Resolved Setting up motherboard

OK, so I have an old ASUS P4S800 MX mobo and I decided to reinstall the o/s because of random bsod's. I thought I had fixed the real issue because I actually decided to read the mobo manual and it said that running DDR 400 is not recommended unless the RAM is from the qualified vendors list. But after installing DDR 333 the machine started doing bsod's after a month of stablilty--mainly 0xC2's pointing to the tcpip.sys file. Googling around suggested doing a sfc /scannow but the original install disk was a xp sp2 and of course over the years the o/s was updated to sp3 and at about the 74% mark it asked for the install disk and rejected it because it said it was'nt the right version. Whatever. I decided to do a clean install. So yesterday after installing the sp2 and getting 70+ updates and then sp3, the machine bsod's on me -- doing a 0xA with the file being blamed as the sisnic.sys file. So here's the question: I whip out the CD for the mobo and install the lan driver to fix this sisnic issue and I notice that it also has an install driver for the AGP video card. Now you can use the onboard video or one can install an AGP card. I do have Nvidia 6600 GT with the driver installed. But why does the mobo cd have a driver for AGP? Does the chipset need an AGP driver besides the video card itself?

Last but not least I can hear some people out there laughing about this antiquated system of mine but all it does is act as a host in network scenrios that I design, i.e. routing protocols ospf, eigrp, testing access control lists, etc.

Do I make sense?

Thanks all and happy new year . Here's hoping you never get a bsod

 

Hi elcajongunsfan, I just did a Google and can you confirm this link relates to your Model Comp?
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_478/P4S800MX/

It would appear that it supports DDR400 and has built-in graphics.
Did you change the RAM to DDR333, and if it was running with DDR400 for quite some time I would suggest a thorough clean of all connections and make sure there is no dust collection.
You would probably be aware that if you install a Graphics card with it's Drivers, that it might pay to Disable the onboard graphics in case there is a clash in personalities. Cheers Neil.

 

As Neil pointed out to you, your mobo has onboard Graphics, but if you wish to do so you can install a Video card.
A point to remember is, if you re-install your OS like you did, you should always install all the Motherboard drivers Chipset, Lan, Graphics, Audio, when you install a add on VGA card AGP in your case, you will need to install drivers for this specific card, sometimes the MS drivers can be sufficent, but I would look for the specific drivers for that card.
Neil pretty much covered your question regarding the Ram.

 

Thanks for replies..As to Neil, the mobo manual sez, in regards to DDR 400, that the qualified vendors list only allows ½ gig and ¼ gig sticks, so I went with that. As for the motherboard drivers, like I said, I found it interesting that the mobo CD has a driver for the AGP. Here's where my ignorance comes into play: Why would a motherboard CD have an AGP driver? It can't be a generic-for-all
video cards? So I was wondering if it is some kind of chipset driver for the AGP.

Tnx all!

 

Thanks Pete, that was the answer I was looking for. Maybe all these years the bsods were because the driver for the agp wasn'nt installed. Mark this
topic as solved or whatever you do

 

Nice to see you got the info from Pete. You can mark the Thread as "Resolved" by accessing Thread Tools and mark accordingly. Cheers Neil.