Praedor,
You might try taking out the sound card, and seeing if you can resolve the 
problems. I'm still thinking the power supply is a possible culprit. 

Which bios have you flashed to? 

Robert


On Wednesday 11 June 2003 17:29, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 00:15, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
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> > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 07:06 pm, John McQuillen wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 03:18, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > > Well, all is well with the system now but I will still need a new
> > > > mobo to take advantage of the CPU.  I have finally figured out the
> > > > trick to "overclocking" the system and have found that this board
> > > > will simply not do an FSB of 133 Mhz.  Setting the frequency to 133
> > > > prevents the computer from even attempting to post.  I cannot even
> > > > get to bios to reset it.  I have to unplug the system and pull the
> > > > bios battery to reset the bios to defaults so I can boot up again.  I
> > > > have since successfully bumped the FSB up to a mere 110 Mhz.  I will
> > > > try bumping it up again and again until it fails and just go below
> > > > that.
> > > >
> > > > This board wont even handle what the MSI sites say it will.  It is
> > > > supposedly capable of using up to an XP 2600+ which requires an FSB
> > > > higher than this thing can actually handle.
> > >
> > > I haven't been following this thread closely, but are you sure that you
> > > haven't got an old sound card, network card, or something else that is
> > > not handling the 133MHz bus speed?
> > >
> > > Just guessing, as I have had a similar problem in the past with older
> > > cards.
> >
> > A soundcard or network card would prevent even getting up to bios?
>
> I can see how it could happen... Since most BIOS's I've worked with do,
> do hardware detecting and IRQ setting (even though the OS then ignores
> all this.) As well as card/hardware initialization.  I have ages ago had
> a sound card that would prevent any box it was inserted into from
> booting.
>
> James
>
> >  My
> > soundcard is a SB16 and the network card is a 3com 3C900B-TPO [Etherlink
> > XL TPO].
> >
> > praedor
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