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Allan Quartermain

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Since: Aug 12, 2003
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 8:31 am
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I had an Athlon XP 1700 on an ECS K7S5a that I finally got to run stable.
But geek that I am, when the Athlon XP 2400 went on sale I had to have one.
It came with an ECS K7S5A PRO board, So I installed both. I have 512 MB
PC 133 memory, 2 hard drives, 1 CDRW and 1 DVD, running a scanner, card
reader, power usb port and joystick off the four USB ports in the back.

System dumps randomly. Event Log says something about Parvdm, and
microsoft doesn't even have a mention of it in their KB. OS is Win XP pro
(which I did a re-install after the board change). video is GForce, but
every thing on this system worked fine on the old.

Any Ideas?

Allan

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 8:40 am
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"Allan Quartermain" <aqmain.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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 > I had an Athlon XP 1700 on an ECS K7S5a that I finally got to run stable.
 > But geek that I am, when the Athlon XP 2400 went on sale I had to have
one.
 > It came with an ECS K7S5A PRO board, So I installed both. I have 512 MB
 > PC 133 memory, 2 hard drives, 1 CDRW and 1 DVD, running a scanner, card
 > reader, power usb port and joystick off the four USB ports in the back.
 >
 > System dumps randomly. Event Log says something about Parvdm, and
 > microsoft doesn't even have a mention of it in their KB. OS is Win XP pro
 > (which I did a re-install after the board change). video is GForce, but
 > every thing on this system worked fine on the old.
 >
 > Any Ideas?
 >
 > Allan

Did a google search on Pardvm and got lots of hits. Here's one
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.sysopt.com/forum/printthread.php?threadid=139039" target="_blank">http://www.sysopt.com/forum/printthread.php?threadid=139039</a> which says
uninstall parallel ports or change bios parallel port ECP settings.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 11:37 pm
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On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 05:31:11 GMT, In this world we created Allan
Quartermain <aqmain.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote :

 >I had an Athlon XP 1700 on an ECS K7S5a that I finally got to run stable.
 >But geek that I am, when the Athlon XP 2400 went on sale I had to have one.
 >It came with an ECS K7S5A PRO board, So I installed both. I have 512 MB
 >PC 133 memory, 2 hard drives, 1 CDRW and 1 DVD, running a scanner, card
 >reader, power usb port and joystick off the four USB ports in the back.
 >
 >System dumps randomly. Event Log says something about Parvdm, and
 >microsoft doesn't even have a mention of it in their KB. OS is Win XP pro
 >(which I did a re-install after the board change). video is GForce, but
 >every thing on this system worked fine on the old.
 >
 >Any Ideas?
 >
 >Allan

To see if it's actually a system critical fault switch off the silly
XP automatic restart.
My Computer/Right click/Properties/Advanced/Startup and
Recovery/Auto-restart and re-boot the system.
If it doesn't cause a problem you know it's not that big a
deal and you can research at leisure but still use the system.
HTH Smile



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