System rebooting now with new parts won't install XP

ROKnightROKnight
edited July 2005 in Hardware
My situation is;

I have an older 1.8gb P4 400mhz fsb, an ASUS P4S533 mobo, a maxtor 80gb hd, generic 512mb memory
stick, ATI Radeon 9800 se, mad dog dvd drive, 52x memorex cd burner, Star
Logic 250 w + 12v 10a power supply

Recently I took my computer to a friends house and left it there running
overnight. (He refuses to use his a/c and his house reached 97 degrees that
night) Unfortunately, my computer was undercooled at the time, which has
since been remedied.

The next morning my computer was locked on the windows loading screen. A
few times, I was able to reboot into windows, but the computer would randomly
reboot repeatedly. I tried troubleshooting by swapping out parts to see if
overheating was an issue.
Eventually I decided to reformat my drive and reinstall windows because I
began receiving numerous 'blue screens of death'. (0x000000D1, 0x75807CA2,
0x00000002, 0x00000000, and 0x0000007E) Now, my system locks on 'Windows is
starting' during XP install. The computer posts fine and reads the XP disc
fine but locks on the same step every time. I tried 3 different licensed
copies of XP, 4 different cd/burners/dvd drives. I swapped in another known
to be good hard drive and tried to load from the XP cd. This time i got read
errors on the hd. I swapped in another hard drive with XP installed, and it
will not load into windows. I've also swapped the memory with two good 256mb dual channel ddr sticks with no change.
I also installed a brand new ASUS P4S800 mobo today to no avail...
Any and ALL suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.

Added an Antec 350w power supply. No change. Also tried disabling any
unneccessary options in bios and have only the memory, processor, hard drive
and cd drive reading the XP disc connected. Still no change...
Finally updated the bios via ASUS's web site but there was no new development in my dilemma.

Thanks,
Shin

Comments

  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited July 2005
    BAD XP CD????

    Bad CPU???
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited July 2005
    Go to Maxtor's website and download the PowerMax HD diagnostic tool. Memtest86 would be a good idea as well, even if you're "sure" the ram is good. :)
  • ROKnightROKnight
    edited July 2005
    Well, I finally found out what the problem was....... and it was the first thing I checked when the computer first went down... it was the memory. I had swapped another good 512mb stick for the one that was suspect but it had the same problem... until I finally happened to put in two 256mb dual channel sticks in, now the computer is perfectly fine ARGH! So, a new motherboard and a new ps later, I have my computer back. Thanks for all the suggestions and tips.

    Shin :wtf:
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