I've been trying for the last few weeks to build a computer, but i've had nothing but problems. I'm pretty new to this and would greatly appreciate some help.
A friend of mine gave me his old CPU and MB, telling me that they stopped working a while ago but that he's pretty sure that it was just the motherboard and that the CPU is fine. After many searches on the internet, it turns out that the CPU is pretty tough to wreck so i'm going forward under the assumption that it works. Bought an ASUS P7P55-M motherboard because it was the only one on Amazon that supported an 1156 processor. Here's what I have so far:
Motherboard: ASUS P7P55-M LGA 1156
CPU: Intel i3 530 4m Cache 2.93 ghz
RAM: Kingston Technology HyperX Blu 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM (Kit of 2)
PSU: Not sure on the actual name but it's 650W and it works
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 5670 (My extra GPU)
Now the problem is when I try to install Windows 7 on a clean HDD, it'll crash a few seconds into the "Starting Windows" boot scene and give me a BSOD, either irql_not_less_or_equal or Memory_Management. Looking this up, it seems that it's possibly a RAM issue? I've tried setting the voltage and timings manually, but no luck. It's possible I might have the timings wrong though, I haven't been able to find a proper listing for it. I don't know if the RAM is bad, but I bought it new a week and a half ago so it shouldn't be.
Any help on this matter would be amazing, and i'm sorry if i've forgotten to list anything or if this is against the rules. I've just been wracking my brain trying to figure out what the problem is.
A friend of mine gave me his old CPU and MB, telling me that they stopped working a while ago but that he's pretty sure that it was just the motherboard and that the CPU is fine. After many searches on the internet, it turns out that the CPU is pretty tough to wreck so i'm going forward under the assumption that it works. Bought an ASUS P7P55-M motherboard because it was the only one on Amazon that supported an 1156 processor. Here's what I have so far:
Motherboard: ASUS P7P55-M LGA 1156
CPU: Intel i3 530 4m Cache 2.93 ghz
RAM: Kingston Technology HyperX Blu 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM (Kit of 2)
PSU: Not sure on the actual name but it's 650W and it works
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 5670 (My extra GPU)
Now the problem is when I try to install Windows 7 on a clean HDD, it'll crash a few seconds into the "Starting Windows" boot scene and give me a BSOD, either irql_not_less_or_equal or Memory_Management. Looking this up, it seems that it's possibly a RAM issue? I've tried setting the voltage and timings manually, but no luck. It's possible I might have the timings wrong though, I haven't been able to find a proper listing for it. I don't know if the RAM is bad, but I bought it new a week and a half ago so it shouldn't be.
Any help on this matter would be amazing, and i'm sorry if i've forgotten to list anything or if this is against the rules. I've just been wracking my brain trying to figure out what the problem is.
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