I came across a situation while helping a customer upgrading his system.
My customer bought an MSI P4N SLI-FI motherboard. It has:
• NVIDIA ® nForce4 SLI Intel Edition Chipset
- HyperTransport link to nVidia MCP04 south bridge
- Supports 2 PCI Express x16 and 1 PCI Express x1 interface
• Two PCI Express X16 slot (supports PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)
Normal mode: Primary PCI-E slot is compatible with PCI Express x16
Secondary PCI-E slot is compatible with PCI Express x1
SLI mode: Primary PCI-E slot is compatible with PCI Express x8
Secondary PCI-E slot is compatible with PCI Express x8
He also bought an ATI X800 CrossFire Edition 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card.
He's a novice in these technology so he bought these without prior researchs.
Here's my problem. Put together all the pieces without any problem. Boot up Okay. Then when it comes to the part where I have to install an OS. Troubles arises. I can be able to boot up from the installation CD and the CD can recognizes my SATA drive withouth any problems. When it dones with the first phase of the installation which is formatting the drive and copy the neccessary files for the install it reboots right?
Yes, indeed but when the system tries to get back into the installation afther the first reboot, it keeps on rebooting and rebooting and rebooting.
At first I thought the problem is a hardware conflict problem so I took apart all the unneccessary parts including the second DVD burner, 2 RAID drives, and I also checked all cables and wires. Seemed alright to me! Tried the installation again and still the sytems kept rebooting...
Help me out guys and gals! What do you guys think? To me I think the trouble lies with the graphic card. Since the graphic card uses ATI chipset and the board uses NVidia chipset not to mention the SLI and CrossFire differences.
Please give me as much info on this as possible. Greatly appreciate your helps!
My customer bought an MSI P4N SLI-FI motherboard. It has:
• NVIDIA ® nForce4 SLI Intel Edition Chipset
- HyperTransport link to nVidia MCP04 south bridge
- Supports 2 PCI Express x16 and 1 PCI Express x1 interface
• Two PCI Express X16 slot (supports PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)
Normal mode: Primary PCI-E slot is compatible with PCI Express x16
Secondary PCI-E slot is compatible with PCI Express x1
SLI mode: Primary PCI-E slot is compatible with PCI Express x8
Secondary PCI-E slot is compatible with PCI Express x8
He also bought an ATI X800 CrossFire Edition 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card.
He's a novice in these technology so he bought these without prior researchs.
Here's my problem. Put together all the pieces without any problem. Boot up Okay. Then when it comes to the part where I have to install an OS. Troubles arises. I can be able to boot up from the installation CD and the CD can recognizes my SATA drive withouth any problems. When it dones with the first phase of the installation which is formatting the drive and copy the neccessary files for the install it reboots right?
Yes, indeed but when the system tries to get back into the installation afther the first reboot, it keeps on rebooting and rebooting and rebooting.
At first I thought the problem is a hardware conflict problem so I took apart all the unneccessary parts including the second DVD burner, 2 RAID drives, and I also checked all cables and wires. Seemed alright to me! Tried the installation again and still the sytems kept rebooting...
Help me out guys and gals! What do you guys think? To me I think the trouble lies with the graphic card. Since the graphic card uses ATI chipset and the board uses NVidia chipset not to mention the SLI and CrossFire differences.
Please give me as much info on this as possible. Greatly appreciate your helps!