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To: Esteban who wrote (27122)	5/24/2002 1:48:17 PM
From: Robert Graham	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

Here are some problems that I need help on: I plugged the GeForce4 called in and it worked...for several minutes. Then the screen went blank at the same time a "click" sounded. Now the motherboard does not recognize the card at all. It gives me the one long and three short beeps that it would sound without a video card. So the card is dead. I have not overclocked the board. I am running 133 FSB, 133 SDRAM, 33 PCI with a 1 GHZ CPU, and at this frequency setting, a 1/2 divider automatically kicks in to run the AGP card at about 66 Mhz, which should work. And there is a heat sink and fan on the board. But I did not check to see if the fan was working. The only thing I can see as being out of place is in the event log where an an AGP driver to my old motherboard is trying to load at boot time, but is unable to load. I wonder if that VIA AGP driver that attempted to load managed to cause my video card to be damaged before it gave up with that error message in the event log? Leave it to VIA to not follow the PNP rules. I am running a motherboard with a Intel chipset, not a VIA chipset that my old board used. How can I go through and eliminate driver references to the old motherboard? I booted in safe mode which should reveal all hardware drivers that are set up to be loaded at boot time. But I cannot find the driver that is attempting to load. There must be some registry fix for this. When I installed my new motherboard, the hardware was different enough where WinXP would not boot up even in safe mode. I would get the BSOD and a memory core dump. So I reinstalled WinXP over itself. This loaded the correct drivers, and allowed me to retain my installed programs. Now it is requesting that I activate (again) my copy of WinXP. So I will have to call customer service up at Microsoft when I get the driver problem sorted out. Also, WinXP does save system information that allows a user to restore the OS from a problem, like not being able to boot up. Also restore information is used to allow drivers to be rolled back to a previous version. But I want to erase this restore information, since that pertains to an old motherboard. Anyone know how I can do this? Finally, my disk performance is not what it should be given my previous experience with this board. I am running WinXP instead of the Win98SE I have installed on previous systems that use this board. But this should not make a 20% difference in disk performance. UDMA 5 is enabled for that drive, according to the driver information in the Device Manager, and I am using a 80 conductor cable. I downloaded the latest Intel ATA drivers, including their "application accelerator" (or some such name) drivers that replace the ATA drivers. Performance did not improve in any significant way. I am using Sandra Professional for the disk benchmarks. The adventure with WinXP continues! ;-) Bob Graham PS: I did find out that this board only permits PC100 operation of memory with all three memory slots filled, even though my memory is PC133 capable. I subtract one memory module, and memory performance improves to PC133 speeds. This has been verified with Sandra.