Baffled with new build

PinkFloyd

PinkFloyd

PinkFloyd

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Building a pc for a mate, main use is uni work, which involves various writeups, research and some 3d work. Spec as follows:

G0 stepping Q6600
Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2
2gig value ram
X300se
200g Sata harddrive
sata dvdrw
Antec NSK 4480B
-with 380W Earth Watts psu.


Everything was going well, booted first time checked everything in bios, dead quiet system.
Start installing XP, get to where setup needs to restart the system, hit enter to restart rather than waiting 15 seconds, system posts, and just hangs on a blank screen.

Tried various things with boot priority, reset the bios and nothing. Won't load anything from the harddrive, try to go and boot from the disc, it pops up saying "scanning hardware" and just hangs on a blank screen again.


Completely lost as to what is wrong with it, one thought was the bios might not support g0 stepping chips, but can't find anything to confirm that, and I wouldn't have expected a windows install to got as far or maybe the system not even booting if that was the case.


Anyone got any pointers of things I may have missed?
 
Aw was hoping for 2 helpfull posts then :(

Going to try an IDE dvd drive and maybe an ide harddrive and see if that gets anywhere. ot other ram I can try again, don't have another graphics card I can test with at the moment though I don't think. *rummages*
 
Thanks guys, got a few things to try now atleast. Think I have a spare card I can try out somewhere, might end up picking up one of the ocuk IP35 boards.
 
I'm looking at installing vista on my main rig :p

Mainly as I can install raid drivers from usb rather than requiring a floppy like XP :D
 
Seems I have found the problem.

Installed vista 64bit business without an issue last night with some spare hardware in it. So its not the motherboard. Ran alrite with a gig of DDR1 ram, a 20gig 5400rpm harddrive, and a 4mb ATI AGP card.
Swapped back to the X300se I had in there, no boot. Problem apparently solved. Card worked fine a month ago in another rig, so its either died since, has a conflict with this motherboard, or its a dodgy PCIe slot on the motherboard.

Time to get around to installing on the harddrive he is meant to be having :) - and then a graphics upgrade as soon as I get a replacement card. Doubt I'll even find drivers for this old ATI card, not even sure of the model.
 
This is getting progressively more confusing.

Swapped out the graphics card and went to install again...
It doesn't seem to like the harddrive I have either, vista won't install onto the 200gig 7200.10 drive I have. tried it in both sata and sata 2 mode.
The odd thing is without a problem, I installed vista onto this drive on my main rig. It worked great.
Thinking maybe sata harddrives don't work, I tried one of my new 7200.11 drives, vista installed on it fine.

Strange conflict after strange conflict, I've not been so lost since I first got my DFI Ultra-D a few years back :p

I had another of these motherboards in the summer and it was flawless, yet this thing seems more fussy than an Ultra-D on a release bios :eek:
 
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