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I built a new rig and somehow installed XP twice so on boot I have to make a choice of versions. How do I get rid of one??

Great deal. I ordered one today. This PSU gets great reviews. Now I need a UV light to make it glow!

I'm running a Powercolor 9800 Pro video card on an AMD 3500+ system with Zalman 400 Watt PSU. I'm trying to play Tiger Woods' 2005 Tour but after a few holes the screen goes blank and the computer freezes. I have no other issues with the computer. Any suggestions as to the problem?

In the interest of not sounding stupid when I describe my computer to friends, how is Lian-Li pronounced?

Ok. The incompatible Rosewill memory is RW400/512. They are marked as PQI Chips with the following numbers: PQ4D328Y5 0510 The working Corsair is the Value Select VS512MB400 marked as VALUESELECT with the following numbers: VS32M8-5 PS1300513B Hope this...

I had a lot of problems trying to get XP Home to install on the following build: AMD 64 Athlon 3500+ ASUS A8V Deluxe MOBO 4x 512 Rosewill PC3200 Samsung 1614N 160 GB ATA133 NEC 3520A DVD Powercolor 9800Pro128 AGP Zalman 400PS Lian-Li PC-60 USB Case The ultimate solution was...

Ok folks, the problem is solved and Windows XP has launched. As a last resort, I replaced the Rosewill 512 DDR400 (Part# RW400/512)sticks with the ASUS recommended Corsair VS1GBKIT400 modules. I erased the HDD with the Samsung Hutil.exe available from the Samsung website, did a CMOS clear...

Thanks to all of you who responded to my problem. You are a great group of knowledgeable people who love to help novices like me.This ASUS A8V Deluxe MOBO is going back for replacement; it just will not load Windows. I'll post if I succeed with the second board.

I think I might have a compatability issue with my Powercolor Radeon 9800 128 MB card and wonder if anyone can recommend a good card that will definitely work with my MOBO. My card works but I cannot get XP installed and with the help of others on the forum have ruled out other issues that may...

I checked with Samsung and they have the low level format utility available for download which I will do when I get home this PM. I'll keep you posted. Thanks again!!!

Overnight, I ran memtest 86+ again and it found no errors in 32 passes. I found a brand new Windows XP SP2 that came with my Company Notebook. Ran the installation and got the blue screen of death with the message "Page fault in non paged area" for whatever that is worth. I then tore out a...

I have a seperate ribbon cable for both the HDD/MOBO and the CD-ROM/MOBO. I might be able to borrow an XP disk, good thought! I'll rotate the memory stick. We'll get this solved. I'm also learning a lot from a bunch of helpful people! I'll start working on this tomorrow PM, I'm bleary eyed...

I'm using flat cables. Also, I forgot to mention, I'm just using one memory stick right now to get installed. I'm thinking of ordering approved memory for this mobo. The Rosewill is not on the list. Probably made a mistake buying it in the first place.

I.ve tried 6 times to install XP with no success due to files hanging up. Any more suggestions? Could it be bad memory though I ran memtest86+ all night last night with no problems. Thanks in advance. I really appreciate the help you nice folks are giving me.

I'm on my third try installing files and I still get files that won't install and a subsuquent blue screen of death. I've washed and dried the disk as apecified. I know we are close here but I don't know how to get past these files that won't install.