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New computer mess

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Munka

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Hello people, I'm a newbie here but I need a hand, recently I've bought the components for a new computer (some are new some are being recycled). The components are as follows:

Asus P4P800 (non-delux) mobo
3 Ghz P4
1 Gig of Pc3200 Ram (2 x 512)
52x32x52x LG GCE-8525B CD burner
Radeon 7000 pro 64 Mb (I know, I know...) I have also tried other video cards in it, a radeon 9000 pro, a GF4 Ti4200 and a Ti4600
160Gb SATA Seagate barracuda

okay, well, I've thrown it all together, it worked perfectly for about 4 hours, then it froze, I didn't think all that much of it, rebooted, reloaded unreal tournament.... and it froze a lot quicker this time. When I tried to reboot the thing simply would not, it began loading windows and then the screen went blank and unresponsive. When I rebboted again it told me I had a bad bios checksum and it told me to insert the motherboard driver cd... I did so and it flashed my bios. It began to boot, though it froze promptly after windows started. I've downloaded the latest BIOS version from the asus website and put it on a floppy and I used that to flash it, but I got the same problem, sometimes it just flashes, tells me to reboot then simply asks me to flash the bios yet again. I've used the jumpers to clear the CMOS and when I do that before flashing the BIOS it usually boots up and works with windows for a while untill it freezes a while later...

now, when I have the Radeon 7000 in it, it says "radeon 7000 64 Mb" right above the "Bad CMOS checksum" in Dos... which is interesting, anyone heard of a problem with this mobo and lower end radeons? It's frozen in windows with the ATi cards, but then again I've never got it working with an Nvidia one either... Overall it seems like a faulty motherboard to me though... bad bios chip maybe? I've called ASUS support and they say it dosen't sound like a bad Bios chip, but a bios setting. This sounds like bull to me since I am using the default settings...

To make matters worse, I bought the board in Canada, but since I'm living in Norway it's not like I can take it right back... plus they told me that flashing the bios voids the warranty... despite the fact that the damn thing told me to insert the disk so it could do just that...it's not like I had an option... Furthermore, the same board costs well over four times what it does in Canada....

anyway, that about sums up my problems, any info\advice you could give me is greatly apreciated...
 
Isnt checksum hard drive and or ram related? go into the bios and force the comptuer to recognize your hard drive, I dont have asus but there should be a device thing u can find it by browsing the bios if u can get in and then update all devices
 
I doubt it, Im quite sure it's to do with bios, since it flashes the thing... on top of that it happens well before you can even get into the bios... and when I can get into bios I can always find my drives and stuff... so that's not the problem, thanks anyway...
 
Well one question, why did you spend all the money on good stuff and then crap out with the video card?
 
try resetting the cmos, however it shouldnt go bad by itself like that. if it does the same thing again after resetting the cmos i would RMA the board
 
"Well one question, why did you spend all the money on good stuff and then crap out with the video card?"
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okay, well, firstly, im a highschool student living in my parents basement.... and the computer is for my dad...and since his life dosen't depend on frame rates and frags, a radeon 9000 pro will be good eough for him to have two monitors on once I get my new card..... and uhh, yeah, I've resetted the CMOS a lot already... it just takes a seemingly random ammount of time for it to go bad again... and uhh....RMA? (sorry im a noobtard)
 
haha sorry about that, I forgot to mention, yeah it is in right and I've tried changing the battery too... still no luck :(
 
what temps is the cpu running at and are all the speed settings right like the cpu speed and ram speed.
 
When I boot, and leave it running for a couple of minutes it's still pretty normal - - CPU temp 29C/86F - - Mobo temp 23 C/ 73F

CPU fan at ~3.1k rpm...

I have all bios settings to defaults pretty much...the P4P800 has an "auto" performance mode...which I guess OC's the thing if its in a demanding situation I guess... it's set to auto by default, but I have not noticed any difference turning it off...
 
try taking out one stick of ram, and then if it is fine, replace it with the other one. you will eliminate ram trouble.

if both sticks are good by themselves then its MB trouble if u cant do both.
 
okay, I did that and it booted (from being previously screwed...bios checksum again), however I tried installing windows and I got a blue screen telling me "Driver IRQL not less or equal"....what can this mean considering i have nothing on it?

okay, just got ANOTHER blue screen...I made it to installing windows and now I get "PFN_List_Corrupt"

guess I better hope for that new bios chip, huh? :(
 
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