P5AD2 booting problems with XP

[Guest]

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I've put together a new system with the following configuration :

Ultra X-Connect 500W ATX PS w/2 80mm Fans
Intel P4 550 3.4Ghz 1MB Cache 800fsb SocT 775 HT
Speeze Sckt 775 Intel Prescott 3.4GHz Cooling Fan
Asus P5AD2 Premium Socket 775 Motherboard
Kingston 1024MB PC4200 DDR2 533MHZ
Abit Radeon X600 XT 256mb PCIe w/DVI & TV Out
Maxtor IDE 30GB Hard drive
Some older CD-Rom
Windows XP


The PSU has only a 20-pin power connection, but I have read on this
group that this is ok.
The hard drive is configured as the primary master, the CD-ROM device
is slave.
The machine powers up ok, I can get into the BIOS (1008 version) and
see the devices.
The BIOS also recongnises the 1024 RAM. The manual supports the
Kingston memory.
I haven't made any changes to the BIOS.
The Hard Drive came out of my older machine which has an ASUS socket
487 mother board.
However, when XP starts up on the P5AD2 board, XP hangs and then the
system reboots.
Upon restarting, I try and boot XP in 'Safe Mode' and it too causes
the system to reboot.
I've taken the Hard Drive off the P5AD2 and placed it back in my older
ASUS board and there it boots with no problems.
I then took yet another hard drive off another XP system I have and it
too would not load XP on the P5AD2 board.
I can boot XP off the CD-Rom and go into 'repair mode' and get a dos
shell started. chkdsk reports no errors.
I took yet another IDE hard drive and connected it to the P5AD2 board
and tried to install XP on it.
However, during the XP inspection phase, XP crashes with a system
failure message.
I've tried re-seating the Kingston RAM in another slot, yet the same
problem occurs.

Any clues?
Thanks in advance

 

[benjamin]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

Does it ever get to the "graphics" part of the XP bootup? I'm
wondering if it's the video card having a problem. Try adjusting some
of the BIOS video card related settings.

-Ben

steve_faehn@coxtarget.com (Stephen Faehn) wrote in message news:<39045114.0411150557.30ed44c8@posting.google.com>...
> I've put together a new system with the following configuration :
>
> Ultra X-Connect 500W ATX PS w/2 80mm Fans
> Intel P4 550 3.4Ghz 1MB Cache 800fsb SocT 775 HT
> Speeze Sckt 775 Intel Prescott 3.4GHz Cooling Fan
> Asus P5AD2 Premium Socket 775 Motherboard
> Kingston 1024MB PC4200 DDR2 533MHZ
> Abit Radeon X600 XT 256mb PCIe w/DVI & TV Out
> Maxtor IDE 30GB Hard drive
> Some older CD-Rom
> Windows XP
>
>
> The PSU has only a 20-pin power connection, but I have read on this
> group that this is ok.
> The hard drive is configured as the primary master, the CD-ROM device
> is slave.
> The machine powers up ok, I can get into the BIOS (1008 version) and
> see the devices.
> The BIOS also recongnises the 1024 RAM. The manual supports the
> Kingston memory.
> I haven't made any changes to the BIOS.
> The Hard Drive came out of my older machine which has an ASUS socket
> 487 mother board.
> However, when XP starts up on the P5AD2 board, XP hangs and then the
> system reboots.
> Upon restarting, I try and boot XP in 'Safe Mode' and it too causes
> the system to reboot.
> I've taken the Hard Drive off the P5AD2 and placed it back in my older
> ASUS board and there it boots with no problems.
> I then took yet another hard drive off another XP system I have and it
> too would not load XP on the P5AD2 board.
> I can boot XP off the CD-Rom and go into 'repair mode' and get a dos
> shell started. chkdsk reports no errors.
> I took yet another IDE hard drive and connected it to the P5AD2 board
> and tried to install XP on it.
> However, during the XP inspection phase, XP crashes with a system
> failure message.
> I've tried re-seating the Kingston RAM in another slot, yet the same
> problem occurs.
>
> Any clues?
> Thanks in advance

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

XP does not like you swapping motherboards or video cards in some cases. I had
a similar problem when trying to replace a video card. Constant reboots with
the new card. To get it to work I had to boot from the Win XP CD and do a
"Repair" install.


>Subject: Re: P5AD2 booting problems with XP
>From: jbenjam@gmail.com (Benjamin)
>Date: 11/17/2004 10:47 AM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <c318e46.0411170747.36e33cc0@posting.google.com>
>
>Does it ever get to the "graphics" part of the XP bootup? I'm
>wondering if it's the video card having a problem. Try adjusting some
>of the BIOS video card related settings.
>
>-Ben
>
>steve_faehn@coxtarget.com (Stephen Faehn) wrote in message
>news:<39045114.0411150557.30ed44c8@posting.google.com>...
>> I've put together a new system with the following configuration :
>>
>> Ultra X-Connect 500W ATX PS w/2 80mm Fans
>> Intel P4 550 3.4Ghz 1MB Cache 800fsb SocT 775 HT
>> Speeze Sckt 775 Intel Prescott 3.4GHz Cooling Fan
>> Asus P5AD2 Premium Socket 775 Motherboard
>> Kingston 1024MB PC4200 DDR2 533MHZ
>> Abit Radeon X600 XT 256mb PCIe w/DVI & TV Out
>> Maxtor IDE 30GB Hard drive
>> Some older CD-Rom
>> Windows XP
>>
>>
>> The PSU has only a 20-pin power connection, but I have read on this
>> group that this is ok.
>> The hard drive is configured as the primary master, the CD-ROM device
>> is slave.
>> The machine powers up ok, I can get into the BIOS (1008 version) and
>> see the devices.
>> The BIOS also recongnises the 1024 RAM. The manual supports the
>> Kingston memory.
>> I haven't made any changes to the BIOS.
>> The Hard Drive came out of my older machine which has an ASUS socket
>> 487 mother board.
>> However, when XP starts up on the P5AD2 board, XP hangs and then the
>> system reboots.
>> Upon restarting, I try and boot XP in 'Safe Mode' and it too causes
>> the system to reboot.
>> I've taken the Hard Drive off the P5AD2 and placed it back in my older
>> ASUS board and there it boots with no problems.
>> I then took yet another hard drive off another XP system I have and it
>> too would not load XP on the P5AD2 board.
>> I can boot XP off the CD-Rom and go into 'repair mode' and get a dos
>> shell started. chkdsk reports no errors.
>> I took yet another IDE hard drive and connected it to the P5AD2 board
>> and tried to install XP on it.
>> However, during the XP inspection phase, XP crashes with a system
>> failure message.
>> I've tried re-seating the Kingston RAM in another slot, yet the same
>> problem occurs.
>>
>> Any clues?
>> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

 

[mm]

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"Stephen Faehn" <steve_faehn@coxtarget.com> wrote in message
news:39045114.0411150557.30ed44c8@posting.google.com...
>
> I took yet another IDE hard drive and connected it to the P5AD2 board
> and tried to install XP on it.
> However, during the XP inspection phase, XP crashes with a system
> failure message.

If haven't fixed it yet, what is the message?

/MM