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someguy7   08-13-2009 at 11:21:28 PM

After I put everything together and powered it up everything looked fine. Temps in upper 30s C in BIOS fans spinning and everything seemed normal. So I go to install the OS and this where my problems are.

No matter what OS I try to install it hangs somewhere during the install process. xp32/vista64/win7RC1 64. Ubuntu 8.04 64 hanged on the live cd boot. I have switched out the the optical drive to 3 differnt ones. My drive(which I know is messed up due to recently failed burn verifications) didnt work. I switched out the burner to my friends burner from a machine I built in 2008. Reburned the linux cd with it and used the different burner in the x3 machine and still the same result. I am currently downloading and burning memtest( Cant to seem to find it in my stacks of cdr/dvdrs). Going to run that on the amd machine. Also thinking about hooking up the hdd from the amd system to my machine to format/check for errors. This has been driving me nuts since yesterday. Its a real pain because I only have one monitor/key&mouse/burner and have to keep switching back and forth.


System specs
. Antec Sonata III 500 Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 500W Power Supply - Retail
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - OEM
HIS H467QSS1GP Radeon HD 4670 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail
AMD Phenom II X3 710 2.6GHz Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core Processor Model HDX710WFGIBOX - Retail
MSI 770-C45 AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model CT2KIT25664BA1339 - Retail
The PSU is antec earthwatts 500 that comes with the case.

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Bronze CPUs badge MU_Engineer   08-14-2009 at 12:56:39 AM

I would boot the Ubuntu CD and select the "check memory" option at the loading screen. Your RAM could be bad if you get random errors while installing OSes.

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someguy7   08-14-2009 at 02:08:20 AM

Thats what I'm going to do and see what happens. Also going to run memtest overnight. After about 30 times of trying various OS's It finally installed vista64 but its very very unstable with all the lastest drivers installed. Looks like this Ram will be RMA'd. If its not the ram then I'm really clueless.

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Bronze CPUs badge MU_Engineer   08-14-2009 at 04:49:51 AM

someguy7 wrote :

Thats what I'm going to do and see what happens. Also going to run memtest overnight. After about 30 times of trying various OS's It finally installed vista64 but its very very unstable with all the lastest drivers installed. Looks like this Ram will be RMA'd. If its not the ram then I'm really clueless.



If something will run but isn't stable, RAM is always a culprit. It may not even be bad- it may just be running at improper timings, speeds, or voltages. If you have anything overclocked, set it back at stock as overclocking is probably the worst culprit for erratic behavior. Overheating is #2, although your temps look fine. Power supply issues can cause subtle errors as well, but you have a good quality PSU that's plenty large and new, so that should not be a problem for you. I'd stick with running a few passes of Memtest.

------------------------------ Upcoming Overdue Build: Dual-socket workstation, ~32 GB DDR3, OS on a fast SSD, high-end GPU, all wrapped up in a huge tower case. Coming H2 2011.

Yes, I am actually still running the Pentium III 1.0B Coppermine in the picture.
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xaira   08-14-2009 at 03:44:58 PM

yeh, what ^ said, it could be bad voltages and timings, if there are specifications for the ram on the packaging, set the ram in the bios to those specifications, if that dosent work, try inserting the sticks 1 by 1 , if that dosent work, get new ram

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xaira   08-14-2009 at 03:45:49 PM

another manufacturer preferably, some manufacturers products just dont mix

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someguy7   08-15-2009 at 01:45:29 AM

The ram passed 6 passes of memtest. Anybody know how to enable to the voltage tweaking on this board. I see it in the BIOS but its grey'd and I cant change it.

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