Hi all,

Just bought a retail Athlon XP 2000+ so that I could use my old Athlon XP 1600+ in a second system I'm building. Running an Abit KG-7 RAID mainboard, lots of toys, latest BIOS, very stable. If I put in the XP 2000+, everything goes to hell in a handbasket. Windows XP locks before fully booted, or gets blue STOP errors, every time I boot back up, CHKDSK finds crosslinked files and incorrect filesizes, etc. I'm running an Enermax 430w PS, so that should be okay. I set my RAM timings ultra-slow, scaled back my AGP settings to 2x with fast writes off, turned off caching the system and video BIOS, and turned of IDE block mode and prefetch, still nothing. I've tried both using my Alpha 6035 HS/Fan, and the retail AMD hs/fan (which I don't think is as beefy, but clips tighter), temperature doesn't seem to be getting out of hand. Even underclocked the bus to 100MHz to see if that solved the problem, and it does not. Cannot even boot in safe mode with the 2000+ in, put the 1600+ back in, all fine.
Anything I haven't tried? Possible that I actually got a CPU with problems (I know bad cpu's are rare)? Appreciate any help y'all could offer.

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AMD Athlon XP 2000+ aircooled
ASUS A7V8X-RAID mobo, Enet, SATA, 1394, USB2.0, all dat junk
512MB Crucial DDR
AOpen HX-08 case, Enermax 430wPS
80GB WD Spedial Edition 8MB cache
(all SCSI) Plextor 40x CD, Yamaha 8x4x24 CDRW, Seagate DDS2 DAT
Visiontek Geforce3 Ti200
Adaptec 2930U2 SCSI
ATI TV Wonder
SB Audigy MP3+

could be a bad cpu.. its possible.. what are you using to cool it????

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Asus A7V8X mobo w/AMD Athlon XP 2100+
Thermaltake Volcano 9
512mb PC2700 DDR (Samsung)
80Gb Maxtor ATA133 Harddrive
PNY Verto GeForce 4 Ti4200 64mb 295/604
48X12X48 CDRW
52X Sony CDRom
Antec 1035B Soho Server Tower
3DMARK 2001SE Score : 11286

Actually, I figured it out, it was kind of odd.

The Abit KG-7 RAID mainboard supports ECC memory, which I was using. One of the memory modules was failing, but the ECC was keeping it working reliably...turn off ECC, and everything goes wonky.

When I went to my ASUS A7V8X mainboard, being a KT400 chipset instead of AMD's 760, it didn't support ECC RAM, and so it ran my DDR modules, but with ECC off. Instant problems. I called Crucial and got the offending module replaced, and everything is now fine. Was truly a pain in the rear to figure out though.

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AMD Athlon XP 2000+ aircooled
ASUS A7V8X-RAID mobo, Enet, SATA, 1394, USB2.0, all dat junk
512MB Crucial DDR
AOpen HX-08 case, Enermax 430wPS
80GB WD Spedial Edition 8MB cache
(all SCSI) Plextor 40x CD, Yamaha 8x4x24 CDRW, Seagate DDS2 DAT
Visiontek Geforce3 Ti200
Adaptec 2930U2 SCSI
ATI TV Wonder
SB Audigy MP3+

Wierd, but glad you got the problem fixed!

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