Hi All
Any advice much appreciated
System specs:
Motherboard: Asus P5Q-E
Chip: Intel Quad Core Q8800 2.66 1300
Ram: OCZ PC2 6400 8GB (4x2GB)
Hard Drive: Western Digital 320GB SATA II
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB DDR3 PCI-E
Power: OCZ PSU 700SXS StealthXStream 700W
Optical Drive: Samsung DVD RW SH-S223Q/RSMN 22x SATA
OK – 3 successful builds of other machines behind me, always a few teething problems but nothing I haven’t been able to fathom until now.
Spent a couple of days now trying to sort this build out:
At the moment I have installed the chip & fan, 1 stick of memory (2gb) and the graphics card. The idea being to add the rest of the ram and a couple more hard drives once os installed. Machine boots and can get into the bios no problem. Left bios on default settings.
Now the fun starts –
Try and install Vista Home Premium 64bit - on first attempt get as far as extracting files and then system hangs on 9% and eventually just turns itself off
On all subsequent tries system takes ages (5mins) to go through each stage of setup. And then either hangs or goes to a garbled blue screen of death or just a blank screen. Not necessarily at the same point of installation.
Have tried resetting the CMOS, manually setting the cpu and ram settings in the bios, changing the ram voltage to 2.1v (from manual), tried all sorts of variations , run memtest (didn’t seem to be a problem with the ram), preyed etc but still no joy.
Have been to Asus site and downloaded latest bios but, after several attempts to follow instructions, keep getting message that the biso files are not the same size. So haven’t managed to update it. There are also mobo chip updates that refer to 64bit support but these can only be installed once os up and running
Then tried to install XP Home 32bit. Maybe Bios doesn’t like 64 bit?
Much faster install – all perfect up to first reboot then system just hangs during second part of install (Installing Devices) five green dots in bottom right hand corner move for a while and then just stop. This has happened 5 times now.
Tried another XP Professional 64bit OS and same sort of problems – starts install and then just freezes, black screen or garbled BSOD.
Guessing it’s more hardware related than software? – any advise on stable bios settings or some way of testing configuration would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Nick
Any advice much appreciated
System specs:
Motherboard: Asus P5Q-E
Chip: Intel Quad Core Q8800 2.66 1300
Ram: OCZ PC2 6400 8GB (4x2GB)
Hard Drive: Western Digital 320GB SATA II
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB DDR3 PCI-E
Power: OCZ PSU 700SXS StealthXStream 700W
Optical Drive: Samsung DVD RW SH-S223Q/RSMN 22x SATA
OK – 3 successful builds of other machines behind me, always a few teething problems but nothing I haven’t been able to fathom until now.
Spent a couple of days now trying to sort this build out:
At the moment I have installed the chip & fan, 1 stick of memory (2gb) and the graphics card. The idea being to add the rest of the ram and a couple more hard drives once os installed. Machine boots and can get into the bios no problem. Left bios on default settings.
Now the fun starts –
Try and install Vista Home Premium 64bit - on first attempt get as far as extracting files and then system hangs on 9% and eventually just turns itself off
On all subsequent tries system takes ages (5mins) to go through each stage of setup. And then either hangs or goes to a garbled blue screen of death or just a blank screen. Not necessarily at the same point of installation.
Have tried resetting the CMOS, manually setting the cpu and ram settings in the bios, changing the ram voltage to 2.1v (from manual), tried all sorts of variations , run memtest (didn’t seem to be a problem with the ram), preyed etc but still no joy.
Have been to Asus site and downloaded latest bios but, after several attempts to follow instructions, keep getting message that the biso files are not the same size. So haven’t managed to update it. There are also mobo chip updates that refer to 64bit support but these can only be installed once os up and running
Then tried to install XP Home 32bit. Maybe Bios doesn’t like 64 bit?
Much faster install – all perfect up to first reboot then system just hangs during second part of install (Installing Devices) five green dots in bottom right hand corner move for a while and then just stop. This has happened 5 times now.
Tried another XP Professional 64bit OS and same sort of problems – starts install and then just freezes, black screen or garbled BSOD.
Guessing it’s more hardware related than software? – any advise on stable bios settings or some way of testing configuration would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Nick