PC Halting, please help!

[Marshmallowman]

Sounds like your ram is okay, but setting it to SPD values and doing a round of test to verify it runs would not hurt.

I guess next thing to test is your video, do you have an alterantive video card to try for a while?

[Kooldino]

Yeah, bump for fastwrites. They are certainly the devil.

[mmp121]

I think that was one of the first things I disabled on the AIW when I found out about them via SmartGART. But I guess it didn't help much. Right now FastWrites are disabled, but the AIW still gives me trouble. I am thinking that the card needs re-seating.

[diuby]

Aiw 9000pro latest drivers
Via P4x266 chipset mainboard -P4 2400b
windows XP

I had random frezees most of the times watching videos or with video editing program (not with games). No Ram timings (or AGP 4x-2x-1x mode) solved the problem. Now with some bios settings it seems i don't have the problem any more (but i need further time to test because the "randomness" of the problem):
AGP master 1 ws write DISABLED
AGP master 1 ws read DISABLED
CPU to AGP Post write DISABLED
CPU to AGP write buffer DISABLED

I read somewhere that reducing AGP aperture to 64M may help (but i don't like this settings for games).
So try disabling AGP and PCI timings.
I hope this help

[diuby]

sorry
CPU to PCI write buffer DISABLED

[mmp121]

Things I've done so far...

- I've changed the memory to SPD and BIOS Slow, and no random halts yet. *knocks on wood*

- I installed CAT 3.9 w/Hotfix since I have an AIW and MMC 8.7

CAT 3.9 w/Hotfix does NOT have VPU Recover. So I will have to see what happens with that now.

Otherwise, i guess right now I'm on a wait and see approach. Thanks again for all your help. I will try them out and see what happens in the up coming few days.