Motherboard Issues

Published on September 7, 2009 By kona0197 In Personal Computing

Seems I have a problem here. I have a Biostar Tforce4 U motherboard. For some reason this board really does not play nice with the Nforce4 drivers. By that I mean if i try to burn a CD or DVD using Nero it will not work. The DVD Burner is on SATA. The hard drive is IDE. However if I switch back to regular Windows XP drivers than the disk will burn. Top that off with the system will reboot itself from time to time due to an error. The error has something to do with minidumping or something. I can't read it because it goes by to quick. All this and sometimes the machine will hang while booting. My options are thus:

Reinstall XP for the hundredth time and deal with this all over again
Quit using Nero
Install Vista after buying a copy
Just deal with it till I can get a better PC

The thing about all this is this machine is new. We newer than my old P4 setup.

Thoughts?

Comments (Page 1)

harpo99999

on Sep 07, 2009

bsd reboots could be from marginal memory, oxidised ram contacts, marginal powersupply, even a flacky motherboard, thje easiest test is to pull the ram and re-install the ram the see if it still bsd's

harpo

kona0197

on Sep 07, 2009

I didn't have a BSOD. It just reboots. Only happened once. I could run a memtest on it.

Anthony R

on Sep 08, 2009

I think you'll need to liquid cool it

kona0197

on Sep 08, 2009

No thanks. Cooling isn't an issue.

Fuzzy Logic

on Sep 08, 2009

Get rid of Nero, there are free alternatives out there. Nero is twitchy at best. Was it OEM?

Install Vista even though it's a pirated copy

No no no no no.... I'd rather you tell me you'd switched to a Mac.

I think you'll need to liquid cool it

Not a very sensible solution :/

Anthony R

on Sep 08, 2009

lol, just kidding around. Pull the plug on Nero, especially if its a pirated version. Most pirated software contains lots of other goodies, such as keyloggers and dangerous backdoor exploit that can often cause system instability. I have Roxio but i never even use it cause I favor a free app called Infrarecorder.

http://infrarecorder.org/?page_id=5

Infra recorder and Audacity will do anything Nero does and it will do it for free. To top it all off, it has a much smaller footprint. so start there and see what happens. If no fix then start troubleshooting hardware.

kona0197

on Sep 08, 2009

Fuzzy - yes it's a OEM version. So should I install the Nforce drivers then use a different program? If so what one? I'm selling my old computer to aquire a legit version of Vista.

boss0190

on Sep 08, 2009

I'm selling my old computer to aquire a legit version of Vista.

Why not Win 7 instead of Vista?

Island Dog

on Sep 08, 2009

Do I need to remind the policy about warez here? It is not tolerated at all and will result in banning.

Phoon

on Sep 08, 2009

Install Vista even though it's a pirated copy

(sigh)

Have you tried a different hard drive with a fresh install? Bios updates? Using proper drivers?

kona0197

on Sep 08, 2009

Island Dog I don't think anyone was talking about warez. I was only being honest in my opening post. Of course I will not use the Vista copy I have.

Calm down everyone.

Phoon - sigh - yes I have. Multiple times.

kona0197

on Sep 08, 2009

boss0190

reply 8

I'm selling my old computer to aquire a legit version of Vista.
Why not Win 7 instead of Vista?

Because Windows 7 isn't available at the store right now...

Island Dog

on Sep 08, 2009

You are missing the point. An illegal copy of Windows is warez, and talking about it being in your possession or with intent to download is not tolerated.

kona0197

on Sep 08, 2009

Forget I said anything then. I edited my first post.

boss0190

on Sep 08, 2009

Because Windows 7 isn't available at the store right now...

But it's only a month away. Why waste the money on Vista when you can wait a bit and get a much better OS?

(You should have downloaded the RC when it was available, would have been good till March)

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