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From: Anna Daptor on 7 Oct 2005 10:54
Just got back from looking at a friends new PC - and I'm a bit lost as to
what might be the issue.



Its a Semperon 2600+ CPU on a Asus K8-VMX (VIA K8M800) motherboard



Windows XP SP2 was installed for them, but it wouldn't start up correctly
and rebooted halfway through startup - startup in Safe mode was fine
however.



After fiddling about for a while (including reseting BIOS) we decided to
reinstall Windows from scratch - that all went fine. Then the problems
started...



Trying to install the graphic drivers get up to 99% of the copying process
then the PC blue screens with a STOP 7f at 0,0,0,0 error. This is a crash
that seems to occur *before* the graphic drivers are actually installed and
activated.... but having not actualy seen if a reboot is needed for these
drivers in XP it might be occuring just as the drivers are actually
initialised...

Other drivers have installed fine - sound, modem, VIA 4-in-1 drivers. etc.



So, anyone have any suggestions? Without the graphic drivers installed the
system seems to work fine and there's no obvious hardware issues like memory
or so on.




From: Paul on 7 Oct 2005 17:50
In article <Y_v1f.3700$qR5.3361(a)newsfe5-gui.ntli.net>, "Anna Daptor"
<Anna(a)radio.active.co.uk> wrote:

> Just got back from looking at a friends new PC - and I'm a bit lost as to
> what might be the issue.
>
>
>
> Its a Semperon 2600+ CPU on a Asus K8-VMX (VIA K8M800) motherboard
>
>
>
> Windows XP SP2 was installed for them, but it wouldn't start up correctly
> and rebooted halfway through startup - startup in Safe mode was fine
> however.
>
>
>
> After fiddling about for a while (including reseting BIOS) we decided to
> reinstall Windows from scratch - that all went fine. Then the problems
> started...
>
>
>
> Trying to install the graphic drivers get up to 99% of the copying process
> then the PC blue screens with a STOP 7f at 0,0,0,0 error. This is a crash
> that seems to occur *before* the graphic drivers are actually installed and
> activated.... but having not actualy seen if a reboot is needed for these
> drivers in XP it might be occuring just as the drivers are actually
> initialised...
>
> Other drivers have installed fine - sound, modem, VIA 4-in-1 drivers. etc.
>
>
>
> So, anyone have any suggestions? Without the graphic drivers installed the
> system seems to work fine and there's no obvious hardware issues like memory
> or so on.

www.viaarena.com is the official VIA download site. You
can get a later driver for K8M800 there.

Paul
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