What could be wrong?

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Mate of mine bought a new mobo, CPU and ram.

AMD 6core, AM3 DDR3 Mobo and 1600 DDR3 4gig.

Installed it into his case with existing Hard drive, IDE DVDrw, 700w PSU. Using onboard GPU.

Every time he gets to installing devices on XP the pc crashes with a blue screen!.

Tried different CPU, HD and ram. Still the same. Tried with WIN7. It just hangs.

He had the mobo replaced. Still the same!!!

Could it be a faulty DVDRW unit? Bit unusual if the 2nd mobo was kaput. Help!!

Cheers
 
PSU would cause it to stop at installing devices and blue screen? It stops at the same point everytime. Also, CPU is not overheating. It runs fine.
 
Admiral Huddy said:
Well if everything was working before then the cupltrit is likely to be the new hardware.

However, check your is your PSU is functioning as expected. Use my guide here:
http://www.huddysworld.co.uk/index....rking&catid=40:techie-talk-hardware&Itemid=72

Have you connected the 4/8 pin Aux CPU power? Make sure both the ATX 24-pin and 4/8- pin Aux CPU power are connected and secure.. as per my guide..

4pin connected both secure

If your PSU is ok, then check your RAM modules by using MEMTEST86+.

PSU tested with a PSU Tester and in another case. All ok. Ram modules tested in another PC and all fine

Check the manufacturers website for recommended voltage and timings etc.

Both correct

Try running your system with one stick of RAM at a time and try that stick in different slots. If the RAM stick fails in all slots, then its almost certainly a RAM problem. If the working RAM stick works in one slot but not another, then this is looking at a memory controller problem. This could be CPU or Motherboard depending on the platform

Again, we tried that and all ok.
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Could it be a faulty DVDRW Drive? Can't understand why it stops at exactly the same point all the time (Installing Devices)



Many thanks for ideas.
 
I put his CPU, Ram and HD in my PC as i have exactly the same Mobo and all worked fine. He sent off the Mobo and had it replaced as faulty. The 2nd one he had is also showing up the same problems as the first!!
 
He is bringing it over later for me to try my board in his case.

My PSU is a bog standard 500w one. Not sure about his, think it is a Corsair model.

So, no chance it could be a faulty DVDRW?

He thinks that it is his version of XP as it only has SP1 on the CD. I can't see it being that. As i said earlier, i tried Win7 and it just froze after a while!
 
The board supports 1600Mhz and i also tried my 1600Mhz and same problem.

As stated, he has a 700w Corsair PSU, i have a bog standard PSU and his components work fine on my mobo which is the same as the one he is having issues with.

How would a faulty PSU blue screen at the point of 'Installing Devices' in XP, every time?

It does sound like a faulty batch to me.
 
But surely it is not being stresses differently from starting to install XP to when it gets to the point of installation when it is installing 'Devices'?
 
As stated earlier, i ran them in my PC with no problems.

How does the power usage change when installing the software? I don't see it myself. Surely it is not being stressed when XP gets to installing devices?
 
So the power will rise enough, when installing the software to cause a blue screen? It is only installing the OS. Nothing stressfull about that surely? I don't know.

Worth trying a dif PSU then? Didn't think the PSU would ramp up while installing software.
 
It was the CD guys. He used a dif one supplied by his local PC shop, with SP3 on it and it worked fine!!
 
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