectedly with a status of 040000034 (0x00000000 0x00000000)
the system hasshut down"


any 1 no w2ot that means?

[zodiac]

clear your cmos

[mark845]

how do i do that

[zodiac]

look in the manual,it should say or at least tell you where the jumper is.
well its next to the battery.
unplug the computer
there may be three pins.the jumper is on two of them .00 <-like that
move it over like this->00. for a second
then move it back like it was.
plug it back in and go into the bios to change the clock speed.

[Faustus]

If that doesn't work make sure no unneeded cards in in the system, try switching video cards if you have an extra, and if still a no go. Then its time to investigate if your chip or you board one is bad.

[gmatov]

Mark845,
Are you trying to install on an existing installation, or is it a new hard drive?
If it's a new drive, is it fdisked and formatted properly?
If you had XP on this drive, was it working properly?
If not, are you able to wipe out the Windows folder completely, and try again?
You should NOT have to update your BIOS. It is a good idea to do so, especially if it's a version 1.0, but it will work from the box.
You probably should go into the BIOS now and set it to default settings, install, and if you get it running, you can tweak things here and there.
The only thing you might have to do in BIOS is detect HDDs, and today, boards even autodetect that.
If setup crashes, it usually has a corrupted Wininsto.400 folder, 98 does anyhow, and when I have this problem, I set the drive up as slave to a running system and delete the folder. If I don't, it keeps crashing. I learned that the hard way.
Also, if it crashes with a different message each time, it may be going further each time, and eventually finish.
By the way, I have a GA-7ZXE, and had no problem with my AMD 2000 XP processor. It ran flawlessly. Mine runs Win98 and Win 2kPro dual boot.

[mark845]

If that doesn't work make sure no unneeded cards in in the system, try switching video cards if you have an extra, and if still a no go. Then its time to investigate if your chip or you board one is bad.

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i cahnge video cards and it worked, so wot does this mean that my video card is fucked??? i hope not cox this 1i have in now is crap and i mean its realy crap cant even play games in it. bsurely ther must b a way to sort this out. or ther was no junpers for the coms, it says on the side ov the board how to set then to clear the coms but they is none ther, i no it sounds strange but ther is none at all.