Random Restarts during windows installation and more

Booner!

Booner!

Booner!

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so starting building a rig for my dad with some 478 and AGP components from OcUk and competitors on the cheap :p :

P4 2.4ghz 1mb cache 478
Asus p4-p800 X 478
1GB elixer ram
X800 256mb agp
Tagan 420 i XEYE (blue LED model)
Gigabyte pro heatsink (120mm fan)
80GB seagate Hdd ide
DVD drive

all brand new and put together and wouldnt get any post or bleep. so then fiddled and got beep and then it froze in bios a few times then i couldnt get anything working. got past that by resetting CMOS but now i install windows and it crashes everytime i finish installation or load up windows. i havnt actually got into windows itself yet... cant even get into safe mode.

have tried new ram and re tried cabling, even stripped it all down to bare minimum...just need to figure what it is. my cousin has suggested dud PSU or currupt HDD.. but its soo random i dunno, it can install windows fine sometimes and then crash others...

ANY thoughts will be appreicated!!!! cheers guys!
 
mostly freeze, after clearing CMOS it sometimes restarts.... :confused:

i have never had this with pc building before, to be honest i have tried every trick in the book, even boot to cd so i can get around the restarts or crashes (freezes during the windows installation.)
 
yup, have tested new ram, and rechecked everything with a mate, i do this often but never had this problem...

i am borrowing a new PSU monday and will try that, if not, i think i got a duff harddrive.... :(
 
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