Q: built a new system at the weekend. VAT this is my fifth time so I go inside with a good idea of what to do.
P4 2.533ghz 977 503 512 RDRAM Radeon 8500 AIW
ATI
SB Audigy
60gig WD HDD
350w food
ASUS P4T533C
usb mouse and motherboard keyboard
Ok involved. Place the CPU on the mobo and checked for power . The mobo light was on, but it would not turn on. Thought it might somehow need the HD / cdrom to be connected . connected . Yet, still no power. Called a local PC shop . They recommended all unconnecting hd / cdrom ide ribbon and power cables. Woot . Now I have the power to get fans back on, everything seems fine. Loading xp and install all drivers. Drivers were dl from another comp so they are the most recent files. System seems. I right-click on the desktop to a new folder and create the machine crashes. The Blue Screen of Death comes up and suggests I start in safe mode . It will not work, no safe mode, no last known config . nothing. I tried this on multiple hard drives and still nothing. I kinda think it is the mobo or power supply as a result of my first problems. Ive tried different ide ribbons in case. Does anyone know of any problems with this mobo and what I have to hokked
Best Answer: 1) Wireless. I'm not sure about your wireless adapter, but with the wired 100megabit per second is only the cap on the line. In reality you get much less than that, besides the whole bit > Byte conversion. I know at my uni the connection speeds increased by a factor of 2-4 by switching to gigabit. In a home network that shouldn't really matter. 100mbps is still faster than what your internet provides you. In that case the 100mbps is for LAN transfers.
2) The USB ports on the G15 are USB 1.1, and provide no power. This is why your stuff doesn't work. With the ports on the board, I would presume that's either a) a BIOS option [overclockers like to disable their USB to minimize voltage drops] or b) you didn't install the drivers. Install the nvidia chipset drivers, which should be on the cd that came with the motherboard. If you have more issues on that, try out the EVGA forums. They're great guys there. While I don't have your particular motherboard (I've got the EVGA X58) there's a section dedicated to the 750i/730i [http://www.evga.com/forums/tt.asp?forumi…
3) CMOS losing data. My first guess would be that it's losing your settings. Make sure your CMOS battery is situated right and (if that board has one) the reset CMOS button isn't being depressed by the i/o shield. Try entering the BIOS and setting the time, and save the current CPU settings as a profile. I believe that board supports overclocking profiles. Remove the Floppy from the boot order (that could be all that's causing the boot issue).
4) WMP does not have DVD decoding support out of the box. I'd download VLC or Media Player Classic. I personally use the Combined Community Codec Pack (www.cccp-project.net)
Hope that helps. Definitely try the EVGA forums. Remember there's always the 24/7 tech support. You did register in <30days for the lifetime warranty, didn't you? If not, you still get like 1-2 years of coverage.
Re:This is what I was asking about.
Intel(R) Chipset Software Installation Utility V4.00.1009 (http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/utils/inf41009.zip)
Re:http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=P4T533-C
The drivers I used are here.
Re:They should be the same drivers.
Did you install the INTEL Chipset driver?
Re:I was using the drivers that came with the mobo. On another install I used drivers downloaded from the Asus website specific to my mobo. Do I have to use the Asus driver or can I use the generic ones that you posted?
Re:Are you using the default driver from WinXP?
If so, try this:
NEC USB 2.0 Chipset driver WinXP (http://ftp.gigabyte.com.tw/support/driver/usb_20.zip)
Re:Well, it was the ram. I got some new ram and now I have a new problem. XP install goes fine but after I install all the latest drivers it crashes after like 20 minutes. I have reinstalled XP and only the vid and sound card drivers….it seems fine. I think I have it narrowed down to the USB2 drivers creating the problem. Does anyone know of any issues out there with xp and the asus usb2 drivers? Or is anyone having the same issue?
Re:hi,
definitely the ram then since it wont read size correctly. ocz has gotten quite the reputation for bad ram around here. do a search if you are interested.
might i reccomend samsung ram? always has worked well for me.
good luckl
Re:Thanks…I did notice the ram shows up as 448meg. I am using OCZ pc1066.
Re:hi,
definitely check ram like lilithtech says, docmemory link (http://www.simmtester.com/PAGE/products/doc/docinfo.asp) will allow you to create a bootdisk with the tester on it. i think that memtest will also.
also, swap out ps if you have another one that you can test with.
hope this helps
Re:Whose RAM are you using?
This board is very finicky.
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