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Diamontina Cocktail
Brand new motherboard Gigabyte GA-VM900M with Socket 775 CPU in it P4
3.0Ghz. and 512megs ram. Oddities happening all over this installation made
me doubt the thing is working right.
So, I decided to get out a brand new hard drive that has never been used
before, install XP fresh on it and install the motherboard drivers
thereafter. All APPEARS OK but when you do something requiring a lot of
mucking about, it sometimes dies. This is EXACTLY what happened with the
computer before under its own CPU and motherboard and older XP installation.
I thought the case may be busted because some fool who put the computer
together used the "case open" warning attachment on the motherboard to shove
the leads that show only power is on and the motherboard original in it had
slowly degraded to the point where it started throwing up errors that didn't
make any sense.
Therefore, there I am with brand new case, brand new motherboard, brand new
CPU, brand new HD and brand new ram and I install XP fresh. When it
finishes, all seems OK but the one thing that would kill the old machine
reliably was to do a chkdsk /r and command and reboot and let it do that. It
would get all the way through to test 5 of 5 and do that 100% and just when
it was supposed to reboot, wouldn't. It would, instead, blue screen with an
IRCL error "not equal to" or something along that sort of wording. So I did
that chkdsk /r with what is basically all new machinery and sure enough,
same problem. I figured the motherboard was probably wrecked because I put
it in the old case in the first place so put a new motherboard in a new case
and put new ram in it again and installed XP fresh all over again and did
the chkdsk /r on it again and same problem. However, boot off the XP CD and
go to the first repair prompt and do chkdsk /r there and it completes with
no errors and doesn't blue screen.
So has anyone any ideas why this is going on please? I think my eyes are
crossed and I cant see an answer because of that now because I cant see any
sense in it.
Any help appreciated.
3.0Ghz. and 512megs ram. Oddities happening all over this installation made
me doubt the thing is working right.
So, I decided to get out a brand new hard drive that has never been used
before, install XP fresh on it and install the motherboard drivers
thereafter. All APPEARS OK but when you do something requiring a lot of
mucking about, it sometimes dies. This is EXACTLY what happened with the
computer before under its own CPU and motherboard and older XP installation.
I thought the case may be busted because some fool who put the computer
together used the "case open" warning attachment on the motherboard to shove
the leads that show only power is on and the motherboard original in it had
slowly degraded to the point where it started throwing up errors that didn't
make any sense.
Therefore, there I am with brand new case, brand new motherboard, brand new
CPU, brand new HD and brand new ram and I install XP fresh. When it
finishes, all seems OK but the one thing that would kill the old machine
reliably was to do a chkdsk /r and command and reboot and let it do that. It
would get all the way through to test 5 of 5 and do that 100% and just when
it was supposed to reboot, wouldn't. It would, instead, blue screen with an
IRCL error "not equal to" or something along that sort of wording. So I did
that chkdsk /r with what is basically all new machinery and sure enough,
same problem. I figured the motherboard was probably wrecked because I put
it in the old case in the first place so put a new motherboard in a new case
and put new ram in it again and installed XP fresh all over again and did
the chkdsk /r on it again and same problem. However, boot off the XP CD and
go to the first repair prompt and do chkdsk /r there and it completes with
no errors and doesn't blue screen.
So has anyone any ideas why this is going on please? I think my eyes are
crossed and I cant see an answer because of that now because I cant see any
sense in it.
Any help appreciated.