Biostar

Biostar has done a full test to support AMD Athlon XP CPU for the following models: M7VIB(version1.2), M7VKD(version1.1) and M7VKG(Version1.0).

There are three reasons could possibly cause this issue.

1. Windows XP requires an ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) function. Some model of motherboard does not support this function, or bios version don!|t have it enable. Please check with FAE department for detail or download the latest bios for the model of your motherboard.
2. An incorrect mass-storage device (such as a SCSI or IDE controller) driver is being loaded, or the driver was not written for Windows and is not compatible. Contact the device's manufacturer or download the latest driver for the mass-storage device.
3. There is a device connected to your mass-storage device that is preventing Windows from being installed. Remove any devices (such as scanners, tape drives, removable drives, and so on) from the mass-storage device controller. If the computer is IDE-based, verify that you have the master and slave designations set properly. If the mass-storage controller is SCSI-based, verify that the termination and bus speed is set properly. For more detail information, please refer to the Microsoft Web-site Knowledge Base as below link. http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q310/7/60.ASP

Computer's Technology Is trend to High Speed CPU, nowadays. However, high speed CPU will generate a huge Thermal Energy proportionally. The Thermal Energy will transfer as CPU Heat and subsequently it will affect the system performance. In the worst cases, if the CPU heat is over certain limit it will causes the system hang-up. Therefore, the way to work out this problem is to improve processor heat dissipation through increased surface area and concentrated airflow from attached fans. In addition, interface materials allow effective transfers of heat from the processor to the heat sink. If you are not sure which CPU heat sink Is suitable for you AMD CPU, please refer to following website. The entire CPU heat-sink model which is listed on this website had been approved by the AMD.
Http://www1.amd.com/products/athlon/thermals

When the system was booting, the BIOS Version will be shown on the top of the screen, located at the Upper Left hand corner. For Instance, your will see something like below, VKB0618B VKB - The model of the motherboard 0618 - The date of the BIOS. B - Stand for Biostar.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows 2000. Windows 2000 16-bits Direct Memory Access Is In use for Audio playback and only 8-bits Is left for the Digital Joystick to use. Subsequently, the program that uses the Digital Joystick loses contact intermittently.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft products as Win95, Win98, Win98SE and WinME. To work around this problem, Microsoft had suggested following Method :

• Use the MaxFileCache setting in the system.ini file to reduce the maximum amount of memory that V-cache uses to 512 Megabytes or less.
• Reduce the amount of memory that Is installed In your computer to 512MB or les

Generally, motherboard vender only provides the driver for Windows operating system. The driver of Linux operating system is provided by the chipset manufacturer. The Linux Operating System Is become more and more popular nowadays, so, many of the chipset manufacturer are starting to provide the Linux operating system driver.

Some models of CPU fan on the reseller market will not support this function. They don't have a signal pin from the fan to send through the 3-pin connector to the system. The CPU fan that comes with the Boxed CPU is recommended to use with your system.

Some of CPU fan will generate much noise, it may interfere with the temperature and voltage signals which is reported to the onboard A/D converter. Under such circumstances the hardware monitoring utility will give incorrect statistics. Fan coming with boxed CPUs usually produce less noise.
Please ensure that the CPU fan is powerful enough to dissipate the CPU's heat, otherwise the CPU temperature will higher than the expected.

Please ensure your graphic card can support 3Dmark2001Benchmark. Based on Madionin given information, some of the graphic card's 3D Accelerators are too old to run the 3DMark2001. In order to run the 3DMark2001 smoothly, the system needs,

1. System Memory Min. Request for 128MB or above. (Unshared system RAM 128MB)
2. Video memory 16MB or above.
3. Direct X 8.0a or above.