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More info?)
Just thought I'd let you all know it turned out to be CPU faulty , verified
by installing a 2.4 and install sailed through
"JK" <(please reply to group, email invalid) junk@mail.dk> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 21:17:16 +0100, "Jim" <pir8j@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I have just put together the above board with P4 3ghz Northwood and 2 x
>>256mb of kingston pc3200 (single sided) ram
>>a samsung spinpoint 160gb drive and nec2500 dvd rw
>>No matter what I try I cannot get winxp to install , all I get is various
>>blue screens part way through install
>>either IRQ errors or memory page faults , I have no other h/w installed
>>yet
>>and have run memtest+ extensively which shows all ok
>>
>>Can anyone point me in right direction
>>
>
> It could be a ram problem. Check how fast the ram runs. It should run
> no faster than 200 MHz or DDR400.
> It can also be incompatible ram. Check asus site and see what the
> report as compatible. Asus can be finicky with ram.
>
> I saw ram-faults once with an epox nforce 2. The bios choosed fsb 233
> for ram, and I should prefer 166 (DDR333) for it. I corrected and
> saved the bios, and that solved all problems. My ram could never make
> fsb233, since it was pc2700.
>
> Secondly if the harddisk is not new, I have seen that XP-install
> checks for errors that no other disk-handling software can see. So the
> medicine is: connect the harddisk as slave on another computer and
> make partition checks in 'My computer' on it. Then install with no
> errors detected.
>
> Third: the chipset is much newer than XP. Is it necessary with some
> IDE-drivers on a floppy ? One press F6 when scsi drivers are asked
> for, and then load the drivers from floppy. Windows mentions all
> external controllers as scsi, even if they are not scsi.
>
> I also think it is a good idea to use a prepartioned harddisk. A 10
> Gbyte partition is big enough for a c-drive, and it is easier to
> back-up. Although SP1 is built-in, the software is probably still
> loaded as last step, as a patch.
>
> best regards
>
> John