Hello everyone, I have a strange problem, or well did have a problem just not sure why what I did fixed it. After I installed Windows XP w/ Service pack 2 I would have random BSOD, nothing I did fixed it until I up the FSB on my A64 system. This has fixed the problem, no blue screens for some time now. prior to this I had done nothing different that worked. Doe anyone know why this might have worked. On a side note the only thing installed at the time I done this was the chipset and video drivers. SYSTEM SPECS AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester running @ 2.2 Ghz FSB @ 220 DFI UT NF4 SLi-DR w/ nForce 6.66 drivers Corsair XMS PC3200C2 1GB 2x512mb XFX 6600 GT w/ 77.77 Forceware drivers WD 160GB SATA HDD ANTEC NEOPOWER 480w Power Supply
ok you need the latest chipset drivers from nvidia, 6.70 iirc, then when you have got it run it, and install everything but the nvidia firewall ( choose the nvidia firewall or windows not both) dont install the SW driver aka storage driver, this basically solved my bsod problems with the NF4 (asus a8n sli premium)
You don't want the nVidia firewall at all - it has issues with corrupting downloads, blocking everything, etc. It's possible that the RAM didn't like the lower speed... I've seen it happen before (albeit with cheaper stuff) and running it at its rated speed, DDR400, instead of 333 fixed it. That's only ever happened once - it is a very odd problem. It's more likely that the a timing was set in the BIOS that was causing instability at 200MHz, but moving up to 220 meant it was within the range of values that will run stably at that speed.