I just installed xp pro and it keeps freezing

either the hard drive is corrupt or the installation disk is

HI there,

Go to the link below and download your Sound Card Driver and install it.

http://driverscollection.com/?H=M7VIG 400&By=Biostar&SS=Windows XP

Cheers,

Marcus

You dont need the drivers untill after windows has been installed....However... If windows does not pick your network adapter up, you will need to load these before you can get online.
Download all the drivers for the motherboard and just Burn them onto a cd as a data disc, so you have them ready

Excellent motherboard. I've owned two of them, best socket A motherboard ever. Nvidia nforce chipset, soundstorm audio. You can definitely burn the drivers to a disk or pen drive for installation after you've reinstalled windows. Windows xp may even have drivers that will work for the network card. So you may just be able to go to asus's website with that system and install directly to the system. You will know if the network card is working when xp asks to activate, try to activate and it will tell you if you have a network connection or not. I would burn all the drivers and software to a disk though just in case. Downloading the drivers and saving them on a CD is easy. Just download and save the drivers/software to your "my documents folder" when downloading from asus. Then open my computer double click on the cdrw drive or dvdrw drive whichever one you have and drag the files from your documents to the cdrw//dvdrw window. Once you've done this you will see at the top of the window "files ready to be written to cd". At the top in the left column in window you will see "write files to cd". Insert a blank cd-r or cd-rw and click write files to cd. That's it once its finished you can use the cd to install the software. If you have any trouble or questions reply to this and I will be glad to help you. I miss my A7N8X-E I sold mine to my friend 5 years ago and its still running strong and I used it for 2 years before him.

You can download drivers from Biostar here. (This is the page for M7VIG 400. The page for M7VIG PRO lists the same drivers.) They list which operating systems are supported for each device.

I see your question asks "what kind of ... drives". If you didn't mean "drivers" and I've misunderstood your question, please post a follow-up with more information and I'll try to help further.

You can see the supported CPU list from Biostars web site;
http://www.biostar-usa.com/cpusupportA.asp#M7VIG%20400
Listed under Model. Scroll down the CPU list untill you come to M7VIG 400. Highest CPU supported is, AMD Athlon XP, 3000+ (333MHz)
Main web site for the M7VIG 400;
http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=M7VIG+400

List of possible CPU's; AMD Athlon XP 3000+ - AXDA3000DKV4D;
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Buy+AMD+Athlon+XP%2C+3000%2B+333MHz+CPU&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=#

Hope you find this helpful.
Cheer
Mike

to get the optimum performance from your computer, do the following steps:-

1. re-install windows
2. use appropriate drivers
3. use integrated video card
4. use less application software (only needed softwares)
5. keep the computer virus free

basing from MSI website cpu support for this mobo,
the best AMD processor you can fit on this mobo is
ATHLONXP 3200+.

Barton (0.13u) 200/400MHz FSB 512KB L2 Cache AthlonXP 3000+ 200 Auto OK AthlonXP 3200+ 200 Auto OK

http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=prodcpusupport&prod_no=592&maincat_no=1#menu

Three things
1) Do you have enough memory at lest 1Gb
2) Is it a full genuine Windows disk. Some disks out there are a mixture of different things and some cannot find hard drive
3) Try another setup disc and see if it works
Sometimes the disk has a read fault
One last thing to try is Reset BIOS to default

Any multiplier settings in bios? try using something like CPUID in your OS to see if it clocks faster then what bios tells you?