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- in the meantime you are just pushing the limits of what the system can work with. same goes for myself as well! Well Ritchie though it pains me to say it, I think you are correct, have just finished checking my ram sockets on the motherboard and guess what - one of the blighters is not working. A...

Just to let you know the bios chip arrived and I finally managed to install XP SP1 after tinkering around with some of the bios settings BUT (isn't there always a BUT) when XP initialises sometimes it freezes immediately and sometimes it goes for some time before it freezes. Oh, I also managed to up...

Hey Ritchie,

I don't want to make a habit of this! and I do seem to be pretty terrible at it anyway.

Thanks Ritche,

Already done that, anyway I also mentioned my problem with the esupport people and they emailed me back to say that they had put a bios rom in the post so once again its a matter of waiting.


Will keep you informed of progress or lack of as the case may be

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Brian

Thanks Ritche,

Already done that, anyway I also mentioned my problem with the esupport people and they emailed me back to say that they had put a bios rom in the post so once again its a matter of waiting.


Will keep you informed of progress or lack of as the case may be

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Brian

Hi all, Sadly the video card which did work OK did not help with Windows XP installation but well worth a try. Had a good look at the board before and all seemed clean and in order but I will give it another examination - thanks for the suggestion. The power supply, well it seems ok and I'm loathe t...

Waiting for video card to arrive so that I can try it but must admit to still being confused regarding the Bios situation. Ritchie: So both the previous BIOS and the new BIOS have a problem under XP, but maybe not the actual BIOS that is the problem. If you really wanted to check things out thorough...

Ritchie:

Thanks, I'll look into it.

Ritchie:

Clean install with format failed again

Have spotted a
3D Rage II+DVD PCI Video Card 4MB part no 109-38800-00

Is it worth trying to get that one providing its cheap of course!

Cheers

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Brian

Thanks Ritchie, 1) Done that already 2) Done that but can't remember if I reformatted after step one so will do again 3) Don't have another video card I'm afraid. 4) Point taken but surely as the old bios was dated Oct99 and the new bios was dated Nov99 aren't they going to be basically the same any...

MEMTEST found no erors E-support Bios Agent gives the following result Program: eSupport.com BIOS Detect v1.2 July 21, 2003 BIOS Date: 11/26/99 BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG BIOS ID: 11/26/1999-i440BX-W977-62400000C-EI OEM Sign-On: 6240 VER:2.0r04 WB1 Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX rev 3 Superio: W...

Thanks for all your help and patience NickS + everyone else. Bios update seemed to go pretty smoothly, shame can't be said for my Windows XP installation. Guess I'll have to try unpluging and reseating again as much as I can on the motherboard as per Ritchie's suggestions. I have changed a few bios ...

Code: A-Trend model ATC-6240 A-Trend model ATC6240V-01 Test to comply Test to comply With FCC standards With FCC standards For HOME or OFFICE USE For HOME or OFFICE USE (For BIOS V2.0 series, PCB R05) (For BIOS V3.0 series, PCB R06) Found the wording: The nearest (without the bracketed text) is the...

E-support Bios Agent gives the following result Program: eSupport.com BIOS Detect v1.2 July 21, 2003 BIOS Date: 10/25/99 BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG BIOS ID: 10/25/1999-i440BX-W977-62400000C-IY OEM Sign-On: 6240 VER:2.0r03 WB1 Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX rev 3 Superio: Winbond 977EF rev 4 foun...

Thanks for both your messages, not having any more luck though I'm afraid. Think I tried to run the bios agent before but it needs a windows enviroment and at the moment I don't have one The book that came with the machine describes the motherboard as ATC-6240M which presumably is were the "M" comes...