Constantly Freezing

Hi.. I came back from my Gf last sunday, and was going to sit by my computer and relax a bit.

The machine goes well till the next morning, where it "accidently" freezes.

i think, oh well, its probably just because the CPU is to hot. So i turn it off for awhile and let it rest. The next day i start it again, and it runs well for an hour, then it freezes... i check the bios if the CPU is too hot, but it isnt.. here's where i am wondering... i reboot and goes back into Windows.
After an half hour it freezes.... rebooting, freezes after 10 minutes.. And does that til Today.

The things ive tried is, Flash bios, Changing everything in my computer except the motherboard/Cpu. Changing OS. Using a Friend of mine's hdd and install a fresh OS on that.
And it freezes.. sometimes i get into the windows setup.. sometimes i cant even finish copy the files.. and sometimes the Installation is done and im in windows before it freezes.

Why does it crash?

My System: Abit KG7 Mobo.
Amd Xp 1600+
Ati Radeon 9700 PRO.
Creative SB 5.1 Live
An 42gb IBM deskstar hdd And a Maxtor 60gb.
And a SP 300watt.

The only thing i havent tried is to borrow a friends 340watt SP just to see if theres the problem..

But the wierd is that the problem just appeared when i started it sunday night.

help please, i need to know if its the motherboard/cpu its wrong with.

 

Personally, with that video card, I think you are asking for problems using a 300W PS in conjunction with your MB, processor and 2 HDD's - I'll assume you also have one or two CD drives and a floppy. I'd go to a 400-500W PS and one thats going to give you fairly consistant power as opposed to +/- 10% voltage swings. (That means a fairly good one).

As you know, the KG7 would run that particular cpu with the original bios, but kg7_ct.bin is the most recent to my knowledge. I am not sure if the 1600+XP timing is much different from a 1400/266 T-Bird and they both run at 1400mhz, but you may get some relief with the kg7_ct BIOS.

You didn't reference what OS, but when you did your re-install you might have been well advised to pull everything except the video card and then add cards back in one at a time after the OS was installed and MB drivers installed. Also - you will need both VIA mb drivers and AMD mb drivers because its got that 761 chipset. If you haven't done that correctly, that could be the entire source of your problem even though you are at the low end of the power required to run smoothly.

Depending on what you have in there for other PCI cards, you can more than likely disable spread spectrum to give you a bit more power consistancy to the video card and lastly, you might want to bump your core voltage up a notch. What are your current operating temps after you've been running for 10-15 minutes? If you are on the high side, we don't want to do too much to core voltage unless we upgrade your CPU cooler.

Have you checked Paul's unofficial ABIT FAQ page? Lots of good info there.