Lock Ups... :(

[Jubeins]

Don't you hate being the "computer guy" in the group that everyone looks to to fix thier computer. We'll My friend got a hardware upgrade about a week ago (512MB Crucial Ram, Athlon 1.2, Abit KT7A). We'll the problem is the computer seems to lock up quite often. So i took all the cards out and pretty much narrowed it down to his Netgear FA311 Nic as it only locks up when doing internet related stuff (i.e. going to webpages and in irc). Soooo i switched out the NIC with a Realtek, intsalled the drivers and no connection....i tried specifieing the IP and SN Mask and right when i click on IE and tried to go to a page it locked. I checked IRQ's and windows reports no conflicts. He is running Windows 2000 btw. Does anyone have any advice?? Even his mom is pressuring me to get it fixed...grrr. Its like I'm at work or something.

 

[Darkluck]

lol...sorry to laugh at your plight, but that was funny about the work thing.

Try updating to the latest bios rev (3R) see website for more info, but it sounds like the same problem your friend is having.

If that doesn't work, I'd say read through the manual and find out which PCI slots share which IRQs and shuffle some cards around so no or few IRQs are conflicting. I know win2k handles its IRQs very strangely, but sometimes this works.

 

[Jubeins]

I updated the BIOS. But i'll try to move the PCI card around like you said...Thx

 

[Darkluck]

what sound card does he have?

have you tried upgrading to sp2?

 

[WarCon]

This may sound funny, but I have the same mobo and I had similar lockups when I had AGP 4x enabled. I have no idea why it would lock up where it did, but a trigger always seemed to be my scroll wheel on my mouse.

If it is on, try turning it off. You might also play with the pci timing stuff in bios. Try turning off some of the optimizations.