GA-7VRXP cannot install WinXP

[davidlovatt]

bought this motherboard over the web last week.

I have :

NVidia AGP TNT2 Graphics card, 32mb onboard

DDR333 (PC2700)
Excel Stor 40Mb HDD
AMD XP1700 CPU

I have taken everything else (DVD etc.. off the system)

I cannot setup windows, it crashes with various (and differing) STOP errors.

Win XP builds the list of files to be copied, then crashes as it starts to copy them.

It crashed, though, at different occassions and on one occasion it copied 100% of the files and crashed when it restarted.

Some of the errors include “IRQL not equal or less”, or “page fault in non paged area”.

I changed the HDD and the same things happen.

I returned the memory to the shop and it tested fine.

I removed everything but the very barest of CD-ROMs and the problems still persist.

The Win XP disk is Home Edition OEM, came with previous system. (replacing that with this one).

The BIOS does not have options to disable caching or shadowing as the error message suggests.

I have tried various BIOS options including fail safe and optimzed…….still the same.

I moved the hard drive to another machine and setup win XP on that one, which worked fined. I moved the HDD over to the new machine. It booted, then restarted at various times once logged into winxp.

I switched off autorestart to view the error, and it was in windows sub system.

HELP......

 

[silverpig]

Can you return the motherboard for testing? I've got that same board and it works fine for me.

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