Biostar M7NCG400 - apps freeze

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On a newly built system-- Biostar M7NCG400 board, XP2100+ cpu, 512m
ram, Siig ATA133 controller card, USB2/Firewire card, PC-Chips TV
tuner card, 3 Western Digital hard drives, CD drive, CDRW, floppy ---

Been having gobs of trouble with this board from the start, before
adding all the cards etc. --

First couldn't get it to POST;
Then could POST, but only when the CPU was read by the BIOS as
XP1500+;
Trouble installing Win2000, finally got it to take, but the system
crashed after installing Office2000.

No apparent BIOS updates from Biostar, except for something which
tinkers with TV-Out

Tore it apart, rebuilt from scratch.

Now it POSTs, took W2K, took O2K, but is frequently freezing when
installing other apps, and frequently freezes when running apps.

Most of the reviews on Newegg bill this as an easy board to set up and
run. The few who disagree call it a lemon and send it back.

I normally go on the assumption that I'm doing something wrong or
missing something when stuff like this happens (as opposed to blaming
it on the hardware, which in my advanced-novice experience has never
been at fault).

I'm stumped on all this. What am I missing?
 
limner said:
On a newly built system-- Biostar M7NCG400 board, XP2100+ cpu, 512m
ram, Siig ATA133 controller card, USB2/Firewire card, PC-Chips TV
tuner card, 3 Western Digital hard drives, CD drive, CDRW, floppy ---
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Now it POSTs, took W2K, took O2K, but is frequently freezing when
installing other apps, and frequently freezes when running apps.
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I'm stumped on all this. What am I missing?
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You didn't mention the size or brand of your power supply.

I notice that your system hangs when there is a big load on your drives.
 
You didn't mention the size or brand of your power supply.

I notice that your system hangs when there is a big load on your drives.
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Power supply is a Codogen 450 watt
 
limner said:
On a newly built system-- Biostar M7NCG400 board, XP2100+ cpu, 512m
ram, Siig ATA133 controller card, USB2/Firewire card, PC-Chips TV
tuner card, 3 Western Digital hard drives, CD drive, CDRW, floppy ---

Been having gobs of trouble with this board from the start, before
adding all the cards etc. --

First couldn't get it to POST;
Then could POST, but only when the CPU was read by the BIOS as
XP1500+;
Click to expand...

You didn't mention your brand and speed of RAM. I guess you don't think
that might matter. In a perfect world it wouldn't.

Read all the newegg reviews of the M7NCD* boards to get a clue.

Case, PSU, mobo, RAM, or CPU, or an unhappy relationship between two or
more of these.

Do what testing you can, then RMA the board.
 
On a newly built system-- Biostar M7NCG400 board, XP2100+ cpu, 512m
ram, Siig ATA133 controller card, USB2/Firewire card, PC-Chips TV
tuner card, 3 Western Digital hard drives, CD drive, CDRW, floppy ---
Click to expand...

I've gotten 5 of these. One was DOA but the others and the replacement
run great. All have 2500+ @ 3200+. All use different makes of generic
PC3200 RAM and 200W emachine PSU. I only use Win98SE though. Another
will arrive on Thursday.
 
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