Need help with motherboard

nickm20 · Post by **nickm20** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:32 pm

I recently ordered a Foxconn 661fx7mj-Rs Sata Agp 8x Mboard with a 3.2 ghz p4 prescott cpu 800 mhz fsb because moneys tight it was a simple upgrade cause all my parts im using now work with it just wanted somethin faster with the option to upgrade the cpu later to a dual core. i recieved it a couple of days ago it come with the cpu and heatsink and fan already installed i was told it would be tested b4 it was shipped the testing was free. so i hooked it all up installed my parts into it which include a geforce fx 5200 agp 256 Mb card sound blaster live 5.1 2 IDE hard drives 1 80 gig maxtor diamondmax the other a 120 gig maxtor diamondmax for storage and a stick of 512 MB pny 3200 ram the board does support 3200. got it all hooked up started installing windows and i kept getting blue screens one of em said page fault in non paged area one said irq less or not equal so i changed a setting in the bios such as i turned hyperthreading off. Turning that off allowed the windows installation to go through but once windows started up and i started installing progs like yahoo messenger and internet explorer 7 it kept on blue screening. it says it created minidumps but i could never find them they were supposed to be in c windows minidumps but there was no such folder. so by now im pretty mad so i switched out memory hard drives switched to onboard video onboard sound tried everything possible but the blue screens would not stop so its back in the original box now but if i can get some suggestions i would hook it back up.. btw im using a 300 watt power supply and i tested it in another machine and its fine as well as my other parts cause im using them now on my old hp. the motherboard has a setting for superspeed and i kept that at 200 which was default im not sure if thats too high or what and maybe thats the cause but it looked like i couldnt go any lower.. anyway if anyone has any suggestions on what i could do b4 i go through sending it back and getting another one of the same thing thatd be great sorry this is so long but i wanted to include all details... Thanks a lot.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:44 pm

This is painful to read, paragraphs are very important.

So did you install windows or just slap the hard drive with window on it into the new PC?

If you were installing windows and got bluescreens try slowing the RAM timings down in the BIOS.

nickm20 · Post by **nickm20** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:05 pm

Installed a fresh copy of windows turned off hyperthread and i can get it to install sometimes but then once into windows it starts blue screening again the ram timings are on default the only setting im not sure of is the superspeed setting. Its set at 200 and down below it it says 200 mhz. i have tried a bios update but that didnt change anything either. so im wondering if the board or cpu is faulty or what it could be..

nightowl · Post by **nightowl** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:02 am

sounds like one of your ram moduals are bad. search on google and do a memory test.

nickm20 · Post by **nickm20** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:09 pm

Ive got the ram in this old hp and its working just fine no bluescreens. I even tried just 1 at a time and still got the same result and put it in the second slot still the same thing. when i put my hard drive in this old hp of mine i didnt have to reformat it from where it was on the other board so im running it right now no blue screens so maybe the mobo or cpu is bad im not sure anymore and the stupid company i got it from wants me to pay to ship it back cause they think its something of mine causing the issue...

nightowl · Post by **nightowl** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:56 pm

nickm20 wrote:Ive got the ram in this old hp and its working just fine no bluescreens. I even tried just 1 at a time and still got the same result and put it in the second slot still the same thing. when i put my hard drive in this old hp of mine i didnt have to reformat it from where it was on the other board so im running it right now no blue screens so maybe the mobo or cpu is bad im not sure anymore and the stupid company i got it from wants me to pay to ship it back cause they think its something of mine causing the issue...

Check to see the CPU temp in the BIOS. Shouldn't be over 50 degrees C. Also check that MOMBO for bad capacitors. The top of the capacitors should be all perfectly flat.

nickm20 · Post by **nickm20** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:12 pm

Caps are in good shape. the cpu temp is at 39 C