k7vza v3 instability help!

I'm very irritated cause of this motherboard!
It crash every 1-4hours!
1) was the third ram-stick that with the radeon it crashed my sistem
in 2-10 minutes
2) temperature: now i have installed 2 8x8 fan.
3) what is now???? it crash in 6hours also staying in the bios with a
barebone system!!)

Here my configuration:
k7vza v3.0 latest bios upgraded, via 4 in 1 (4.4.9v)
Athlon 1200 (100@12)
3x 128MB sdram PC133
Sound blaster Live! (not the latest drivers, but an old version that
give me less freeze than before)
2x HD maxtor 40GB 7200rpm
Powercolor Radeon 9100 128MB (tried with catalyst 3.5-3.6-3.7-3.8)
SCSI Adaptec 2910C
Realtek generic (network)
Alcatel speed touch usb with driver 2.0.1

Power supply:
300W, 30A on 5v;
voltage: 5V between 5.05~5.15;
12V between 12.37~12.48
3V between 3.31~3.34

Temperature (min-max)
CPU: 34-49
AUX: 32-41
Board: 22-26

Operating system:
windows 2000 - xp

Settings in the bios:
optimized with:
pci delay translation: enabled
fast r-w turn around: disabled
pci master pip. req: disabled
video ram, bios cacheable: disabled
agp master read/write: disabled
p2 cap currency: disabled
ram clock: PC100 (also if memory are PC133)

HELP!!...please

"Flyzone" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I'm very irritated cause of this motherboard!
> It crash every 1-4hours!
> 1) was the third ram-stick that with the radeon it crashed my sistem
> in 2-10 minutes
> 2) temperature: now i have installed 2 8x8 fan.
> 3) what is now???? it crash in 6hours also staying in the bios with a
> barebone system!!)
>
> Here my configuration:
> k7vza v3.0 latest bios upgraded, via 4 in 1 (4.4.9v)
> Athlon 1200 (100@12)
> 3x 128MB sdram PC133
> Sound blaster Live! (not the latest drivers, but an old version that
> give me less freeze than before)
> 2x HD maxtor 40GB 7200rpm
> Powercolor Radeon 9100 128MB (tried with catalyst 3.5-3.6-3.7-3.8)
> SCSI Adaptec 2910C
> Realtek generic (network)
> Alcatel speed touch usb with driver 2.0.1
>
> Power supply:
> 300W, 30A on 5v;
> voltage: 5V between 5.05~5.15;
> 12V between 12.37~12.48
> 3V between 3.31~3.34
>
> Temperature (min-max)
> CPU: 34-49
> AUX: 32-41
> Board: 22-26
>
> Operating system:
> windows 2000 - xp
>
> Settings in the bios:
> optimized with:
> pci delay translation: enabled
> fast r-w turn around: disabled
> pci master pip. req: disabled
> video ram, bios cacheable: disabled
> agp master read/write: disabled
> p2 cap currency: disabled
> ram clock: PC100 (also if memory are PC133)
>
> HELP!!...please

Does your machine crash, or does it freeze? Or both?

I had to set my k7vza set to the least agressive settings, and then the
instability went away. Your 1.2 is rather hard on that crappy voltage
reguator on that board. I would guess a slower thunderbird or faster
palomino would get rid of your problems.

Flyzone () wrote:
: I'm very irritated cause of this motherboard!
: It crash every 1-4hours!
: 1) was the third ram-stick that with the radeon it crashed my sistem
: in 2-10 minutes
: 2) temperature: now i have installed 2 8x8 fan.
: 3) what is now???? it crash in 6hours also staying in the bios with a
: barebone system!!)

