Dan-O, here's a little FUD for you, as just a small token in return for all your anti-Intel FUD: another possible AMD PC horror show hits the net. Wonder if it's for real, or if he's an AMD basher. From the Motley Fool:
Author: tristanrhodes Number: of 69609
Subject: OT: New AMD dream system - Why does it freeze?! Date: 7/21/01 12:19 PM
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I just built what I thought was my dream system.
1.4 GHz Thunderbird (266 FSB)
MSI K7 Master MB
512 MB 2100 Micron DDR RAM
Gainward Cardex 64 MB GeForce3 Gold Edition (for video editing)
60 GB IBM 7200 RPM 60GXP
Sound Blaster Live! Value
D-Link 10/100 NIC
Creative Modem Blaster
Sony 12x/8x/32x CD-RW
Toshiba 16x DVD
Enlight 7237 300 Watt case
This system Fdisks, formats, and installs Windows without problems, but once I start installing drivers and applications for my peripherals, it randomly locks up. No error message, no blue screen, just a frozen mouse and everything else. The hard drive light is frozen on too. I have tried clean installs of both Win ME and Win 98 SE. They both have the same problem, although Win98 seems to let me get farther before it locks up.
What is causing this? Incompatibility? I am going to flash a newer bios, although I don't think it will help my problem. Has anyone ever ran into this before? I need to know soon what hardware to send back if something is faulty. Could this be a bad processor? I've never ran across such a random bug on a new machine. I would appreciate any help, I really want to fix this soon. Thanks in advance.
Oddly the motherboard detects my processor at 1050 MHz, so I have to manaully set the BIOS setting of FSB to 133. Then it correctly runs at 1400 MHz.
Tristan Rhodes
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