[SOLVED] Cant install any OS. (Pc freeze)

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Free old game pc with a asus mobi and intel dual core and 4gb ram, nothing special but it has an amd 6870 so i grabbed it. Corsair 750w psu.

Cleaned and repasted cpu and gpu and reseated all cables while removing 10yrs of dust.

had a running win7 on with crap so obvious reinstall.

cmos battery was dead so replaced it.
Bios defaults.

tried xp 32bit sp2 but freezes on 35%
tried win7 ultimate 64bit freezes on start logo.

tried with 1 or the other stick of ram
tried 3 different sata hdd and even one ide drive. They all ‘work’.

never had this problem, could this be something bios related ?

 

[mdd1963]

Perhaps see if it will even load from a newly prepared flash drive hosting an ISO of Memtest86... (you will need to boot from whichever media contains it)

MemTest86 - Official Site of the x86 Memory Testing Tool

MemTest86 is the original self booting memory testing software for x86 and ARM computers. Supporting both BIOS and UEFI, with options to boot from USB.

www.memtest86.com

What mainboard and CPU are there, so we do not waste time on 64 bit OS options that might not even be viable...

 

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Its socket 775 e*** and ddr2 ram so. Im gonna try boot something else.

 

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i tried ubuntu cd i had and the kernel gives a bios error.
#b1 00000031

also gonna try and update bios its 5 revisions late

 

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Ok bios update and manually install drivers in device manager did the trick.

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