: Here my configuration:
: k7vza v3.0 latest bios upgraded, via 4 in 1 (4.4.9v)
: Athlon 1200 (100@12)
: 3x 128MB sdram PC133
: Sound blaster Live! (not the latest drivers, but an old version that
: give me less freeze than before)
: 2x HD maxtor 40GB 7200rpm
: Powercolor Radeon 9100 128MB (tried with catalyst 3.5-3.6-3.7-3.8)
: SCSI Adaptec 2910C
: Realtek generic (network)
: Alcatel speed touch usb with driver 2.0.1

: Power supply:
: 300W, 30A on 5v;
: voltage: 5V between 5.05~5.15;
: 12V between 12.37~12.48
: 3V between 3.31~3.34

: Temperature (min-max)
: CPU: 34-49
: AUX: 32-41
: Board: 22-26

: Operating system:
: windows 2000 - xp

: Settings in the bios:
: optimized with:
: pci delay translation: enabled
: fast r-w turn around: disabled
: pci master pip. req: disabled
: video ram, bios cacheable: disabled
: agp master read/write: disabled
: p2 cap currency: disabled
: ram clock: PC100 (also if memory are PC133)

: HELP!!...please

Download Memtest86 and run it overnight to see if you are error free.


Flyzone <> wrote in message news:<>. ..
> I'm very irritated cause of this motherboard!
> It crash every 1-4hours!
> 1) was the third ram-stick that with the radeon it crashed my sistem
> in 2-10 minutes
> 2) temperature: now i have installed 2 8x8 fan.
> 3) what is now???? it crash in 6hours also staying in the bios with a
> barebone system!!)
>
> Here my configuration:
> k7vza v3.0 latest bios upgraded, via 4 in 1 (4.4.9v)
> Athlon 1200 (100@12)
> 3x 128MB sdram PC133
> Sound blaster Live! (not the latest drivers, but an old version that
> give me less freeze than before)
> 2x HD maxtor 40GB 7200rpm
> Powercolor Radeon 9100 128MB (tried with catalyst 3.5-3.6-3.7-3.8)
> SCSI Adaptec 2910C
> Realtek generic (network)
> Alcatel speed touch usb with driver 2.0.1
>
> Power supply:
> 300W, 30A on 5v;
> voltage: 5V between 5.05~5.15;
> 12V between 12.37~12.48
> 3V between 3.31~3.34
>
> Temperature (min-max)
> CPU: 34-49
> AUX: 32-41
> Board: 22-26
>
> Operating system:
> windows 2000 - xp
>
> Settings in the bios:
> optimized with:
> pci delay translation: enabled
> fast r-w turn around: disabled
> pci master pip. req: disabled
> video ram, bios cacheable: disabled
> agp master read/write: disabled
> p2 cap currency: disabled
> ram clock: PC100 (also if memory are PC133)
>
> HELP!!...please

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:27:17 +0100, "Mr. Slow"
< serve.co.uk> wrote:

>Does your machine crash, or does it freeze? Or both?

freeze:
mouse freeze on the monitor, image is fixed, ctrl+alt+canc doesn't
work, if was playing a wav/mp3/sound, the last second go into loop.
Only reset work. If i power-down, the num-lock led stay on...

Here the memory (3 slot):
a) TwinBios Tech (M.Tech) 128MB PC133 8M*16 (double side),
row=12, col=9, #bank=2, cas=3, module density=64Mbyte
b) VT 3612804T-7H 128MB PC133 16M*8 (single side),
row=12, col=10, #bank=1, cas=2, module density=128Mbyte
c) SP6408 0203 128MB PC133 8M*16 (double side),
row=12, col=9, #bank=2, cas=3, module density=64Mbyte
d) MP0211L1616F 128MB PC133 16M*16 (single side),
row=13, col=9, #bank=1, cas)3 module density=128Mbyte

That the result:
a + b + c = crash in 1-4 hours
a + b + d = crash in 2-5 minutes
a + b OR a + c = crash at start of windows 2000/xp
(STOP error 0x000000c2 ---> for the ms support caused by memory)
b + c = crash in 6-7 hours
a alone OR b alone OR c alone OR d alone: working

