Hardware strangeness

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Brand new motherboard Gigabyte GA-VM900M with Socket 775 CPU in it P4 3.0Ghz. and 512megs ram. Oddities happening all over this installation made me doubt the thing is working right.

So, I decided to get out a brand new hard drive that has never been used before, install XP fresh on it and install the motherboard drivers thereafter. All APPEARS OK but when you do something requiring a lot of mucking about, it sometimes dies. This is EXACTLY what happened with the computer before under its own CPU and motherboard and older XP installation. I thought the case may be busted because some fool who put the computer together used the "case open" warning attachment on the motherboard to shove the leads that show only power is on and the motherboard original in it had slowly degraded to the point where it started throwing up errors that didn't make any sense.

Therefore, there I am with brand new case, brand new motherboard, brand new CPU, brand new HD and brand new ram and I install XP fresh. When it finishes, all seems OK but the one thing that would kill the old machine reliably was to do a chkdsk /r and command and reboot and let it do that. It would get all the way through to test 5 of 5 and do that 100% and just when it was supposed to reboot, wouldn't. It would, instead, blue screen with an IRCL error "not equal to" or something along that sort of wording. So I did that chkdsk /r with what is basically all new machinery and sure enough, same problem. I figured the motherboard was probably wrecked because I put it in the old case in the first place so put a new motherboard in a new case and put new ram in it again and installed XP fresh all over again and did the chkdsk /r on it again and same problem. However, boot off the XP CD and go to the first repair prompt and do chkdsk /r there and it completes with no errors and doesn't blue screen.

So has anyone any ideas why this is going on please? I think my eyes are crossed and I cant see an answer because of that now because I cant see any sense in it.

Any help appreciated.

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