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    p5q freeze while loading windows

    wardog, To determine whether your memory works or not, I suggest you run Memtest http://www.memtest.org/ when you boot up your machine. If you simply have WinXP installed on one of your sata drives which only has sata drivers for the previous motherboard then the machine will give you BSOD...
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    Asus P5Q Pro IDE Boot Problems! help?

    You are welcome. mispgl, Since my last post, I have pretty much narrowed down the problem. It is the memory issue. However, I'd like to provide more finding. I used memtest to check the Corsair memory DDR2-800 TWIN2X2048-6400C5DHX and guess what it did not pass any cycle. None! while my other...
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    p5q

    well.. i guess you are lucky. your memory is 1GB version of the cmx6400C5DHX. Mine is 2GB version, i haven't been able to use mine so far but i will give it a last try. Yeah, after you boot to Windows, get the Asus driver CD up and install the chipset driver, gigabit ethernet, then you are in...
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    p5q

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    Asus P5Q Pro IDE Boot Problems! help?

    Well... guess what it turned out to be the incompatibility between my Corsair Memory DDR2 800 TWIN2X2048-6400C5DHX and Asus P5Q PRO MB. Last night I tried a pair of Corsair DDR2 667 VS1GB667D2 and it worked! Windows XP loaded flawlessly so did Windows Vista. It is really good lesson for me as I...
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    Asus P5Q Pro IDE Boot Problems! help?

    Hi everyone, I happened to have the exact the same issue. well....not exact,but very similar... just purchased ASUS P5Q Pro and for three nights, i couldn't install Windows XP on my Seagate SATA Drive. Initially, I was trying to slipstream winxp with the Intel ICH10R Sata driver in the hope of...