Re: Building problem XP freezing on install
From: Ken (salsamac795_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/02/04
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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 02:03:45 -0500
yes I had same prob the other day.it was a memory imcompatability with winxp
apparenlty.because I successfully loaded win98 on the drive just to see if
it wasn't a corrupt xp cd.the company I bought mb and mem from told me that
yes that mem brand seemed to have a prob so I put in a different memory
brand and it worked fine..another issue on another computer was that plug n
play os wasn't selected in the bios.
regards
"Clayton" <claytonbNOSPAM@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message
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> First of all, see if there is a BIOS update then update the BIOS,
> Secondly, Try installing XP with only one of the 512MB memory in it,
> that's if you 2 x 512MB chips, sounds like a memory fault or
> incompatibility issue with the MB.
>
>
>
> "spt45" <spt45@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4C6520A5-30DF-4BBC-95C5-92079CD9001F@microsoft.com...
>>I started building this computer about a day or two ago. The main
>>components
>> I used are:
>>
>> Motherboard:
>> http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=13-157-034&depa=0
>>
>> P4 2.4C 512k 800fsb
>>
>> 1 gig 3200 ddr
>>
>> 80 gig Samsung 7200 ata 133
>>
>> And the rest of the components I scrapped from an old computer.
>>
>> Everything was going smoothly until I was trying to put the heatsink on
>> the
>> cpu (after I applied the thermal compound). I thought the heatsink was
>> set
>> perfectly on the cpu so I flipped the latch on one side, the side that
>> was
>> set properly, and let my friend, his first build, do the other side. He
>> was
>> struggling pushed to hard and broke the latch. We realized the heatsink
>> wasn't on properly and took it off. We then reset the heatsink on top of
>> the
>> cpu and struggled to turn the broken latch over so it would lock. We
>> were
>> successful but in the process we used a lot of force on the heatsink and
>> cpu.
>> Im afraid that maybe something could be wrong with that. Then we
>> continued
>> to build and everything went smoothly. We turned the computer on for the
>> first time and everything looked good. We went into BIOS and set all of
>> the
>> proper settings for our configuration. Then we tried to install the
>> operating system, win xp sp2. It loaded up fine and then we got to the
>> point
>> where we wanted to partition the drive so we could install the OS. We
>> hit
>> enter on the regular (not quick) option and the computer froze. We let
>> it
>> sit for a while and then we realized that everything we tried was futile.
>> We
>> turned the computer off and then rebooted up the computer and it gave us
>> the
>> message "error loading operating system". We then tried a boot disk in
>> the
>> floppy drive which was unsuccessful. We put the win xp boot disk in the
>> computer to try and boot from that, but every time the computer would
>> automatically restart as it began working with the disk. Then we brought
>> the
>> hd to a different computer and put it as the slave drive. We were able
>> to
>> erase that partition and then tried to install xp on it from the other
>> computer. Xp was then installed on the computer and we put it back in
>> the
>> new computer, it didn't work, it wanted me to put in the win xp boot
>> disk.
>> We then reformatted the hd and deleted the partition again. We put it
>> back
>> in the new computer and tried to install xp once more. We were able to
>> do
>> what we weren't able to before and partition the drive, but once xp
>> started
>> copying its files to the hd, it froze again. What is causing the
>> computer to
>> keep freezing? Could it be the problem with the cpu/heatsink or is it
>> something completely different? I've never seen anything like this
>> before
>> and I don't think it's a hardware issue. Any help is much appreciated!
>> Thanks!
>>
>
>
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