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Thread ID: 31070	2003-03-11 00:58:00	PIII 450 like a 486, well almost...	Supertrooper (2510)	Press F1

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127229	2003-03-11 00:58:00	I've just finished setting up a PIII 450 on a Jetway J910AF motherboard . It's not exactly a speed machine as I thought it would be - ok I don't expect it to perform like a Ferrari but it's causing me a few headaches . Lately it's started rebooting by itself totally at random . I can be working away doing something and then black screen and it's rebooted . Can't seem to attribute it to anything specific . I've put 128Mb SDRAM in it, and have even tried it with 256 but no real difference . As it's booting into Windows it takes longer than I think it should, and quite often the boot up jingle is choppy and broken up . Whenever a program is loading the mouse is jerky across the screen, and is often like this at different times while the machine is apparently idle, although I feel there is something running in the background as often the jerky mouse syndrome will suddenly just disappear . I don't think it's a virus as I am running the latest ver of McAfee with all the updates . Hard disk is 40Gb, Win98SE etc . Does anyone have any experience with these motherboards? I have searched the Jetway site and there is no reference to a J910AF, only the 911 and 912 . I'm not overly worried as the M/B and CPU were donated to me, although now I think I am beginning to see why . Also at various times the screen gets black lines over it and the whole system just freezes, like something akin to faulty RAM . What sort of performance should I expect from a CPU of this calibre? On a good day when it is running ok it seems to be quite reasonable . If I start an MP3 playing though, then open another program, the music breaks up and it makes some awful sounds, which seems to me to be a resource issue, but where and how? Maybe I should just buy an abacus . . . might be easier . . .	Supertrooper (2510)
127230	2003-03-11 01:05:00	try reinstalling your graphics drivers , run adware and spybot try use fixit or norton utils etc to cleamn up the registry may be your power supply try disconnecting a cd rom etc	kiwibeat (304)
127231	2003-03-11 03:55:00	check the bios optoins and all jumbers. make sure it set for your cpu/ram/etc. have you installed the motherboard drivers? is DMA enabled for the hardrive? was windows installed fresh? what programs have you got running in the background ?	tweak'e (174)
127232	2003-03-11 04:46:00	128Mb to 256MB will make a load of difference, especially when playing MP3's and multi-tasking. The sound is jittery because you are most likely using onboard sound, and hence has to wait to have CPU time, I get this problem even on my 1800+ but no where near to the extent you would on a 450. Usually there is an option in your MP3 player to smooth playback. Booting into windows could be slower because it is searching for a network, disable this in network settings. Black screens and a reboot are usually caused by bad ram or video-card drivers, when bad ram is at cause you will usually get a BSOD and a memmory reference though. Is the the video onboard as well??? if so then thats more CPU and RAM being used up. you see your 486 was just a CPU and the perhepials ran themselves, but not these days, CPU's have more overheads.	roofus (483)
127233	2003-03-11 04:52:00	Im with roofus, keep the extra RAM in there, Disable the NIC if you're not using it, or assign it a static IP. Try driver updates as well for anything you can find, but display first... If none of this works, try getting hold of an old S3 Trio card or something like that for $10 off trademe and see if that makes the difference, Id be inclined to think that its your graphics... :-)	Chilling_Silence (9)
127234	2003-03-11 05:12:00	Hi On top of what the others have said/suggested does thboard have an SiS chipset. Had similar probs with a Jetway board, worked better with a graphics card installed and was very fussy where the ram was istalled and what type. Try swapping the ram around diff slots. Cheers Murray P	Murray P (44)
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