XP Crashing

[Guest]

I recently installed a new Asrock motherboard - I assume all the wires have been reattached correctly since it booted fine and everything seems to work. This is until I install my graphics card drivers. Once they are installed, after a few seconds of being in XP, it just freezes. I can do nothing but stare at my desktop, that or turn it off. I have reinstalled XP a few times and it still doesn't want to work. Some people have told me that it may be because the PSU isn't supplying enough power for the new motherboard. Can anybody share some insight into what may be going wrong here?

 

[Guest]

I should also mention that the motherboard has an integrated nForce SLI chipset, could this be conflicting with my nvidia 9400GT?

 

[nvchad2]

Did you uninstall the oboard drivers? At least I think you can. I know that if you change graphics cards that you have to first uninstall the original card or you'll run into issues. Possibly the same thing is happening.

Do you know the Wattage that your PSU puts out? If you look on the side of the PSU, it should say. Either of those could very well be your problem, but I'm not saying I know for sure.

 

[Guest]

Well I know that my PSU is a bit poor (it's from my old packard bell) and only outputs 250W which is why I've tried not to run it for long other than to see if there were any other issues. I'm going to get a new PSU tomorrow but I'm wondering if there could be other factors besides that, you see.

 

[nvchad2]

yea, 250W isnt much, but its what I run. Mines from a Gateway 3310. I dont have a graphics card in mine yet, so I know im under the power ratings, but you never know. New PSU may solve everything. good luck, and let us know if it works or if there is another issue at hand.

 

[Guest]

I bought a new 600W PSU and it STILL CRASHES. It's making me pretty angry now. ;(

Any other ideas?

 

[Outlander_04]

how can we have ideas when you wont tell us the model of mb , processor , memory and maybe a few other things like xp service packs

but heres a suggestion

Download windows 7 RC from microsoft . Install that ,and if it crashes you have a hardware problem

 

[Guest]

OK I'll try the Windows 7 thing while I get the details of the hardware, I know that I have Service Pack 3 though.

While I download Windows 7 I'll have a go at installing Vista since apparently this motherboard is "Windows Vista Native" xD

 

[Guest]

I installed Vista and it was still crashing.

Here are some of my specs:

Asrock N7AD-SLI motherboard
2x 1024MB DDR2
nvidia 9400GT
Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 @ 2.20GHz (64 bit)

No operating system installed at the moment but I know that it crashes in XP Professional 32-bit, Vista Ultimate 32-bit and Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

Peripherals:

The usual mouse and keyboard. (PS/2)
Optiarc CD/DVD drive
D-Link DWA-140 wireless USB device (ralink 2800 chipset)

If you need any other specs just ask

 

[Guest]

I'm disabling some of the unecessary features in the BIOS now.

 

[Guest]

It seems to be running pretty steadily now at the moment. Not a clue what's changed.

 

[nvchad2]

Well perhaps everything will be fine now. Let us know if anything changes.