problems with 1ghz 800mhz and 750mhz athlon scktA cpu's
Using the MSI K7T pro motherboard (approved by amd) using kingston pc 133mhz ram (approved by crucial.com for athlon&msi boards) using fotron source 300w atx powersaupplies(amd approved), and using a approved cpu cooler, we are haveing a hell of a time building a stable pc.
We either get errors on installing win98 se oem, or if we manage to get it installed we get lockups when accessing more than 62mb of ram.. we have tried several brands of ram, (some pc100 some pc133) and AMI diagnostics reports errors in walking bit tests. with all (5 kinds tried sofar)
we have tried several motherboards (flashed & unflashed bios's), we have tried 750mhz athlon, 800mhz athlon, and 1000mhz athlon(2 of them) we have tried several powersupplies, several hard drives, both pci and agp video cards, we have tried ASUS A7V motherboards,
These machines work flawlessly when we install a duron 600mhz cpu in them. but take it out and put in the athlon, blammo..
we have talked to AVUS our supplier, for tech support, and stumped them.
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