I have an Asus KV8-MX board with a Duron 3000 cpu with 512MB ram. I know pretty cheap, but I built it 2 years ago so back off. hahaha. Anyways my problem is that at random points my computer locks up and the screen gets random lines on it and the only way to fix it is to restart. Sometimes it'll run for an hour, sometimes it won't even load all the desktop icons before it locks up. I've swapped memory and nothing changes. I swapped hard drives to a new one thinking it might be a windows/driver problem, but halfway through Windows XP setup it did the same thing. It also took about an hour to format the drive. I'm using the onboard video port which might be the problem but if anyone has any suggestions/ ideas let me know. Thanks.
Bad Motherboard/CPU?
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A Duron boat anchor alright! 
Those were AMD's flop there.
After so long a number of things like a need to replace a battery on the board, memory faults now being seen but you already swapped the memory out, or simply a loss of bios programming maybe the bios eprom itself?
Besides a new battery and bios update wear and tear on the board and supply or even a cpu problem may be being seen. With the Windows setup freezing on you the substitute memory or new drive even may have a problem.
I would lay odds on a need for a fresh battery there. The lack of retaining the cmos information from a weak battery will gum up the works. Yet you can never rule a hardware fault from age and wear and the need to blast the dust and debris out of an old case where memory slots as well as pci slots see buildup.
Those were AMD's flop there.After so long a number of things like a need to replace a battery on the board, memory faults now being seen but you already swapped the memory out, or simply a loss of bios programming maybe the bios eprom itself?
Besides a new battery and bios update wear and tear on the board and supply or even a cpu problem may be being seen. With the Windows setup freezing on you the substitute memory or new drive even may have a problem.
I would lay odds on a need for a fresh battery there. The lack of retaining the cmos information from a weak battery will gum up the works. Yet you can never rule a hardware fault from age and wear and the need to blast the dust and debris out of an old case where memory slots as well as pci slots see buildup.
Duron 3000, they never made one. The Fastest Duron was the Applebred 1.8ghz. Are you sure it not a Sempron 3000+. But the Duron was far from a boat anchor or flops. AMD sold a many of them and they were just Athlons with less cache and Overclocked really well, they just changed the name to Sempron at the end of socket A/462 era.
Has it always done this? First guess would be a Power supply getting weak or the Onboard video is going out. Try a video card if you have one to make sure the onboard isnt screwed up.
The Duron was a "boat anchor"! The older TBirds were the real ocers for the early Atholons. Since that model board is a Socket 754 that rules out seeing any Duron on it. I suspected the obvious misspelling of the model number there which isn't KV8-MX but correctly K8V-MX. The support section's download page for updates and the user manuals is seen at http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
PC eye the Durons/Semprons have always used Athlon cores with less cache. The Durons/Semprons would almost always clock better than the Athlon because of it. The Morgan core Durons where just Athlon Palomino cores and the Applebred durons were just Thoroughbred Athlon cores
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And the XP2500 Barton cored Atholon was a Socket A cpu. But the board there is a Socket 754 model. No Durons! One look at the model number shows that.
Before pointing at the board any further however did you try a different cable when trying a new drive? Besides memory and failing heads on a drive a flaky cable doesn't help any. If that is rather dryed up and stiff continuity can be lost.
Before pointing at the board any further however did you try a different cable when trying a new drive? Besides memory and failing heads on a drive a flaky cable doesn't help any. If that is rather dryed up and stiff continuity can be lost.
Yeah I was at work and in a hurry so I screwed a few things up. Definitely a sempron 3000. It started a few months ago and since it's my mom's computer I figured it was something she was doing. But it has given me the same problems. I'll try a new video card as I suspect it is the onboard video.
Generally while not always a bad video will sound off with a beep code heard especially on Asus boards. When going to install video drivers with a bad card in or seeing display problems that would tend to single out the card there. But onboard is a different item since that is on the board itself without any error codes when the cpu chip starts to go.
The thing there however is that the display is effected more then anything while that still shouldn't see the XP installer hang on you. Generally that will point at memory, a bad drive whether hard dirve or optical, or even bad installation disk. A good lens cleaner and overall case cleaning if the slots are loaded up with dust would be the first item if no board faults are being seen.
The thing there however is that the display is effected more then anything while that still shouldn't see the XP installer hang on you. Generally that will point at memory, a bad drive whether hard dirve or optical, or even bad installation disk. A good lens cleaner and overall case cleaning if the slots are loaded up with dust would be the first item if no board faults are being seen.