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got my new full system on tuesday and have put it together but it doesnt boot to windows at all. Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 and the hard disk is a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 SATAII 320GB ive tried other IDE drives on it too but they are both the same it gets past the first boot page and then says boot error. any ideas as im rather stuck

Oh and yes ive tried installing windows on it and it gets through the blue screen set up part but when it restarts at the end it just comes up with the same error, and its not showing the full 320gb on the Partition page it just says 130
 
did you install the SATA/RAID drivers for the moherboard on Windows setup, the part where you press F6 ?
 
done both m8, on the other drive with window on it will get past the boot up page but it comes up with the "Windows did not shut down properly" then you have the safe mode options when you pick one it just restarts and does the same thing again. You think its a mobo problem?
 
would have thought so, if you know the other HDDs to be in good working order, also the fact its happening with IDE and SATA drives, sounds like its a bad mobo - although I'd check the DS3 owners thread in the mobo section to see if there is anyone else having this same problem.
 
seems a bit high, would have thought more around 30'c idle, is that stock cooler?

although if its a faulty mobo I wouldnt trust that reading anyway

catch 22 really, only way to be sure would be if you could lay your hands on another LGA775 C2D compliant mobo.
 
for that CPU cooler I would say the temp is deffo a bit high - I dont know what the shutdown temps for the CPU you have is, but I would seriously think you have a bad contact there or something wrong with it.

memtest is a good idea, or try some diff ram in there, an error such as you describe would not be generally linked to temperature, so does narrow it down to a faulty piece of hardware somewhere along the line.
 
Try just one stick of RAM and try it in different slots :) I had this problem a while ago and it turned out to be a dead Maxtor hard drive but if it occurs with other drives too, it could possibly be a faulty motherboard :(

EDIT: Also try installing windows with the least amount of hardware installed as possible- ie, one stick of RAM, GPU, CPU PSU, HDD, one optical drive and motherboard :cool:

EDIT2: Do you have a floppy drive installed? If so, take it out and disable it in the BIOS, if not, make sure the controller is disabled in BIOS :) You may have to slipstream the SATA drivers though if windows can't find any.
 
HEAT IS MY ENEMY!!!!!

The motherboard chipset cooler is HOT!!!
BIOS says system temp = 45c
CPU temp = 42c

this is before I get windows on and without any overclocking......!###

Im going to refit the CPU to see if there is a problem but to me thats way too hot for both temps...... we've just built an athlon 3800+ x2 that runs much cooler than that.
 
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler, we finally got into windows and ran CoreTemp and that said 37c idle (each core) so I think the mother board temperature is quite a few degrees out. 36 still seems high with that fan though. should I set *** bios fan control to auto or Pwm

We bought the geil 2gb DDR2 that was advertised on this week only (last week) and I have some reservations about how genuine the speed is on these sticks, the SPD settings (according to CPU-Z and the BIOS optimized settings) rate it as 667mhz and 5-5-5, not 800mhz with 4-5-5 lo latency as advertised, I am dissapointed to say the least... I am running it at 800 but had to set it manually in the bios..
 
Slowly getting there... ... .. .

Well this is the worst build I've ever done (webmonkeys bro here now), even worse than the DEC alphas running Open VMS I worked with a few years ago, still I expected it trying to set up a system using 2 week old hardware.

I have disabled fan control in *** CPU, I recon it was running a little slow and thats what was causing the trouble, it was only getting up to about 800RPM, more temperature differentiation from applications though...
-- the gigabyte easytune hardware monitor says the CPU temp = 29
-- the BIOS says 46 (after a reboot)
-- core temp utility says 38

Ran prime 95 with ram set to 800mhz,, PC crashed and rebooted every time I tried it (usually after about 10 seconds).... I altered memory speed through the BIOS to 667mhz (PC5300), ran prime 95, didnt crash but a hardware failure was detected saying it had calculated an incorrect result. The system doesnt seem to randomly reset now though, which is a start....


The dim voltage is not overclocked in anyway, does it need to be to run the 1gb x 2 geil 6400 low latency ddr2?

Were running BIOS F3 in the DS3... heard bad things about the F4 betas so were avoiding them..

FYI:: we manged to get windows up and running by using a version with SP2 + others slipstreamed, wouldnt get very far with our original version of windows which was pre SP1....

Cheers for your help guys, keep the suggestions coming 'cos im sure this thing is gonna take over my weekend + Im going to clock my own athkon x2 up a little as well after running it stably for a few weeks now....
 
Well just looking at the original post again- the 137GB is a limit of the original version of xp and SP1 fixes that. The BIOS **should** have the most accurate temperature readings but I'm not sure in this case as that seems very hot. It's starting now to sound like either a faulty motherboard or faulty RAM but the faulty motherboard may be caued by a dodgey BIOS so you may well have to wait for a stable release of the next BIOS to see if that helps. Try running memtest86 as well as the RAM sounds like it's causing stability problems so at least running memtest can rule that out :)
 
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