Hello. Recently, I bought a Dragon Ultra Platinum motherboard. The case I got with it has a 350 Watt PSU and the power supports it well. First, I would like to thank you in advance for any pointers or suggestions you have for me.
Ok, after assembling the thing, I installed Win2000pro. Everything went fine through the set-up and there was no sort of freezing or anything yet. Then, during driver installation, I would notice that after a few installations, the computer would hang on startup. So, I tried to uninstall drivers but nothing worked. After reinstalling 2000, I decided to not install drivers for the USB controller(2.0). The freezing happened, but not as frequently. So, a game and a few MP3's later, it went back to old times and froze. So, the third re-installment of the damn OS goes as so, I disabled the LAN, Audio, and RAID controllers through the BIOS, stuck in another sound card. The computer has not frozen yet but the motherboard monitor says that my 12v is running @12.6 and my AGP is sometimes reaching 1.6v. Upon loading the tutorial for Max Payne, Max's body was a spikey blob and the level around him was strewn with lines that weren't supposed to be there. This freaked the hell outta me so I quit out of the game, looked at the monitor and saw my AGP at 1.6v. A second later, it went down to1.5. My CPU is at about 50-60C during game play.
As I had mentioned before, I had to put in a new sound card and this really bothers me because I want the onboard sound to work because it has 6ch support. The first attempt I installed the drivers from the Soyo CD. The second, I got the newest off of the internet and installed. The sound was great but it froze my computer every time. If you know of compatibility problems with the following, please say so...Thanks!!!
I am running...
AMD XP 2200+
Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum
512mb PC2700 generic SAMSUNG RAM
GeForce4 Ti 4600
120GB combined drives
Windows2000
and some possible compatibility issues...
Two port firewire card
56k Zoom v92 modem
PCI 512 Sound Blaster
Sigma Box
Thank you so much for the help!!!!
Ok, after assembling the thing, I installed Win2000pro. Everything went fine through the set-up and there was no sort of freezing or anything yet. Then, during driver installation, I would notice that after a few installations, the computer would hang on startup. So, I tried to uninstall drivers but nothing worked. After reinstalling 2000, I decided to not install drivers for the USB controller(2.0). The freezing happened, but not as frequently. So, a game and a few MP3's later, it went back to old times and froze. So, the third re-installment of the damn OS goes as so, I disabled the LAN, Audio, and RAID controllers through the BIOS, stuck in another sound card. The computer has not frozen yet but the motherboard monitor says that my 12v is running @12.6 and my AGP is sometimes reaching 1.6v. Upon loading the tutorial for Max Payne, Max's body was a spikey blob and the level around him was strewn with lines that weren't supposed to be there. This freaked the hell outta me so I quit out of the game, looked at the monitor and saw my AGP at 1.6v. A second later, it went down to1.5. My CPU is at about 50-60C during game play.
As I had mentioned before, I had to put in a new sound card and this really bothers me because I want the onboard sound to work because it has 6ch support. The first attempt I installed the drivers from the Soyo CD. The second, I got the newest off of the internet and installed. The sound was great but it froze my computer every time. If you know of compatibility problems with the following, please say so...Thanks!!!
I am running...
AMD XP 2200+
Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum
512mb PC2700 generic SAMSUNG RAM
GeForce4 Ti 4600
120GB combined drives
Windows2000
and some possible compatibility issues...
Two port firewire card
56k Zoom v92 modem
PCI 512 Sound Blaster
Sigma Box
Thank you so much for the help!!!!
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