Mathematiker3 Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 My new PC: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice DFI LANparty UT nF4 Ultra-D, nForce4 Infineon-Chip/Orig 512MB PC3200 DDR CL3 (2x) Club-3D Radeon X800 XL, 256M Samsung SpinPoint P120 250GB SATA II DVD-ROM Plextor PX-130A be quiet Blackline P5 470W ATX 2.0 I can't install Win2k or WinXP. When I boot the installation CDs (with newest SP) the computer freezes during the system check of the windows setup programm. I don't even get to the point there I can install the SATA drivers. To check whether it is a hardware problem I startet a Knoppix CD (bootable Linux CD, runs Linux without installation to harddisc). And it worked. No problem with Linux. Then I tried to install WinXP64. This worked, too. So, the hardware seems to be ok. But why can't I install WinXP or Win2k. Is there any trick behind that? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire-N-Ice Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 scratched cd(s)? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathematiker3 Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 scratched cd(s)? No, the CDs are fine. No scratches at all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharp Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 Hello, Did you plug all 4 power connectors into the board? - Floppy one under the cpu socket - Hard drive one on top the chipset fan Does you video card require a power connector too? Make sure it is plugged in too. Have you tried memtest yet? - Run memtest - If you get any errors instantly stop - Set the memory voltage to 2.8v - Run memtest again. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kukulcan Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 Make sure that you have the latest version of the bios, that solved a lot of my problems with installing XP Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shard Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 kukulcan is right, try a bios update, it never hurt nobody, especially since your X800 XL is still a new card. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathematiker3 Posted July 31, 2005 Posted July 31, 2005 memtest is ok, I did that. The power connectors are ok. The video card power connector is plugged in, too. WinXP64 und Linux work fine, so the hardware should be ok. But I will try to update the Bios. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathematiker3 Posted July 31, 2005 Posted July 31, 2005 I updated the BIOS and what can I say, it worked like a charm. Win2k, WinXP - no problem any more. Thanks for the tip. Actually, I should have thought of that myself - stupid me :confused: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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