Sparks.nl Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 Hi all, Since some time I have 2 Abit AN7 boards. Great boards and I can mod the NB voltage and all... But the Windows XP installation and stability is a horror. While installing I had to make backups of every reboot in the installation process and to come to that point it costs me at least 10-30 tries. I tried several bios versions (modded or not modded), ATA and SATA drives. nothing help, any idea what the problem is? Note that I also have a dfi, Abit nf7-s (2) and an Epox board working fine with all hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Scott Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 Junk AN7's then. AN7 is more stable than any of your other boards usually. Burn a disk for your install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks.nl Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 They are rock solid when not going to Windows. As soon as Windows starts instability starts. I am thinking of a driver issue, a bios version or something else. Thinking of it, nothing will ever beat the stability of my 8rda6+ pro in my experience so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRIFF Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 (edited) Hello. Have you tried installing windows on the NF7 and then connecting HDD on the AN7? Have you tried several HDD channels? Have you tried out IDE-SATA converter? Edited January 30, 2020 by GRIFF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks.nl Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 (edited) Yes I tried all of these. Question: which bios version should be stable? Edited January 30, 2020 by Sparks.nl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Digg_de Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 You can try this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks.nl Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 (edited) I will try these again. Thanks the new an7 board was stable for a Short while, just not anymore. I think this could be bios related. I now use an Enduracel bios, 16de8cpc1t. I also tried hist other bios files. Edited February 1, 2020 by Sparks.nl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks.nl Posted February 1, 2020 Author Share Posted February 1, 2020 (edited) I just dioscovered that while using the Infrared (1T) bios I can actually boot to Windows while using auto settings foor cpu speed and voltages and memory settings on optimal. This leaves the CPU @600MHz and memory 266MHz. When I start WPrime is hangs after a few seconds. Bad caps? Edit: just lowering cpu or memory speed was not enough. Edited February 1, 2020 by Sparks.nl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Digg_de Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 Maybe something is too hot? Can't you see any bad Caps? I had to replace 5-6 Caps on my AN7.. but i didn't test it much with the bad Caps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks.nl Posted February 2, 2020 Author Share Posted February 2, 2020 (edited) It doesn't seem to be getting hot. I checked it in BIOS and with my fingers. The strange thing is that both AN7 boards have the exact same issue. On 1 board I replaced part of the CPU caps (all 6 6.3v 3300uF) and 1 for NB (6.3v 1800uF) a while ago. This does not make any difference. I am thinking of NB or memory caps. I am testing different speeds and voltages now. Edit: Just found out that my XP install for AN7 seems to hating newer versions of CPUz (1.78 and 1.90 hang after 5-15% loading). Version 1.51 works fine while running 800MHz. Edit 2: I can run the CPU @2400MHz with 18x 133MHz FSB WPrime stable. Memory is stable with 4:6 settings (running at 400MHz C2-2-2-5 1T) and CPU still @2400MHz (133MHz FSB). Edit 3: I allready replaced 6 caps, after replacing another 7 it gives a first ever boot on 11x200MHz. 1 cap came out with 1 leg still in the motherboard. After testing some more I can now boot 8x245MHz C2. Seems stable to me. Now for the other motherboard... Edited February 2, 2020 by Sparks.nl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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