Help, my P4P800 now hangs Memtest86... otherwise a good stable sucessful upgrade.

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William Cheng @HSE

Hi all,

I have sucessfully upgraded my old system with a P4P800-D, new Pentium4 2.4c
CPU, and two sticks of 512Mb Hynix DDR400 Dimms (as recommend on Asus site).
WinXP is very stable with all sorts of peripherals. When I first just put
in the bare system with only a video card, I ran Memtest86 overnight, and
all went well - no errors. Then I proceed to install all my other PCI
cards, drives and peripherals and performed a repair install on WindowsXP.
Amazingly, all went well and is running quite stable (knock on wood).
However, I thought I would re-run Memtest now - and it hangs performing the
first series of test. Would my other peripherals interfere with memtest?
Why does it just freeze or hang - doesn't show up any errors - I have to
reboot to exit. But WindowsXP runs fine and stable - what's up?

All in all another successful story in the P4P800 saga... Everything worked
as claimed right out of the box. I am running it off the old Enermax 365VE
power supply that I've had for years and it seems fine (except for this
small memtest clitch which doesn't seem to affect my day to day computing).

Thanks,
William

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WindowsXP Professional (SP-1a)
Asus P4P800-D (1007 Bios)
Intel Pentium4 2.4c HT 800Mhz
2x Hynix 512Mb DDR400 Dimms
WD 120Gb JB (Pri master)
Quantum 32Mb (Pri slave)
Lite-ON 52x24x52 (Sec master)
Pioneer A05s DVD (Sec slave)
Quantum 6.4Gb (VIA Pri master)
ATI Radeon 9000Pro 64Mb 4xAGP
ATI TV Wonder
Adaptec AHA-2930U
IBM 4.2Gb SCSI HDD
Iomega Zip100
SyQuest 5200c
Soundblaster Live! MP3+
 
"William Cheng said:
Hi all,

I have sucessfully upgraded my old system with a P4P800-D, new Pentium4 2.4c
CPU, and two sticks of 512Mb Hynix DDR400 Dimms (as recommend on Asus site).
WinXP is very stable with all sorts of peripherals. When I first just put
in the bare system with only a video card, I ran Memtest86 overnight, and
all went well - no errors. Then I proceed to install all my other PCI
cards, drives and peripherals and performed a repair install on WindowsXP.
Amazingly, all went well and is running quite stable (knock on wood).
However, I thought I would re-run Memtest now - and it hangs performing the
first series of test. Would my other peripherals interfere with memtest?
Why does it just freeze or hang - doesn't show up any errors - I have to
reboot to exit. But WindowsXP runs fine and stable - what's up?

All in all another successful story in the P4P800 saga... Everything worked
as claimed right out of the box. I am running it off the old Enermax 365VE
power supply that I've had for years and it seems fine (except for this
small memtest clitch which doesn't seem to affect my day to day computing).

Thanks,
William

-----
WindowsXP Professional (SP-1a)
Asus P4P800-D (1007 Bios)
Intel Pentium4 2.4c HT 800Mhz
2x Hynix 512Mb DDR400 Dimms
WD 120Gb JB (Pri master)
Quantum 32Mb (Pri slave)
Lite-ON 52x24x52 (Sec master)
Pioneer A05s DVD (Sec slave)
Quantum 6.4Gb (VIA Pri master)
ATI Radeon 9000Pro 64Mb 4xAGP
ATI TV Wonder
Adaptec AHA-2930U
IBM 4.2Gb SCSI HDD
Iomega Zip100
SyQuest 5200c
Soundblaster Live! MP3+
Click to expand...

There were some posts a while ago, about the interaction of the USB Legacy
setting in the BIOS, and the correct operation of memtest86.

http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

So try disabling USB Legacy support in the BIOS, while you are running
memtest86.

HTH,
Paul
 
This is fixed in the 1008.004 BIOS (Beta). In the meantime, disable
support for legacy USB devices when you want to run Memtest, as
Paul indicated.
 
There were some posts a while ago, about the interaction of the USB Legacy
thanks, this helped me (too)
Click to expand...
This helps with the A7V8X too (or it seemed to help with mine).
 
Whats the difference between memtest 1.3 or whatever and memtest-86 DOS?
Is one preferable over the other?
I have memtest 1.3, which is a simple program that runs test on memory.
What does DOS memtest-86 do that is different?

Thanks
 
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