12-22-2008, 07:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-22-2008, 07:49 PM by Mordekhuul.)
So yesterday I went and purchased a Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3L motherboard, an Intel Core 2 Duo 8500 Processor, and a new case that would fit the new mobo.
After construction, I first tried running it without doing a fresh OS install, just to see how it would deal (XP Pro). Interestingly, it starts up, but either druing the Login screen, while loading, or shortly after logging in, the whole system would freeze up (whatever the screen graphics were at the time would never change, nothing was happening - complete freeze up).
Fine, I say, so I pick up an OEM copy of XP Pro (shying away from Vista for now), come home, work some magic to make the machine actually boot from CD (for whatever reason, setting CD-Drive as the first boot priority did not work. I had to unplug the HDD from the MB to get it to boot from CD, and then plug it in while running thereafter), and start the Windows XP install.
I had it remove all existing partitions on my drive, format a single C: drive, and it then proceeded to happily copy over all of the files it needs to for install.
It then rebooted the machine, loaded up (from the HDD I believe, not the CD) to complete the install, and entered the Windows Setup mode. It then did some preliminary things, started the installation, and promptly froze up completely, not allowing the mouse to move, the progress bar to advance...nothing. I waited some 2 hours to be sure it wasn't just quietly finishing the install.
This happened the next few times as well.
I'm unsure what the culprit is unfortunately. It is very, very frustrating to not know.
Right now the only things on the box are the hard drive (SATA connector), DVDRom (IDE), 4 GB DDR2 Ram, motherboard bolted to the case, Dual core CPU installed with the intel-supplied box fan on top of it, my 500W power supply from my previous machine, and my Nvidia video card in the PCI-Express slot.
I have one friend suggesting that one of my 4 sticks of Ram might have gone out in the process of swapping motherboards/machines, leading to a crash at a random time and another friend confident that I installed the heatsink wrong and the CPU is overheating.
Meanwhile I fear it could be one of those things, could be that friggin Gigabyte had a nice big sticker across the 4 DDR2 Ram slots that when peeled off left a lot of sticker residue, that I only mostly was able to scrape away, could simply be a faulty MB, could be that the MB or CPU were damaged when I had to firmly press the lever down to lock the CPU in place thanks to the design of the MB/CPU....
Ugh.
After construction, I first tried running it without doing a fresh OS install, just to see how it would deal (XP Pro). Interestingly, it starts up, but either druing the Login screen, while loading, or shortly after logging in, the whole system would freeze up (whatever the screen graphics were at the time would never change, nothing was happening - complete freeze up).
Fine, I say, so I pick up an OEM copy of XP Pro (shying away from Vista for now), come home, work some magic to make the machine actually boot from CD (for whatever reason, setting CD-Drive as the first boot priority did not work. I had to unplug the HDD from the MB to get it to boot from CD, and then plug it in while running thereafter), and start the Windows XP install.
I had it remove all existing partitions on my drive, format a single C: drive, and it then proceeded to happily copy over all of the files it needs to for install.
It then rebooted the machine, loaded up (from the HDD I believe, not the CD) to complete the install, and entered the Windows Setup mode. It then did some preliminary things, started the installation, and promptly froze up completely, not allowing the mouse to move, the progress bar to advance...nothing. I waited some 2 hours to be sure it wasn't just quietly finishing the install.
This happened the next few times as well.
I'm unsure what the culprit is unfortunately. It is very, very frustrating to not know.
Right now the only things on the box are the hard drive (SATA connector), DVDRom (IDE), 4 GB DDR2 Ram, motherboard bolted to the case, Dual core CPU installed with the intel-supplied box fan on top of it, my 500W power supply from my previous machine, and my Nvidia video card in the PCI-Express slot.
I have one friend suggesting that one of my 4 sticks of Ram might have gone out in the process of swapping motherboards/machines, leading to a crash at a random time and another friend confident that I installed the heatsink wrong and the CPU is overheating.
Meanwhile I fear it could be one of those things, could be that friggin Gigabyte had a nice big sticker across the 4 DDR2 Ram slots that when peeled off left a lot of sticker residue, that I only mostly was able to scrape away, could simply be a faulty MB, could be that the MB or CPU were damaged when I had to firmly press the lever down to lock the CPU in place thanks to the design of the MB/CPU....
Ugh.
Jormuttar is Soo Fat...