Question Weird BIOS crash ?

[WatchDog]

trying to install a fresh windows xp on this old system(Celeron D,512mb ram,478 socket),booting from hard disk causes bsod,booting from a windows xp cd causes this

tried with\without gpu,same error

 

[rgd1101]

hardware issue. ram, cpu or the motherboard.

 

[WatchDog]

hardware issue. ram, cpu or the motherboard.

i doubt about ram or cpu,could it be south or north bridge on the mb

 

[ImWolf]

Looks perty cool.... :b

Does your BIOS splash screen go by normally b4 trying to load an O/S?

Are you able to hit Delete, F2, etc, to enter BIOS setup?

I would suspect hardware issue too. If you have 2 or more Simm slots you can try switching RAM.... (they are read sequentially so if 1st Simm is bad none will be used).

Wolf

 

[WatchDog]

Looks perty cool.... :b

Does your BIOS splash screen go by normally b4 trying to load an O/S?

Are you able to hit Delete, F2, etc, to enter BIOS setup?

I would suspect hardware issue too. If you have 2 or more Simm slots you can try switching RAM.... (they are read sequentially so if 1st Simm is bad none will be used).

Wolf

bios works fine and settings are changeable,except the mb logo screen that happens with minor artifacts,i dont see any artifacts on bios setting or dos screen .

 

[ImWolf]

Ok.... so all is good until your system needs to access memory to load an O/S.

(BIOS is onboard chip, not Simm..... as I'm sure you already know).

I would next go into BIOS and disable "fast boot" if option exists so you can see memory test on splash screen.

Then, just for fun I would try to boot a much older O/S..... DOS 5 or DOS 6 just to see if there's a sophisticated (newer) bug in the works.