In my experience with computers it sounds as though you have a bad M/B This seems to be pretty common among the asus M/B's and when you said tapping or pressing in certain places makes it worse or better pretty much confirms there is a broken print connection inside the board. You might want to try to find a older Soyo ATX board that that will accept the pc100 memory and AMD processor. Its strange that with a XP1800 you are only using pc100 memory? 69 280 SEL 120,000 Miles 72 350SL 108,000 Miles 2004 VW Passat 4 Motion 1999 Mazda Miata -----Original Message----- From: Barry Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 17:27:45 -0800 Subject: [MBZ] computer question no mb
Here's a question for those of you that know the intricate workings in computers. I have a computer that has a ASUS A7V-VE motherboard and an Athlon XP1800 + (AX1800DMT3C) CPU. It started having problems a while back and I just set it aside. I had a few moments today to play with it, so I set it up and turned it on. I think it has some motherboad problems because if I plug an IDE cable into the "master" connector it either won't recognize the drive is there, or will hang the system. I can take the same ribbon lead and drive plugged into the "slave" IDE connector and it works fine. At the same time the video seems to have some sort of intermittant connection as it flickers and rolls intermittantly. Sometimes pressing or tapping various places on the M/B seems to either correct the video or make it worse. My question is...is this just caused by a bad M/B or can it be a problem with the CPU? I can get a M/B from PC Liquidators that should work with the CPU for about $30 but that M/B takes DDR memory instead of the PC100 that the ASUS now uses, so I don't want to invest money in another M/B and memory to re-use the CPU if the CPU is faulty. It appears to me from the info that I have been able to dig up that the IDE functions are controlled by the chipset, but I wanted to make sure. I appreciate any info that you folks might have. Barry _______________________________________ http://www.striplin.net For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com
