K8V locks up on OS install

[Kaliman]

After being delighted in discovering that the athlon 64 3000+ cpu that i thought was defective is not, I have run into another problem. Upon boot, once the hardware has been checked, the hard drive just randomly spins down and then back up again. During the windows xp install I get a blue screen randomly and the computer freezes. I have no idea why this is happening. I have a wd 250gb hard drive and it is set to master and is connected to the primary ide channel on the motherboard.

specs:
antec true blue 480 watt
mushkin pc3500 1gb
ati radeon 9800pro

 

[Schmide]

Could you have attached the HD to one of those fan only antec power leads? If not try changing the HD power lead.

Dichromatic for your viewing plesure...

 

[endyen]

What are your ram timings? Try relaxing them. Maybe up thier voltage a notch.

 

[Kaliman]

You once again gave the right advice, although lostcircuits gave me the idea of what exactly to lower. The memory won't run at trcd 2 for some reason. Everything runs fine when I set it to 3.

 

[TimBob5259]

I had the same problem with mushkin pc3500 level 2 memory on my A64. I could only use the system with it running at 166 mhz. I kept getting blue screens or missing file during windows installation.

I replaced it with corsair memory and everything is fine and at the correct speed.