Issues with USB2 PCI card on motherboard

[Buswell]

Hi, I've trawled everywhere trying to look for a solution to a baffling problems, so I wonder if anyone knows what I need to do.

My PC (spec below) has been running fine for a while. No major problems. Yet I've just bought a USB 2.0 PCI card and everytime I put it in, the PC wouldn't load up. When I take the card out, the PC loaded fine, but as soon as I put it back in, it wouldn't even turn on.

I thought the motherboard might need updating, so I used flash855 and when I put in the USB card, it loads up (so far so good). However, when I now try to load XP, it bluescreens and comes up with an error STOP : 0x0000007F (0x000000D, 0x0000000, 0x0000000, 0x0000000).

Is this to do with my BIOS, or have I found something else out now!

Here's the spec.

MOTHERBOARD : Gigabyte GA-6VX7-4X
CPU : Pentium 3 800 / 133Mhz
RAM : 1 Gb (2 sticks of 512) PC-133 SDRAM
HDD : Western Digital 80gig
PSU : Macron Power MPT-301 300w

Any help with this would be appreciated.

Cheers

Buswell

 

[Blakhart]

Hi
Have you tried using the card in another slot? If so and the result's the same, you might try another brand of pci card.

 

[Buswell]

HI, thanks for the reply.
I've updated my BIOS to F45, and the PC now turns on. However, when I tried to reinstall XP, I got an error STOP : 0x0000007F (0x000000D, 0x0000000, 0x0000000, 0x0000000).

I've taken out the PCI card, tried to reinstall XP, and all I'm getting is an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error. I'm gonna test my RAM again (as that was new a few weeks ago), but I can't see what's changed to cause these errors, as XP installed fine the other week.

 

[patio]

It's a good possibility that the PCI card is no good...take it back and have them replace it.

patio.

 

[Buswell]

hi,
I tried other slots for the PCI card, and tested in other PC, and it was fine. Then I tested the memory fulled, and it failed. Have sorted this now. Thanks for any help.