Ufff it's boring.. i want back my 440bx

Flyzone

"Flyzone" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:27:17 +0100, "Mr. Slow"
> < serve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >Does your machine crash, or does it freeze? Or both?
>
> freeze:
> mouse freeze on the monitor, image is fixed, ctrl+alt+canc doesn't
> work, if was playing a wav/mp3/sound, the last second go into loop.
> Only reset work. If i power-down, the num-lock led stay on...
>
> Here the memory (3 slot):
> a) TwinBios Tech (M.Tech) 128MB PC133 8M*16 (double side),
> row=12, col=9, #bank=2, cas=3, module density=64Mbyte
> b) VT 3612804T-7H 128MB PC133 16M*8 (single side),
> row=12, col=10, #bank=1, cas=2, module density=128Mbyte
> c) SP6408 0203 128MB PC133 8M*16 (double side),
> row=12, col=9, #bank=2, cas=3, module density=64Mbyte
> d) MP0211L1616F 128MB PC133 16M*16 (single side),
> row=13, col=9, #bank=1, cas)3 module density=128Mbyte
>
> That the result:
> a + b + c = crash in 1-4 hours
> a + b + d = crash in 2-5 minutes
> a + b OR a + c = crash at start of windows 2000/xp
> (STOP error 0x000000c2 ---> for the ms support caused by memory)
> b + c = crash in 6-7 hours
> a alone OR b alone OR c alone OR d alone: working
>
> Ufff it's boring.. i want back my 440bx
>
> Flyzone

Exactly the same problem as I had. You need a bigger power
supply.................

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:30:00 +0100, "Mr. Slow"
< serve.co.uk> wrote:

>Exactly the same problem as I had. You need a bigger power
>supply.................

Wasn't the power supply (((
I have just added an Enermax 431W and i have again the same problem..
ufff...

but i see the Vcore that begine tu up itself over 1.82.. could be this
the cause of crash? So it's the mobo damaged perhaps?? But why only
with 3 modules of ram?!? ufff ((

Fly

Hi,
I had the same problem. My system runs rock-hard since I downgraded my BIOS to version 3.4.
I tried all the nice things as you did, but without success!

Hope that helps!
Klaus



"Flyzone" <> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:...
> I'm very irritated cause of this motherboard!
> It crash every 1-4hours!
> 1) was the third ram-stick that with the radeon it crashed my sistem
> in 2-10 minutes
> 2) temperature: now i have installed 2 8x8 fan.
> 3) what is now???? it crash in 6hours also staying in the bios with a
> barebone system!!)
>
> Here my configuration:
> k7vza v3.0 latest bios upgraded, via 4 in 1 (4.4.9v)
> Athlon 1200 (100@12)
> 3x 128MB sdram PC133
> Sound blaster Live! (not the latest drivers, but an old version that
> give me less freeze than before)
> 2x HD maxtor 40GB 7200rpm
> Powercolor Radeon 9100 128MB (tried with catalyst 3.5-3.6-3.7-3.8)
> SCSI Adaptec 2910C
> Realtek generic (network)
> Alcatel speed touch usb with driver 2.0.1
>
> Power supply:
> 300W, 30A on 5v;
> voltage: 5V between 5.05~5.15;
> 12V between 12.37~12.48
> 3V between 3.31~3.34
>
> Temperature (min-max)
> CPU: 34-49
> AUX: 32-41
> Board: 22-26
>
> Operating system:
> windows 2000 - xp
>
> Settings in the bios:
> optimized with:
> pci delay translation: enabled
> fast r-w turn around: disabled
> pci master pip. req: disabled
> video ram, bios cacheable: disabled
> agp master read/write: disabled
> p2 cap currency: disabled
> ram clock: PC100 (also if memory are PC133)
>
> HELP!!...please

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:18:46 +0100, "Klaus Landzettel" <>
wrote:

>I had the same problem. My system runs rock-hard since I downgraded my BIOS to version 3.4.
>I tried all the nice things as you did, but without success!

Downgraded? You means if i'll use the 3.4 instead of 3.7 it will work?
:-|
Arg i have just installed a single stick of 512MB kingston, and the
problem persist: the only way is using a single stick of 128MB (damn!)
I'll try to downgrade the bios....or i'll trash that fu**ing
video-card!

Fly