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| Thread ID: 47367 | 2004-07-24 02:57:00 | Identifying mobo for BIOS update | Jen C (20) | Press F1 |
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| 255006 | 2004-07-26 20:58:00 | While your in device manager go up to the View menu and make sure "Show hidden devices" is ticked. If it's the same as win 2k pro, you may get a whole bunch of none plug and play device drivers to fiddle with. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 255007 | 2004-07-26 22:41:00 | Ummmm, I’m a bit reluctant to post this Jen but does XP have a “SAFE” start up mode? As you already know, if it runs in this mode it would point toward drivers. Sorry if you’ve covered this and I’ve missed it. :8} Cheers Bob |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 255008 | 2004-07-26 23:50:00 | maybe this PC is just way below spec. Did you not say you play C&C generals. TNT is below spec (if even suporrted a5 all) for those games . More ram nd a better video card would do wonders I think. Can you borrow these 2 parts off of someone to try? | valiantnz (1709) | ||
| 255009 | 2004-07-26 23:52:00 | ^^^Sorry ^^^^wrong post in the wrong thread | valiantnz (1709) | ||
| 255010 | 2004-07-27 06:20:00 | > While your in device manager go up to the View menu > and make sure "Show hidden devices" is ticked. If > it's the same as win 2k pro, you may get a whole > bunch of none plug and play device drivers to fiddle > with. You are right about the heap of non-play 'n' play drivers listed there, but none of them looked "suspect" and I didn't want to start fiddling unnecessarily with them and cause more havoc :D |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 255011 | 2004-07-27 06:22:00 | > Ummmm, I’m a bit reluctant to post this Jen but does XP have a “SAFE” start up mode? > As you already know, if it runs in this mode it would point toward drivers. > Sorry if you’ve covered this and I’ve missed it. Nah, don't be sorry, it is a good suggestion I had tried safe mode whilst I was having a fiddle with the device manager and a few other things and it didn't lock up during that time, so I also tried safe mode with network support and it did locked up with all the networking drivers loaded. So I tried to uninstall and reinstall the network drivers incase one of these were behind the problem ... but no such luck Anyhow, to cut a long story short, I did manage to do a repair of the OS today and it looks OK except for System Restore gronking it due to a dll missing, which looks like this should be resolved by SP1 which I am currently installing now. Well just have to hope this repair might do the trick PS* on a slightly different note, anyone get a error message during the OS Repair about unregmp2.exe Entry Point Not Found relating to a MSDART.DLL? The whole Repair comes to a grinding halt at this point as clicking OK just results in the error window popping up again. A bit of googling later tells you to just keeping click OK whilst holding down the CRTL key until the message goes away - and about 50 clicks later it did, so the Repair continued onward ... strange. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 255012 | 2004-07-27 06:30:00 | > Go into computer management right click device > manager and select view resources by type and expand > the + there you will see which devices use what IO's > see if you can find the one with the illegal > IO addresses, I had a look here, but really couldn't see anything helpful. > As I mentioned before Hard lock ups are often > video card related (although maybe not in your case) > so to that end updating video card and > direct x drivers is a good idea I had already tried updating the nVidia drivers, but this didn't make a difference. I didn't try the directX ones as I preferred to leave them at the 8.1 version since I have used slightly older nVidia drivers 44.30 IIRC and this machine is not a gaming one and has a basic graphic card. > A couple of bios settings: make sure Plug &play aware > OS is enabled and also while your there > enable reset config data and resoures controlled by > auto, assuming your bios has these settings, usually > in PNP/PCI config. I had a look at these, and made changes where appropriate, but again, no luck. Thanks very much for all your help though. :) |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 255013 | 2004-07-27 06:34:00 | I would update those video drivers a bit more to a higher version. I have one of those TNT2s and they can handle the newest drivers, I've tried. Did you try a fresh install of the OS? That would be a last resort too. If you are still into getting a new BIOS, then it is definitely a Chaintech MB. So just surf the Chaintech site and match it up to the model number. You'll probably find that the 7AIV has a different FSB speed to the 7AIA etc and that will help you identify which one you have. I used to use a Chaintech 7AIA5/E but I think it died due to leaking capacitors. I can always take a photo of it and you can compare ;) |
kiki (762) | ||
| 255014 | 2004-07-27 08:33:00 | > I would update those video drivers a bit more to a > higher version . I have one of those TNT2s and they > can handle the newest drivers, I've tried . They have been updated from the original drivers it came with which should of been enough to sort out a corrupted driver . > Did you > try a fresh install of the OS? That would be a last > resort too . Well I just finished a repair of the OS, added SP1 plus the rest of the updates . . . but the problem remains . > If you are still into getting a new BIOS, then it is > definitely a Chaintech MB . I am leaving the BIOS alone now, I don't want to render their OS recovery disk useless . Well, after the repair of the OS didn't fix it, I am admitting defeat now and will suggest they take it to a repair shop . Just need to find a good repair shop in Auckland to recommend to them . :) |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 255015 | 2004-07-27 10:07:00 | Must be a Dick Smith or Harvey Norman nearby....... | metla (154) | ||
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