Hello everybody
I have a Gigabyte K8N-sli with a amd 64 +3000 and 1go ram (corsair) and a ATI Radeon X800 on it.
This system had some strange temporary freeze when in use, so I decide to reformat and reinstall XP on it.
everything went well until I ended updating XP (all the KBs form windows udpate) and updated frivers from Gigabyte web site.
since then i have the following
- windows boot screen freeze (just after the leds from the keyboard flashes), and nothing else happen
- in safe mode I can go in windows, no trouble
- cannot access the bios setup. black screen.
What I've done
- test another PSU : not solved
- put new thermal paste on CPU : no changes
- changed video card (a Nvidia Quatro) : can access the bios, windows still freeze at boot time
- remove, swapped memory modules : no changes
so it seems to me that it can be
- hardware : motherboard or CPU
- software : a driver in windows is wrong and prevent the system to load in normal mode, but do not affect the safe mode (is one of the drivers for nf4 making problems?)
what's makes me confuse is the case of the bios setup display. it works with the Nvidia, but not the ATI, but both cards are working in safe mode.
There no visible caps damaged on the board (from far inspection)
the Northbridge is extremly hot (cannot touch the heatsink), maybe I have to put there some thermal paste.
Any advice is welcome.
Thanks
P
I have a Gigabyte K8N-sli with a amd 64 +3000 and 1go ram (corsair) and a ATI Radeon X800 on it.
This system had some strange temporary freeze when in use, so I decide to reformat and reinstall XP on it.
everything went well until I ended updating XP (all the KBs form windows udpate) and updated frivers from Gigabyte web site.
since then i have the following
- windows boot screen freeze (just after the leds from the keyboard flashes), and nothing else happen
- in safe mode I can go in windows, no trouble
- cannot access the bios setup. black screen.
What I've done
- test another PSU : not solved
- put new thermal paste on CPU : no changes
- changed video card (a Nvidia Quatro) : can access the bios, windows still freeze at boot time
- remove, swapped memory modules : no changes
so it seems to me that it can be
- hardware : motherboard or CPU
- software : a driver in windows is wrong and prevent the system to load in normal mode, but do not affect the safe mode (is one of the drivers for nf4 making problems?)
what's makes me confuse is the case of the bios setup display. it works with the Nvidia, but not the ATI, but both cards are working in safe mode.
There no visible caps damaged on the board (from far inspection)
the Northbridge is extremly hot (cannot touch the heatsink), maybe I have to put there some thermal paste.
Any advice is welcome.
Thanks
P
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