FogEater

Hi, I have a little overclocking problem. My system is as follows: KT7A-Raid, Geforce3, 392mb ram, Athlon 1.33ghz. Before installing XP I used to run Millenium. In the motherboard Bios I had setup the CPU as 1.4ghz in the Softmenu. Nothing else, I didn't modify the vcore etc... Everything was just fine: my cpu run at 1.4ghz, no crash, no blue screen. Now I have installed XP and am very satisfied with it. The only problem is that the small overclock from 1.33 to 1.4 doesn't work anymore. As soon as the boot process is about to finish, I get a blue screen of death. Anf, if the boot process ends without problems, I get the same error message when launching Quake III. Now, is there any slution to this? Can I overclock my CPU under XP exactly as I did under Millenium? Thanks

I have two 40gb hard drives connected to the raid controller. I have the HD split into 9 partitions (about 10gb each). They're all FAT32, I'll probably switch to NTFS soon. C:\ D:\ E:\ F:\ G:\ H:\ I:\ J:\ K:\ Everything works just fine.

Poll (well sort of Where do you plug your mouse? USB or PS/2 port? Which one is better for gaming?

I only play Quake3. It runs fine under XP, the only problem is that I've lost about 12 FPS when running timedemo.

I get the same error message when the CPU is heavily overclocked. If I either downclock the CPU or raise the vcore everything runs just fine. If you have overclocked the CPU, you may want to try to raise the vcore, that should fix your problem.

Are you kidding? Netscape 6.1 installs and works just fine under XP I have both IE and Netscape installed since some sites may not support them both.

Perhaps I'm lucky, but Roger Wilko works just fine for me, under XP

Well I get a 11 fps improvement when running Quake III timedemo, that's the difference between 1.33 and 1.4ghz However, I've tried to set the vcore at 1.80 but the PC hangs and I don't feel like raising it even more. Perhaps I'd better foget about this overclock

Quote: Realistically speaking, how much improvement do you expect from a 1.33@1.4 GHz??? Realistically speaking, I know it's enough

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A friend of mine just installed XP on a computer with Geforce3 and an Asus motherboard. In his case everything went ok. It seems the problem occurs with Geforce cards and Abit (at least the KT7A) motherboards. Well, back to installing the rest of the software

YES! YES! I did it! Now setup works just fine The solution was replacing the Geforce3 with another video board (a slow Kyro AGP in my case) and everything went ok! Since the other guy experienced the very same problem with a KT7A motherboard and a Geforce card (Geforce2 in that case) I may argue that XP cannot install on a KT7A plus Geforce (either 2 or 3) based system. This could be an interesting information to share as this hardware is (or is becoming) very popular. Perhaps pick up this info and put it in a FAQ or something like that. Thank you very much for your help, really

Ok, now I'll tell you what happened. Gee, this story is driving me crazy. I disconnected EVERYTHING and left the PC with the video board and ONE hard drive connected to IDE1 only. No Raid controller, just the usual IDE port. I had nothing but the Abit KT7A-Raid (with up to date Bios 3R), the Asus Geforce3 video board, one EIDE hard drive (Quantum AS 40gb) connected to the first IDE port, a Pioneer CD-Rom, mouse and keyboard. No component was overclocked and I took my Bios settings back to default. The CD-Rom driver is proven to read that particular brand of disks and the CD works just fine on a different PC. Well, believe it or not, XP didn't install even on this minimal configuration, so your workaround doesn't work for me Frankly I'm desperate, I've tried every possible solution with no luck. At this point I think I should throw the XP CD-Rom away and forget about it.

Quote: Same here... but, I have a workaround! I have to install it to a single Western Digital ATA-100 7200 rpm 2mb buffered 40gb boot disk on the 'normal/ordinary' EIDE channel one (non-RAID ones) in order to install it! * Even IF I put in the HighPoint 370 RAID FirmWare drivers at the install F6 screen for 3rd party drivers! 2k needs that diskette, XP has support for it and STILL will not install to those RAID striped disks here... complaining about "unrecognized filesystems" on them! (Inside 2k later, I install the Highpoint controller & RCM drivers, & in Disk Manager import any "dynamic" disks (stripes) I have setup!) Make me understand, are you saying that in order to install XP on my machine I should move the hard drive connector to the primary IDE port, then once setup is over move it back to the Raid controller? Can you please provide as many details as you can? I'm not very experienced in this field. Thank you

I have the very same problem, my PC hangs when it shows "setup is starting windows". My config is KT7A-Raid (Raid 0) Athlon 1.33ghz, Asus Geforce3, SoundBlaster Live, internal PCI ADSL modem (Itex chipset). The above configuration works just fine on Windows Millenium but XP won't even start installation. Can anybody help?

Hi, I have the very same problem, but I think that diver won't work for me. I have an Abit KT7A-Raid with two drives on RAID-0. The Raid controller is a HighPoint HPT370. Well it seems I can't actually install XP on my machine. Setup locks everything up when it shows 'setup is starting windows'. I think the problem sits in the Raid controller but am clueless at present. I've been trying whatever my mind suggested for days and days with no luck. Can anybody help?