I am building a new computer. I am using a ECS K7VZA mother board and a 1.4gig Thunderbird processor. I picked up a 512meg ram stick from Office Max (kbyte brand, I think) and installed it. At first I couldn't get a screen at all. Then I tried swapping memory from my Dell (256 oem from Dell P3 1 gig). Now I could get a screen for a while but after about 20 seconds or so it would freeze. So I went to my computer store and picked up a 512 meg stick, they told me it was Micron but it didn't say so on the memory. Now the system will come on for about 30 seconds before it freezes up. Basically, I have been entering the setup and trying to check out the settings but, as I said it freezes up.
By the way, all these memory sticks work fine in my Dell.
I read from 1st Choice Memory about capatibility issues with tbirds, see this thread: http://www.icentral.com/html/1stchoicememory/page760.html so I thought maybe it is still a memory issue.
The only weird wrench in this is, if I don't enter setup it will often go to a window that says to put a system disk in the disk drive or sometimes it says the cd-rom drive. I put in system disks to boot it and it comes back with a message that it is not a system disk. This with a Win98 boot disk and with a MS Win98 CD. It doesn't seem to freeze at this point. I can keep trying to get it to recognize a system disk and it doesn't freeze, but wont proceed either.
I am about ready to order new memory, should I or is this something else completely? Any thoughts on this problem would be greatly appreciated.
By the way, all these memory sticks work fine in my Dell.
I read from 1st Choice Memory about capatibility issues with tbirds, see this thread: http://www.icentral.com/html/1stchoicememory/page760.html so I thought maybe it is still a memory issue.
The only weird wrench in this is, if I don't enter setup it will often go to a window that says to put a system disk in the disk drive or sometimes it says the cd-rom drive. I put in system disks to boot it and it comes back with a message that it is not a system disk. This with a Win98 boot disk and with a MS Win98 CD. It doesn't seem to freeze at this point. I can keep trying to get it to recognize a system disk and it doesn't freeze, but wont proceed either.
I am about ready to order new memory, should I or is this something else completely? Any thoughts on this problem would be greatly appreciated.