can't install/boot winxp the problem: i cannot install winXP, nor boot into it with an install from another system (blue screen during load, or hang during install) however, i can install and boot win98 albeit not stable the system: abit NF7 v2.0 (non-S) amd athlon xp 2100+ AIUHB 2* 512Mb pc3200 takeMS this i already did: rma'd mobo -> problem remained another cpu (2200+) -> same problem exchanged ram -> problem is still here tried diffirent hd's -> did not help except for the graka, everything is new and the graka is working fine for 3 weeks now in another system (gaming, 3dmarking, ...) so eh, anyone any ideas? |
change PSU. |
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voltage rails are fine and adjustable but ok, i'll give it a shot would be a shame though, such a nice psu |
PCI-slots : only essential stuff, no nics/sound/modems/... BIOS : disable all non-essential onboard stuff, use most safe settings for cpu/ram ... try again |
psu change didn't help pci slots are empty loaded fail safe defaults disabled all onboard **** problem still here very strange indeed nf7-s worked fine but i fried that one edit: i'm even using stock cooling |
Try to use one memory at the time, that is mostly the problem, Is it PC3200? www.bytesatwork.be/forum |
tried www.memtest86.com already. Most likely memory failiure. Have you tried another BRAND of memory, or just had the ones you have replaced? |
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Only way around this is to change the IDE controller to the default windows driver BEFORE you remove the harddrive. Still, problems with installing XP and stability issues under 98 point to a core problem, CPU-memory-mobo. A faulty CD(-drive) could cause the first, but once win98 in installed it should work fine. If possible you might try another approach, instead of replacing the parts of the system, take a working system, and replace it's parts one at a time. (motherboard, see above, unless you have another NF2 board, set the IDE controller to default) The only problem is that this requires another -working- system. And small addition to the memtest thingy. Press c, 2, and the key for "full test" or something similar. It takes ages but if it passes 2 of those, it's OK BTW never seen memory fail on the extended tests that didn't fail on the standard tests, but it might happen. Also I've seen memory without errors in memtest, but still causing problems. Most often this happens on intel platforms. |
back from holiday i'm going to save some money and buy diffirent ram but in the meanwhile i messed around a bit with the system, and i'm getting a little further with the win install however when it's almost done i get this error: |
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