Problems with GA-6VTX Locking up

This motherboard is about 3 years old and Gigabyte says the warrenty was
only good for 1 year. With any hard disk and with any video card and any
set of memory from 128M to 512M while loading Windows (Win98, Win2000 Pro,
or WinXP Pro) the system just locks up when updating system settings and
the mouse freezes on the screen. Pushing reset or restarting gets the same
results -- any ideas? Bios is set to Load Fail-Safe Defaults...

Thanks,

Pat

I forgot to mention that in all cases the system will come up fine in Safe
Mode... I have also tried three different P!!!
processors and the same happens with all of them...

HELP..

Thanks,

Pat


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"Vincent Patterson" wrote in message
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This motherboard is about 3 years old and Gigabyte says the warrenty was
only good for 1 year. With any hard disk and with any video card and any
set of memory from 128M to 512M while loading Windows (Win98, Win2000 Pro,
or WinXP Pro) the system just locks up when updating system settings and
the mouse freezes on the screen. Pushing reset or restarting gets the
same
results -- any ideas? Bios is set to Load Fail-Safe Defaults...

Thanks,

Pat

I assume it was working ok before? Have you tried another CPU?


On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 22:54:36 -0500, "Vincent Patterson" wrote:

This motherboard is about 3 years old and Gigabyte says the warrenty was
only good for 1 year. With any hard disk and with any video card and any
set of memory from 128M to 512M while loading Windows (Win98, Win2000 Pro,
or WinXP Pro) the system just locks up when updating system settings and
the mouse freezes on the screen. Pushing reset or restarting gets the same
results -- any ideas? Bios is set to Load Fail-Safe Defaults...

Thanks,

Pat

Vincent Patterson wrote:
This motherboard is about 3 years old and Gigabyte says the warrenty
was only good for 1 year. With any hard disk and with any video card
and any set of memory from 128M to 512M while loading Windows (Win98,
Win2000 Pro, or WinXP Pro) the system just locks up when updating
system settings and the mouse freezes on the screen. Pushing reset
or restarting gets the same results -- any ideas? Bios is set to
Load Fail-Safe Defaults...

Thanks,

Pat

Look ALOT closer at the HDD.
My bet is that its starting to fail.

HTH

Jeff C.
aka
MaXiLeeCH





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I've tried 2 or 3 different disk drives and I even removed the VIA hard disk
controller from the BIOS and installed a RAID controller to see if that made
any difference and no such luck... Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Pat
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"MaXiLeeCH" reply.only.vi@newsgroup wrote in message
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Vincent Patterson wrote:
This motherboard is about 3 years old and Gigabyte says the warrenty
was only good for 1 year. With any hard disk and with any video card
and any set of memory from 128M to 512M while loading Windows (Win98,
Win2000 Pro, or WinXP Pro) the system just locks up when updating
system settings and the mouse freezes on the screen. Pushing reset
or restarting gets the same results -- any ideas? Bios is set to
Load Fail-Safe Defaults...

Thanks,

Pat

Look ALOT closer at the HDD.
My bet is that its starting to fail.

HTH

Jeff C.
aka
MaXiLeeCH





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At the age of the board there could be a serious problem since boards from that
time had the dreaded defective capacitor problem. Examine all capacitors on the
board for signs of bulging and leakage. Also, you might check out the power
supply.


On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 07:23:43 -0500, "Vincent Patterson" wrote:

I forgot to mention that in all cases the system will come up fine in Safe
Mode... I have also tried three different P!!!
processors and the same happens with all of them...

HELP..

Thanks,

Pat


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"Vincent Patterson" wrote in message
...
This motherboard is about 3 years old and Gigabyte says the warrenty was
only good for 1 year. With any hard disk and with any video card and any
set of memory from 128M to 512M while loading Windows (Win98, Win2000 Pro,
or WinXP Pro) the system just locks up when updating system settings and
the mouse freezes on the screen. Pushing reset or restarting gets the
same
results -- any ideas? Bios is set to Load Fail-Safe Defaults...

Thanks,

Pat

Since it runs in SAFE MODE you have a software problem. Reload 98 over it
self,
remove PCI cards and drivers one at a time, run SFC, look at the Device
Manager for warnings, etc.
HG

"Vincent Patterson" wrote in message
...
This motherboard is about 3 years old and Gigabyte says the warrenty was
only good for 1 year. With any hard disk and with any video card and any
set of memory from 128M to 512M while loading Windows (Win98, Win2000 Pro,
or WinXP Pro) the system just locks up when updating system settings and
the mouse freezes on the screen. Pushing reset or restarting gets the
same
results -- any ideas? Bios is set to Load Fail-Safe Defaults...

Thanks,

Pat