Hardware SOS

Red-PlagueRed-Plague
edited October 2003 in Hardware
OK, long story short...

Am building a machine for a friend, with the following hardware-

AMD 2500 Barton XP (New)
Asus A7N8X-X Mobo (n-force) (New)
2 x 512 Mb Paired TwinMOS PC3200 RAM (New)
400 watt power supply
Standard CDROM
Radeon 9800 Graphics
120 Gb Western Digital HD

Machine lights up and was able to set the bios settings to get correct CPU settings. Booted of CDROM (Win XP SP2) and the blue start-up screen runs (press f6 for RAID drivers etc... u know the one).

As soon as it gets to "Starting Windows...." on the startup screen blue screen, the machine either crashes or reboots. It usually says "Hardware Fault - Please conact vendor etc.."

I have tried diffrent RAM in the machine and get the same problem. Its really starting to annoy me... any ideas anyone?

CPU temp is below 50 degrees. I think its the mobo but it runs ok till u try and install windows....

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

Comments

  • StalkerStalker
    edited October 2003
    is it starting to access the hd when it crashes?
  • stoopidstoopid Albany, NY New
    edited October 2003
    Try a different vid card if you haven't already. Remove any unnecessary PCI cards as well.
  • Red-PlagueRed-Plague
    edited October 2003
    All unnessecary pci cards have been removed... I am going to try a different vid card today...

    I think it does crash when it trys to access the HD, but I have tried 3 different HD's and the bios recognises all 3 correctly...

    Will try a few things tonight...
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