Frustrated P4R800-VM owner

I have just put together the above board with P4 3ghz Northwood and 2 x
256mb of kingston pc3200 (single sided) ram
a samsung spinpoint 160gb drive and nec2500 dvd rw
No matter what I try I cannot get winxp to install , all I get is various
blue screens part way through install
either IRQ errors or memory page faults , I have no other h/w installed yet
and have run memtest+ extensively which shows all ok

Can anyone point me in right direction

Thanks

Can anyone point me in right direction


If you tell us more, perhaps. How is the HDD and the DVD connected, etc etc.

HD drive connected on primary ide , dvd on secondary both as master
Both dimms installed in blue sockets as per manual and are certified as per
manual



"Frank.Schmidt" wrote in message
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Can anyone point me in right direction


If you tell us more, perhaps. How is the HDD and the DVD connected, etc
etc.

"Jim" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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HD drive connected on primary ide , dvd on secondary both as master
Both dimms installed in blue sockets as per manual and are certified as
per
manual


How do you setup the HDD 1 largg partition? Thats it. I have the same
Samsung and it does not like 1 160 GB partition. Neither does Windows like
any partion greater than 80 gigs on that hdd. Try to create 2 partitions
with 80 gigs, worked for me. better 3 partitions 40 60 60 on the 40 gigs
install windows

The version of Win XP I am installing includes SP1 so this should not be a
problem


"Frank.Schmidt" wrote in message
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"Jim" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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HD drive connected on primary ide , dvd on secondary both as master
Both dimms installed in blue sockets as per manual and are certified as
per
manual


How do you setup the HDD 1 largg partition? Thats it. I have the same
Samsung and it does not like 1 160 GB partition. Neither does Windows like
any partion greater than 80 gigs on that hdd. Try to create 2 partitions
with 80 gigs, worked for me. better 3 partitions 40 60 60 on the 40 gigs
install windows

The version of Win XP I am installing includes SP1 so this should not be a
problem

I thought that, too. Proofed me wrong. I got ALL updates, ALL patches. BANG
cost me 4 installs.

Now it works. If you want me to send you the 128GB patch tell me.

just tried with a 20gb partition , same problem


"Frank.Schmidt" wrote in message
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The version of Win XP I am installing includes SP1 so this should not be
a
problem

I thought that, too. Proofed me wrong. I got ALL updates, ALL patches.
BANG
cost me 4 installs.

Now it works. If you want me to send you the 128GB patch tell me.

just tried with a 20gb partition , same problem


Thats too bad, then I´ll say you have a hardware problem. What are your
settings in the bios for PNP. Try disabling PNP OS to NO and deactivate all
internals like sound and network conotroller.

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 21:17:16 +0100, "Jim" wrote:

I have just put together the above board with P4 3ghz Northwood and 2 x
256mb of kingston pc3200 (single sided) ram
a samsung spinpoint 160gb drive and nec2500 dvd rw
No matter what I try I cannot get winxp to install , all I get is various
blue screens part way through install
either IRQ errors or memory page faults , I have no other h/w installed yet
and have run memtest+ extensively which shows all ok

Can anyone point me in right direction


It could be a ram problem. Check how fast the ram runs. It should run
no faster than 200 MHz or DDR400.
It can also be incompatible ram. Check asus site and see what the
report as compatible. Asus can be finicky with ram.

I saw ram-faults once with an epox nforce 2. The bios choosed fsb 233
for ram, and I should prefer 166 (DDR333) for it. I corrected and
saved the bios, and that solved all problems. My ram could never make
fsb233, since it was pc2700.

Secondly if the harddisk is not new, I have seen that XP-install
checks for errors that no other disk-handling software can see. So the
medicine is: connect the harddisk as slave on another computer and
make partition checks in 'My computer' on it. Then install with no
errors detected.

Third: the chipset is much newer than XP. Is it necessary with some
IDE-drivers on a floppy ? One press F6 when scsi drivers are asked
for, and then load the drivers from floppy. Windows mentions all
external controllers as scsi, even if they are not scsi.

I also think it is a good idea to use a prepartioned harddisk. A 10
Gbyte partition is big enough for a c-drive, and it is easier to
back-up. Although SP1 is built-in, the software is probably still
loaded as last step, as a patch.

best regards

John

Just thought I'd let you all know it turned out to be CPU faulty , verified
by installing a 2.4 and install sailed through



"JK" (please reply to group, email invalid) wrote in message
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On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 21:17:16 +0100, "Jim" wrote:

I have just put together the above board with P4 3ghz Northwood and 2 x
256mb of kingston pc3200 (single sided) ram
a samsung spinpoint 160gb drive and nec2500 dvd rw
No matter what I try I cannot get winxp to install , all I get is various
blue screens part way through install
either IRQ errors or memory page faults , I have no other h/w installed
yet
and have run memtest+ extensively which shows all ok

Can anyone point me in right direction


It could be a ram problem. Check how fast the ram runs. It should run
no faster than 200 MHz or DDR400.
It can also be incompatible ram. Check asus site and see what the
report as compatible. Asus can be finicky with ram.

I saw ram-faults once with an epox nforce 2. The bios choosed fsb 233
for ram, and I should prefer 166 (DDR333) for it. I corrected and
saved the bios, and that solved all problems. My ram could never make
fsb233, since it was pc2700.

Secondly if the harddisk is not new, I have seen that XP-install
checks for errors that no other disk-handling software can see. So the
medicine is: connect the harddisk as slave on another computer and
make partition checks in 'My computer' on it. Then install with no
errors detected.

Third: the chipset is much newer than XP. Is it necessary with some
IDE-drivers on a floppy ? One press F6 when scsi drivers are asked
for, and then load the drivers from floppy. Windows mentions all
external controllers as scsi, even if they are not scsi.

I also think it is a good idea to use a prepartioned harddisk. A 10
Gbyte partition is big enough for a c-drive, and it is easier to
back-up. Although SP1 is built-in, the software is probably still
loaded as last step, as a patch.

best regards

John