Error installing any Os

[Darkninja462]

When installing any Os onto my Abit AN8 (s939) I get a crash out and restart in Xp and vista errors out and BSOD's, any ideas anyone ?
Its the latest Bios version aswell
and tried the disks on other machines and there fine.

Might be the motherboard as its new into the system only £16 so though it was a bargin

Spec:
AMD 64 4200+
2gb Kingston Ram 4x 512mb
Nvidia 8400GS
Maxtor 120gb HDD


Many Thanks

Ninja

 

[RJC]

Try only one stick of ram at a time and see how that goes.

 

[Theguy]

yea what RJC sounds a good idea. personally i would say its the ram playing silly buggers.

 

[siumatfung]

yeh my mate had the same problem just wouldnt install anythign with more thatn 2sticks of RAM installed

 

[J.B]

Probably is the RAM.

If you are still having problems you might want to try disabling hardware in the BIOS and installing like that. Then reenable when its rebooted.

 

[Darkninja462]

what should I disable in the bios like which hardware ?

and I'll try the one stick of RAM thing again.

Thanks for all your help

Ninja

 

[J.B]

Try that RAM first as it is most likely but in the past I've had to disable network controllers, sound cards, serial ports and anything like that. Then once the OS is installed reactivate them one at a time?

Have you got any additional hardware in like PCI sound cards or NIC?

 

[Darkninja462]

nope it is barebone system just gfx card, it dosen't have on board sound either but I will try it later.


Ninja

 

[deusexlumina]

id say you need to up your nb voltage a bit, you have 4 sticks of ram in there and socket 939 cpus are well know for issues with 4 sticks. Also make sure your RAM voltage is up to scratch, most MB's set it to 1.8, it should be around 2.0/2.1

 

[Darkninja462]

ok thanks ill try that, ive tried one stick of ram (which I know is perfectly fine) and still to no avail I'll try the voltage settings later on today

Many Thanks

Ninja