reveille_83 Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Hi all. Great forum you have here. I am having a small problem with my newly built system. The specs include: DFI: NF4 SLI-DR motherboard AMD 4000+ Processor ( ZALMAN CNPS7000B-CU 92mm 2 Ball Cooling Fan ) OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Platinum System Memory 2x Maxtor 300 GIG SATA 16mb cache hard drives BFG 6800 GT PCIx SoundBlaster Audigy 2 oem Pioneer A09 DVD BURNER NOTE: I have yet to update bios. so i'm currently using the bios that it came with straight out of the box ( i don't know the revision number because i am at work at the moment) The first problem i noticed that when trying to install windows Xp it was extremely slow booting off of the cd.. loading the files neccessary for setup.. (i tried a different cd-rom) Once i finally get into setup. i do a Quick format FOR NTFS.. and right after it starts to load files neccessary for the XP setup it crashes into a blue screen.. Any help is greatly appreciated. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc_519 Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Are you installing XP with SP2 Slipstreamed into it? Im not sure if that will solve your problem, but you could give it a try. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
reveille_83 Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 yes i have XP with SP2 integrated.. and using that to install. edit: i am fairly literate so don't be afraid to throw something out there that is advance. to my experience something tells me it's out dated bios conflicting with the memory or the memory sticks are faulty? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
killerjay_47 Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Have you tested your memory for stability using memtest? That's where I would start. You may also want to flash up to the 3-10 bios because there is a minor bug or two in the 1-25 (the shipping bios). J Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
reveille_83 Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 are you able to run problems like mem test and flash bios off of cdroms now? *tries to find floppy disk* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
reveille_83 Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 killerjay: has it been confirmed that the shipping bios is unstable with certain manufacturers of memory sticks? ie.. my memory might not be stable with the current bios version and upgrading could solve the problem? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsifal Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 My suggestion is to go out and buy a floppy drive they with multi memory card reader .They can be had for $20-$30 down load the 310 bios and flash your mb.Like killerjay 47 said run memtest after the bios flash 310 has memtest loaded onto it under the Genie settings.Good luck Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oliveryochest Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 make a sig so we don't have to keep scrolling up to see what you have. What, no PSU listed??? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
reveille_83 Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 how is this? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oliveryochest Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Check your bios version. It will be in the lower left corner of your display when it starts posting. You will need to disable the logo splash screen first. Go into bios and under advanced bios features, scroll to the bottom, set "full screen logo show" to disable, and Save (f10). You need at least 310 bios version. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
reveille_83 Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 i updated the bios still no go.. still slow as molasses when trying to load xp off of cd.. any other suggestions bios settings? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 do a search within these forums for your Pioneer DVD...ive seen others with this problem... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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