Some may remember I was asking if my temps were fine on my mobo, but now that is the least of my worries.
I was due to do my final install of XP (after months of changing my rig), and tested the system to about 6 hrs stable on prime so nowt would go wrong. Downloaded all the latest drivers onto my other partion ready for the fresh install.
Problem 1
Bunged in the XP Pro CD, format, install and freeze - always on the '34 minutes remaining' mark! I also tried a copy of XP Home to see how that'd cope and again after '34 minute' remaining it'ss just freeze.
Problem 2
Ok, so i thought perhaps my system wasnt as stable as I thought, so i bumped it down to 2.2Gig @ 1.7 volts which I am more than 100% sure is perfectly stable, and still he same problem at the 34th minute reamining. Then loaded all the original settings (11x166 @ 1.45v) ad the problem dint go away. On this, i thought perhaps I might have changed something in the bios that causing the problem, so I set failsafe defaults and F10'ed saved and watched it restart....... and nothing happened.
I switched it off and on again and the "Do not reset the computer.. blah blah ..bios flashing in progress.. blah blah" screen was up, and then it reset.... and nothing.
Did the same as before (switched it off and on again) but this time nothing happened. Im not sure if the bios is bust since it still responds to the 'hold down for 5 seconds' off thing, but I didnt beep when I didnt have any RAM in it. Ive tried clearing the CMOS, removing the battery and switching off my PSU (in various combinations and about 10 - 20 minutes before a retry). I had a similar problem to this when i used to overclock my old RAM to much, and that was remedied by placing the mobo on the metal side of the case - i picked that up from nforcershq forums on recommendation for the Asus a7n8x deluxe - but that did not work this time.
If anyone has any answers to either problem, I'd really appreciate any feedback - thanks in advance![]()


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