Asus a7V 333 with these components?

[kevinfrey]

I'm considering buying a ASUS a7V 333 Mobo to go with the following components:

AMD Athlon XP 2100+ 1.73GHz Processor Retail w/Fan and Heatsink
Gainward GeForce4 PowerPack! Ultra/650XP Golden SampleTi4200
Leadtek WinFast TV2000XP Delux DVR
2 times Kingston 512MB DDR333 PC2700 Memory
Western Digital Caviar Special Edition WD800JB 80GB ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer
Liteon LTD163 16x DVD
Lite On 40X12X48 CDRW Model: LTR40125S
SONY CRT MONITOR Multiscan® E540 21"
Floppy Drive
Smart Link V92 PCI Modem
WindowsXP Home Edition
Antec PLUS660 w/330W

I built the above system last November using a
Soyo SY-K333 Dragon Ultra Platinum Edition Via KT333, and have had many problems (freezes). I've read about similar problems with this mobo+Nvidia graphic card+WinXP.
I considered power supply problems in the beginning. Someone said that my brand name power supply "Antec" was enough. My problems started as soon as I put the system together before I had my TV tuner card. I checked for IRQ conflicts and saw that my modem card was sharing IRQ 11 with my graphic card. I tried every slot for the modem and it always wanted to share 11 with my vid card. I removed the modem card and my problems went away. I tried 3 different pci modems and all caused sharing and freezes. So I went with a serial external modem, and my freezes dissapeared. I added the TV tuner card which did not try to share IRQ11. It shares IRQ 10 with a Via USB universal host controller.
I also added a USB scanner. No problems or freezes at first. About 2 months ago I started getting the freezes again. Always when I was connected to the internet. I'm pretty much at a loss other than I am guareented imediate freezes if i install a pci modem. My freezes might be unrelated. Who knows???????
So, I'm taking a chance that it might be mobo related.

Does the Asus a7V 333 seem like a good choice for my components?
thanks,
kev

[BluesMan1]

I have the A7V333 actually with XP 2100+.

One of the tool that i really like is the software that's on the board CD for "flashing" the board.

Since i'm using this board the only problem that i had was with the RAID feature which i don't use anymore.

I upgrade my drivers when needed, flash the board using the tool and never had any problems related to any of my hardware.

With Windows XP (Home or Pro) i make sure that i use "msconfig" to remove any programs from the background, delete everything in the "Prefetch" folders at least once a month and if it's freezes when you're on the web you can try Ad Aware, SpyBot and other software for spywares.

I also use Window Washer, HD Valet, Registry First Aid and RegScrubXP to keep everything clean.

You can also try to reset TCP/IP and for more info about it this is the Microsoft web page for it:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...NoWebContent=1

Hope this help.

[Omardeth]

i would get a motehrboard with the nforce2 or nforce2 ultra chipset . it preforms better than the kt400 or kt333 chipset .