Computer is kickin my @ss

[pwrhungry01]

Trying to even get it to install windows was a pita. After you press F1 to continue it keep freezing. Even now there is only one of the 2 sticks of memory in it. I built my last computer and my bro was helping me and he has built multiple computers but this one kicked our ass. At the moment I hate this motherboard. Can someone with a similar comp or something screenshot the bios? As far as I can tell memory has to be in 2 and 4 also with 2 sticks to run ddr. Heres the rig help me before me and the wall play frisbee with this motherboard pleeeease!


Thermaltake Tsunami VA3000BWA Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower
DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard
ENERMAX Whisper II EG565P-VE FMA2.0 ATX12V 535W Power Supply
MSI RX850XT-TD256E Radeon X850XT PCI Express 256MB DDR3 Video Card
Viewsonic VX924 19in LCD Monitor
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer Limited Edition
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice 1GHz FSB 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor
Patriot 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory
Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74GB 10,000 RPM 8MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive
Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 Speaker
THE RIG.

 

[ChipDeath]

That should be a pretty kick-ass system, but ah well...

Why do you have to push F1 to continue? I've only seen that sort of thing on things like COMPAQ Pcs when they detect new hardware.

Have you connected all the power connectors to the board? There looks to be 3, although I'd guess one is only of real use when using 2 video cards (that'd be the additional 4-pin in-line molex)

Try to boot with just one stick of RAM, the CPU & HSF, and a graphics card. If that works, add components until you get a problem, then you know the last component was the problem.

I'm assuming you've not got to the point of installing windows yet.

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[dunklegend]

My PC asks me to press F1 when I forget to remove my usb flash memory and reboot. I think that it treats it like a drive.

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[Guest]

Lets not forget bout the no keyboard present press F1 to continue!


Asus P4P800DX, P4C 2.6ghz@3.25ghz, 2X512 OCZ PC4000 3-4-4-8, MSI 6800Ultra stock, 2X30gig Raid0

 

[Guest]

And yes what was the message when you had to press f1?

Asus P4P800DX, P4C 2.6ghz@3.25ghz, 2X512 OCZ PC4000 3-4-4-8, MSI 6800Ultra stock, 2X30gig Raid0

 

[pwrhungry01]

Got it running but with only 1 stick of memory. What slots am I suppose to put the sticks in? I thought it was 2 and 4 but it still dont work. Gives me a blue screen with fstp error or somthing and keeps rebooting when 2 sticks are in.