Don't it figure MK.II

Sir. Hippieman Weed · Post by **Sir. Hippieman Weed** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 5:20 pm

Alright, I got the new parts. Seems like the Radeon 9800 Pro is working just fine. Although the one new stick of memory was faulty and screwed up windows pretty bad, after that a program DriveCleaner finished windows off and can't even get in. I can't repair/reinstall XP PRO since it freezes during copying the setup files, reboots at the end of copying, freezes during setup(Only got here once). Now im not sure why, the OS (Even tried 2k Pro's) disc that I use are fine, the 2 remaining sticks of memory are fine, the new 3200+ is fine(was a dream with the non-busted memory), and everything else as far as I know.

I know the 9800 Pro isn't busted because my old GF2 MX200 does has the same problems. The 2 sticks of memory were ran through a lot of Memtest86 test, although 1 has a very slight chance of being faulty(1 error popped up in a test, reinstalled it and ran through about 10 more test. Error didn't show but still could be intermittent). But maybe something else since I've done it with just the 1 100% good stick. The 400W can easily handle the new upgrades I believe. The DVD drives aren't busted, backup machine(One im on now) loves my DVD-RW. And cooling doesn't seem to be a issue. CPU hovers at 42F/ 5.5C without heavy load, at least according to BIOS (May not be totally accurate but close enough).

I'm gonna see about timing settings and also if any of the sticks just can't seem to handle DDR400 speeds. Also gonna check the voltage settings as a just in case sort of thing. Below is the old and new stats of main machine. Just needed some other ideas how this could be happening. Also gonna flash the BIOS to the newest rev. Although the 1.007 can handle the stats supposidly.

Old stats of main machine:
XP PRO
2000+ Athlon XP
Asus A7N8X Deluxe (1st rev)
128 MB Radeon 9800 Pro (Stock fan/heatsink)
512 MB of PC-2100 ram
16x DVD-RW drive (<--fucking uber drive!)
16x DVD-ROM drive (not a writer)
400w Antec SL400
40GB Seagate 5400 or 7200 RPM (Forgot) (IDE)
120GB Seagate 7200 RPM (SATA I)
10GB Maxtor 91021US 5400 RPM (IDE)

New stats of main machine:
XP Pro (Fucked)
3200+ Athlon XP Barton (400FSB)
Asus A7N8X Deluxe (1st rev)
128MB Radeon 9800 Pro (Now has Zalman heatsinks/fan)
1.5 GB (3 x 512) PC-3200 Corsair (Valueram. Just means can't OC much/at all) Currently 1GB till I RMA the busted stick.
16x DVD-RW
16x DVD-ROM
400w Antec SL400 PS
40GB Seagate 5400 or 7200 RPM (Forgot) (IDE)
120GB Seagate 7200 RPM (SATA I)

a4nic8er · Post by **a4nic8er** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:57 pm

I once had a problem installing XP Pro caused by too much RAM. Yes, that's right - too much RAM. When I was informed of this rare and little-known isssue I removed all but one stick of RAM for the install, then added the rest after XP was up and running.

Lev · Post by **Lev** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 10:44 am

a4nic8er wrote:I once had a problem installing XP Pro caused by too much RAM. Yes, that's right - too much RAM. When I was informed of this rare and little-known isssue I removed all but one stick of RAM for the install, then added the rest after XP was up and running.

how much ram did you have? >8 gigs?

NoNo · Post by **NoNo** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 12:52 pm

good awld microsoft the only people who design software to not work if u have too many free resources.