I am trying work out a problem with an H.P. system I recently bought, It constantly locks up or sometimes even throws me ouy totally and tries to reboot the system when ever I play any and every 3-d game, but never has any error messages.
It is an 800 Atlon, uses a "Pandora motherboard" which is a house branded Asus K7M, with some slight differences for H.P. only and with only very basic adjustments you can set in the bios, I have 196 megs of memory, which shows 100 to 125 megs open after boot up, 97% system resources open, no ghost drivers or add-on hardware in the background, pulled out the TNT2 video card, and put in a Geforce2 GTS DDR 32 meg card with a fan on the chip, I pulled out the 185 watt power supply and put in a 300 watt AMD approved one, the system has large heat sink, and a very large fan aimed right the cpu, I pulled the factory combo audio card and put in a S.B. Live card.
All of these upgrades were done 1 at a time, with no difference, and with the latest drivers for everything including the AMD 751 chipset, DX 7.0a, reflashed the bios (used H.P.s update, don't know if I dare use the Asus one)reloaded the O.S. and reformatted the H.D. several times, the video card has a dedicated irq.
These problems seem to go away when I run Dxdiag and disable agp support, but then I lose my frame rates bad, and when I run Sisandra or Wcpuid, they both show the agp speed running at 1x not the 2x it is rated at, and even when I edit the registry it stays at 1x, but at this point I don't care about that, H.P. support and their "forum" are completely clueless or don't what to fess up to this problem at all.
So, what is the deal with these problems I am reading about with Athlon, Nvidia combos not working together? or a early Asus m.b. problems? or both? suggested cures or ideas? different m.b.? which one? (slot a), another video card? (I don't think a Voodoo 5 will fit in the case due to it's apparent length, and the location of my drives)
Any input or ideas on this would be great.
It is an 800 Atlon, uses a "Pandora motherboard" which is a house branded Asus K7M, with some slight differences for H.P. only and with only very basic adjustments you can set in the bios, I have 196 megs of memory, which shows 100 to 125 megs open after boot up, 97% system resources open, no ghost drivers or add-on hardware in the background, pulled out the TNT2 video card, and put in a Geforce2 GTS DDR 32 meg card with a fan on the chip, I pulled out the 185 watt power supply and put in a 300 watt AMD approved one, the system has large heat sink, and a very large fan aimed right the cpu, I pulled the factory combo audio card and put in a S.B. Live card.
All of these upgrades were done 1 at a time, with no difference, and with the latest drivers for everything including the AMD 751 chipset, DX 7.0a, reflashed the bios (used H.P.s update, don't know if I dare use the Asus one)reloaded the O.S. and reformatted the H.D. several times, the video card has a dedicated irq.
These problems seem to go away when I run Dxdiag and disable agp support, but then I lose my frame rates bad, and when I run Sisandra or Wcpuid, they both show the agp speed running at 1x not the 2x it is rated at, and even when I edit the registry it stays at 1x, but at this point I don't care about that, H.P. support and their "forum" are completely clueless or don't what to fess up to this problem at all.
So, what is the deal with these problems I am reading about with Athlon, Nvidia combos not working together? or a early Asus m.b. problems? or both? suggested cures or ideas? different m.b.? which one? (slot a), another video card? (I don't think a Voodoo 5 will fit in the case due to it's apparent length, and the location of my drives)
Any input or ideas on this would be great.
