This is a cry for help with a rather old motherboard: An asus A8V socket 939 AGP board. These things have been a nightmare to me when I first bought one for a mate, issues with the bios not supporting winchester cores and 2 RMA's later finally got one that worked.
I say worked, even now it's still throwing a fit. Recently replaced it with an I7 due to the lockups I'd have with it and weird behaviour. Thought I'd give it another shot and use it as a HTPC but I can't get it to work at all.
Upon trying to install xp, needing sata drivers on a floppy drive I'd finally got around to the second stage of installation when I got my first BSOD. I've had 3-4 different codes now after changing components, rejecting the ram, rejecting the graphics card, issues with the harddisk and finally it's throwing up errors saying bios checksum bad requiring a flashed bios. Flash completes, restart pc, clear cmos, reset bios settings, resume installing XP, BSOD and bios is bad again. All this time I thought it was just bad ram (ballistix has a bad rep apparently) but I can't help thinking it's the motherboard again as the ram works fine in other systems.
Is there a solution to this or should I just hunt for a new agp 939 board, or scrap the lot (sell off x800xt, 2gb ddr1, 3800+x2) and buy a cheap c2d bundle?
I say worked, even now it's still throwing a fit. Recently replaced it with an I7 due to the lockups I'd have with it and weird behaviour. Thought I'd give it another shot and use it as a HTPC but I can't get it to work at all.
Upon trying to install xp, needing sata drivers on a floppy drive I'd finally got around to the second stage of installation when I got my first BSOD. I've had 3-4 different codes now after changing components, rejecting the ram, rejecting the graphics card, issues with the harddisk and finally it's throwing up errors saying bios checksum bad requiring a flashed bios. Flash completes, restart pc, clear cmos, reset bios settings, resume installing XP, BSOD and bios is bad again. All this time I thought it was just bad ram (ballistix has a bad rep apparently) but I can't help thinking it's the motherboard again as the ram works fine in other systems.
Is there a solution to this or should I just hunt for a new agp 939 board, or scrap the lot (sell off x800xt, 2gb ddr1, 3800+x2) and buy a cheap c2d bundle?