Abit IS7 Motherboard problems, please help

[Ron (21)]

I recently installed an IS7, Pentium 4 2.6, and 512 Meg PC3200 Memory. Now, the machine will no boot up. It gets as far as the Windows XP welcome screen, and for a split second, i can see a blue screen, but it goes by too fast, so I cannot see the error message. And it simply starts from scratch. I did not really touch any of the settings in the Bios.

Well, i thought it might be the memory, so i took it to a local computer shop, and they tried 2 other types of memory, and the same thing happened. He recommended I try to reinstall the operating system. He also said it may be the video card (Visiontek GeForce TI4200 128Meg), but i dont think that is the problem because it is relatively new. Power supply is 350watt, hard drive is a crappy IBM ata/100 60 Gig, so maybe the hard drive is not welcomed by the motherboard.

Anyone have any suggestions for me?

Thanks,
Ron

 

[TomG]

the 875 and 865 chipsets on the IC7 and IS7 are "particular" about ram. frequently, moving the DDR voltage to 2.7 and setting the ram timing to looser numbers, as opposed to "By SPD". set the timing to as high as possible for each of the 4 settings just as a starting point with the idea of reducing the numbers as soon as you are comfortable the system is stable and you know what "normal" behavior is for the system.

 

[Robert Van Vugt]

Ron - I had exactly the same trouble with my IS7-G and what worked was to format and re-install OS on the HDD. I have not had a problem since. I do not know what actually causes this but suspect a problem with the MBR (master boot record) on the HDD. This was using a WD 60G 7200rpm HDD and PNY GF4 Ti4200 64M. Also can you possible verify that your Standby/Sleep LED is on all the time and blinks when in sleep mode? Seems it should be off all the time and only blink when asleep?

Robert

"Ron" wrote:

I recently installed an IS7, Pentium 4 2.6, and 512 Meg PC3200 Memory. Now, the machine will no boot up. It gets as far as the Windows XP welcome screen, and for a split second, i can see a blue screen, but it goes by too fast, so I cannot see the error message. And it simply starts from scratch. I did not really touch any of the settings in the Bios.

Well, i thought it might be the memory, so i took it to a local computer shop, and they tried 2 other types of memory, and the same thing happened. He recommended I try to reinstall the operating system. He also said it may be the video card (Visiontek GeForce TI4200 128Meg), but i dont think that is the problem because it is ...

 

[Ron (21)]

"Robert Van Vugt" wrote:

Ron - I had exactly the same trouble with my IS7-G and what worked was to format and re-install OS on the HDD. I have not had a problem since. I do not know what actually causes this but suspect a problem with the MBR (master boot record) on the HDD. This was using a WD 60G 7200rpm HDD and PNY GF4 Ti4200 64M. Also can you possible verify that your Standby/Sleep LED is on all the time and blinks when in sleep mode? Seems it should be off all the time and only blink when asleep?

Robert

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Yep, I did that and it fixed it. Accoring to a local computer store, Windows 2000 and XP dont like major changes like a system board, etc. So, you can try to repair the version of xp, or just do a fresh install. I did a fresh install, and all works well. I also got a serial ATA hard drive. Man, does it fly now!

 

[Robert Van Vugt]

Ron - Good to hear ya got it going! Mine flies as well but does get hot under heavy load (64C). Have some new fans coming and a new heatsink. Could you check your standby/sleep LED? mine is on all the time and starts flashing/blinking in standby mode. On my old BE6 board the LED was off all the time and only came on/blinked while in standby.

Robert

"Ron" wrote:

"Robert Van Vugt" wrote:

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Ron - I had exactly the same trouble with my IS7-G and what worked was to format and re-install OS on the HDD. I have not had a problem since. I do not know what actually causes this but suspect a problem with the MBR (master boot record) on the HDD. This was using a WD 60G 7200rpm HDD and

PNY

GF4 Ti4200 64M. Also can you possible verify that your Standby/Sleep LED is on all the time and blinks when in sleep mode? Seems it should be off all the time and only blink when asleep?

Robert

"Ron" wrote:

I recently installed an IS7, Pentium 4 2.6, and 512 Meg PC3200 Memory. Now, the machine will no boot up. It gets as far as the Windows XP
welcome screen, and for a split second, i can see a blue screen, but ...