Athlon 64 3200+ K8T Neo Problems - Please help!
Hi,
I just cant figure out what the heck is going on with the PC I just put together. Ive got a Athlon 64 3200+ processor in a K8T Neo motherboard and everytime I get to the windows boot screen (the one with safe mode etc.) I pick an option (doesnt matter which, the same thing happens) and the computer reboots only to do the same thing again. I saw a similar post that suggested lowering the Mhz from 200 to 190. I did that and it made no difference. Same deal. I dont know if the problem is with the CPU, the motherboard, the hard drive or me. I need help asap as I run a home business on this computer. Please help!
Mike
I just cant figure out what the heck is going on with the PC I just put together. Ive got a Athlon 64 3200+ processor in a K8T Neo motherboard and everytime I get to the windows boot screen (the one with safe mode etc.) I pick an option (doesnt matter which, the same thing happens) and the computer reboots only to do the same thing again. I saw a similar post that suggested lowering the Mhz from 200 to 190. I did that and it made no difference. Same deal. I dont know if the problem is with the CPU, the motherboard, the hard drive or me. I need help asap as I run a home business on this computer. Please help!
Mike
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What kind of memory are you running in it BTW?
Thanks for the fast reply. I have heard the same thing. I have a 512 stick of 2700 333 ram in there too test the other hardware while im waiting for a gigabyte of kingston 3200 400 to come in the mail. The ram is recognized and I dont get any errors, everything seems ok until i get to the safemode screen and back i go to the beginning again. Some more details: 350 watt enermax power supply, 200gb hard drive master, 20gb slave, DVD-R, Audigy, Gforce 3 500i. Ive never been this stumped before...
They had to use 2 sticks of 256MB ram to get it to even post except for the Buffalo as I noted.
Man, I didnt know it was that bad. I'd be relieved if it was the RAM, so long as its not the CPU. Im no novice, but I dont know what post means. Ive never had to have another place work on my computer, but it may come to that this time. I think ill probably subject myself to the damn thing restarting a few more times before i give in. Im running out of things to check and settings to check though:-P My CPU temp is around 89-100 according to the bios. Is this normal?
Ah, right on. Well, my machine does post. It goes through all the motions and recognizes all the hardware. It says the bios isnt installed for SATA, which isnt a problem (I dont think) because Im not using and SATA Hard Drives, but other than that everything seems in order until DUM DUM DUUUM I click on the start windows normally, safe, whatever and back to square one I go. Anyone have any other ideas?
Looks like a partially disabled SATA setup for starters. That would trigger a spontaneous reboot right after post.... So, question, does BIOS say it updated the ESCD successfully, then go to boot Widnwos and then you get a spontaneous reboot??? If Yes, SATA is probably in boot order, possibly before IDE primary master. That would do this, no SATA drives attached, PLUS no SATA BIOS present to main BIOS as it is disabled....
Know what you mean about you gotta have the business box up, I had one here that was giving me intermittent fits also until I finally figured out why it rebooted every three days by itself. In your case, is not booting to Windows but might be posting completely if the ESCD update succes line shows-- cuz after that the booting is from storage media and should be into Windows. Silly thing is trying to boot from a drive that is not physically there, sounds like.... And, with SATA BIOS off it is not finding any SATA drives, but it is looking for same as boot-first priority I bet.... Funniest thing, it is finding windows if you get a boot menu.... Windows PROBABLY is trying to redirect to a non-existant SATA drive to boot per BIOS boot order, but if this is not a CD-ROM boot then you are getting a storage media boot and then Windows is giving up on setting up the storage subsystem. IF this is a CD-ROM boot, take the dang CD out, restart, see if the thing goes into Windows (yeah, I have a few of those 2 AM -- "Why the **** isn't it booting from HD, oh, Duh, its booting from CD!" T-Shirts also (the VR kind)).
One or the other is most probable scenario.... Yes, struggled with this with a P4 SATA plus IDE RAID capable board also.... Thing hkept wanting to boot SATa first, IDE RAID second, plain old IDE last, then tried for a CSA\NIC boot, never got to CD.... In yhour case, setup will be different, idea is same, boot order is overruling things and confusing Windows.
John D.
i took it home installed everything loaded windows drivers ect ect all good. i started getting bsod's after a while from my video card like error stop and a memmory address and other various probs but this is what i found out. the bios defaults where not default for my computer. i had to set the cpu to memory to 1/1 in bios(not auto) for it to work. im not a guru it took me 3 days and alot of frustration to figure out. hope this helps...
moving ram into seperate slots might make it go from 400mhz to 200mhz, which is what i did in bios by setting it 1/1btw on a asus k8vsedx
you might be seeing corruption on your drive as i had the same things work and not work depending on how it felt till i set the memory right, formatted reinstalled windows drivers ect ect.
I ditched my asus a8v deluxe rev 1 because it wouldnt post with my corsair xms
I disagree. Most likely it's a weak PSU issue. My Abit KV8 Pro (S754) and AV8 (S939), both K8T800 Pro mobos, worked just fine with Corsair XMS PC3500, Kingston HyperX PC4000, HyperX PC3500 and Patriot PC3200 XBL (TCCD). Although only with the Patriot ram would either board OC past 220mhz. (Up to 270mhz)
Both have worked flawlessly with two sticks of 512mb Kingston value ram or two sticks of the cheap Geil value ram. Both run under $100 for a GB of pc3200 DDR.
It might be picky with SOME ram but lots of 512mb x 2 works in this board.
Tex
I have a K8T Neo and m using a athlon 64 3000+, the problem i m facing is that once i install my graphics card drivers, my comp freezes up every time there is a visual strain of any sort. Eg. right clicking a folder.
Can someone help me!! i m a beginner with computers.
If they are, try using the windows Hardware Qualified drivers. But prior to doing that, we will need to get you back up and running. Assuming that this video card had a previous set of good working drivers, we will need to reboot into safemode and revert back to your old drivers. The quickest and probably safest way enter the device manager and select the video card under display adapters. Right click and select properties. Now select driver and click on the option for rollback driver. If it stops you by telling you that there is no backup, select no to the troubleshooter and select uninstall. After performing this procedure, you should look into using the most up to date driver that is WHQ.
Once you load that driver, reboot and tell us what happens. Additionally and completely off-topic, please try creating your own thread in the future. It woudl have been better had you added this under the graphics forum.
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Also check your Power Supply (PSU). If it supplies less than 20amps on the 12v rail, it might a/the source of your problems also.
And of course grab the latest Video driver from ATI - (.Net required) and/or Nvidia
The PSU ratings should be on a sticker on the side or bottom of the PSU