ok, so recently I put together a new computer. When I am running games it seems to freeze at random times and I have to restart the whole thing. For some reason I also cant install new memory on it without the blue screen of death popping up 5 minutes after booting up.

It is an ASUS P4S800 Motherboard, 478 Socket.
I have one PC3200 1GB OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K DDR Dual channel Installed.
I have a MAXTOR STM3160812A 160 GB hardrive
Radeon 9200 PRO AGP 128mb Video Card
Netgear 108 mbps Wireless PCI adapter
Pentium 4 CPU 3.20 GHz
Windows XP SP3

Sometimes when it restarts it takes me directly to the setup and when I highlight CPU External Frequency it says it
isnt adjusted properly; it is set at 200/33.

When I tried installing 2GB (2x1)PC3200 CT2CP12864Z40B Crucial Memory the blue screen showed up 5-10 minutes within proper boot up. (I set BIOS settings to best of my knowledge post install.)

Another issue I am having with my build is the external hardrive. On my old computer, which was much weaker then
this one, (512 ram, 1000 mghz) the external drive ran fine. I can watch movies off of it, play music in winamp
directly through it. Now on this computer there are constant Writing Delayed Errors. At first it is able to read it
fine, then after a while errors just start occuring. it starts slowing down and eventually it just says that it
needs to be formatted for me to access it. Sometiems I can read it but when I try to take data from it is says the file path cannot be recognized. Mind that this is all on USB2.

I want to make a BIOS upgrade but I have no floppy and I have no clue what to do after downloading the 200kb upgrade file from their site.

What could the problems be? Is there anything I can do to help you help me? any input is appreciated.

Get the Hard drive manufacturer's software and test the drive. It will probably check good. And D/L memtest and run it for memory problems.

Some common reasons for a delayed-write failure are:

* 1. Problems with a device driver, especially a SCSI or RAID device driver. Some RAID device drivers are known to issue spurious "Delayed Write Failed" errors in XP Service Pack 2. Most manufacturers have been alerted to this, so check to make sure the disk drivers are up-to-date.

* 2. Cabling problems. A faulty or broken cable -- especially for an external USB or Firewire enclosure—can generate this error. It can also happen if the cable is too long, or if it is hooked up through a hub that isn't up to spec. Another possible culprit is if you have a UDMA drive that requires an 80-pin cable, and you are using a 40-pin cable.

* 3. SCSI termination errors. This has become less likely with the advent of self-terminating SCSI hardware, but it shouldn't be counted out.

* 4. Media errors. This is the worst possible scenario -- essentially, drive failure. If you can garner statistics on the drive via SMART (such as SMART & Simple (http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/smart/smart.html), you may be able to determine if there's a mechanical failure in the offing. Gibson Research's SpinRite tool (http://grc.com/) is also useful for assessing media errors, but be warned: It may take a long time to do a thorough test.

* 5. BIOS settings on the computer are forcing faster UDMA modes than the drive controller can handle. This is unlikely, especially with newer hardware (which can support UDMA far more flexibly), but it can usually be fixed with a BIOS upgrade, or by resetting the BIOS entries for the hard drives to auto-detect settings. Devices set to UDMA Mode 6 that produce this error, for instance, might need to be set to Mode 5.

* 6. Controller issues. I've observed that USB controllers that contend strongly with other hardware can produce this error. In systems that have both "long" and "short" PCI slots (i.e., 64-bit and 32-bit), try moving the USB controller to the long slot. Older PCI cards will not fit in such a slot.

* 7. Memory parity issues. If the problem appears after installing new memory, the memory in question may be faulty or not of the correct type for the motherboard in question. (This may go hand-in-hand with other problems such as random lockups, too.)

* 8. The LargeSystemCache Registry tweak and ATI video adapters. One peculiar set of circumstances that has been observed on multiple machines with ATI video adapters and more than 512MB of memory involves the LargeSystemCache Registry setting, a DWORD entry found in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSe ssion ManagerMemory Management. This setting governs the amount of memory set aside by the system for certain kernel processes. If it's set to 1 (which allegedly improves performance on systems with more than 512MB of memory), it can cause data corruption on some systems, and produce the "Delayed Write Failed" error. Try resetting it to 0 if it's been set.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Writing+Delayed+Errors&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

http://www.fixya.com/support/p362891-asus_p4s800_motherboard

Are you sure that board supports 1 Gig memory sticks and P4 3Mhz cpu?

You may want to update the bios now.

Is it P4S800 mx MB? Do you know the exact model?