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    A64 3200+ OC on A8N-SLI, w/350W PSU

    system is stable as a rock during boot up and has up till now, not crashed. prime fails at 251, but I do not get bsod or a random reboot. well, all I know is enermax makes quality psu's that's for sure. this 3 year old 350watter STILL has life left.
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    A64 3200+ OC on A8N-SLI, w/350W PSU

    Darn, kinda wished it was that easy :) but, i'm pretty happy with a 25% overclock. and it's prime stable with relatively low temps. thanks for the help guys.
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    A64 3200+ OC on A8N-SLI, w/350W PSU

    I've actually tried the 312x8=2.5, w/ a mem divider of 3:2, but in that case it doesn't even POST, hangs in the BIOS. I haven't tried a 9x multiplier because my MB doens't support any other dividers aside from 5:4, 3:2, and I can't get my memory past 220 with 2.9v. Is it strange that at 250...
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    A64 3200+ OC on A8N-SLI, w/350W PSU

    Current Setup: Athlon 64 3200+ winchester 90nm Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Bios: 1003 Final 2 x 512 Corsair Value Select PC3200 Leadtek 6600GT 1 x 80gig WD IDE 1 x 120gig WD IDE 1 x NEC ND-3520A DVDRW Enermax 350Watt PSU (365P) Current OC: CPU: HTT=250mhz x 10 = 2.5 Ghz., 1.55v 5:4...
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    xp setup cd hangs at initial hardware config detection...

    Had a problem with XP installation as well. Could be a number of things, your win xp CD, or any part of your hardware. You might want to check our this thread, you may find some answers: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=32&threadid=1336055&enterthread=y you might want...
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    xp setup hangs with 35 minutes left *UPDATED **FIXED!!!!!!!

    Hey guys, after two weeks of playing around, I finally fixed the problem. It was actually the PCI ethernet card on my motherboard that had gone bad. I discovered this when I loaded win2000, and any attempt to enable/disable the network card caused the system to crash. I then disabled the...
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    xp setup hangs with 35 minutes left *UPDATED **FIXED!!!!!!!

    I assume that if 98 detected my hardware correctly, then that hardware itself is OK right?
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    xp setup hangs with 35 minutes left *UPDATED **FIXED!!!!!!!

    On a whim I decided to try and install windows 98. And wha la, 98 installed, with a couple hitches, but I managed to boot up and click around the desktop. The only issue was win98 could not locate proper drivers for my newer hardware, but it still identified and searched for drivers for my video...
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    xp setup hangs with 35 minutes left *UPDATED **FIXED!!!!!!!

    Are you saying that i might fry my mobo? alright, i'll find a PCI video card to try it out with. thanks for the warning.
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    xp setup hangs with 35 minutes left *UPDATED **FIXED!!!!!!!

    hey i used to have that same video card! i'll see if I can scavenge it and plug it in... i actually think i have an old TNT that might work. ok, so tonight i'm going to switch out my Video, IDE cable, and use my other dvd-rom, any other suggestions?
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    xp setup hangs with 35 minutes left *UPDATED **FIXED!!!!!!!

    I can try the IDE cable idea, and I'll disconnect my other drive when i'm using just one. I'll try and get hold of another copy of XP... maybe a REAL one, and see what happens. my power supply is a enermax 350W (EG365P-VE(FM)). come to think of it, that's not THAT great, you're saying it could...
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    xp setup hangs with 35 minutes left *UPDATED **FIXED!!!!!!!

    Yeah, I'm going to try my dvd drive tonight. it's such a pain waiting to go home from work to fix this thing. I should probably just take a day off and nurse my comp back to health. Could it be my geforce 4 ti4200? I haven't tried swapping that out to see what would happen. I actually had that...
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    xp setup hangs with 35 minutes left *UPDATED **FIXED!!!!!!!

    my case is open and all fans are going, and CPU read temps look OK, I set the clock back to stock so i don't think it's the heat. My harddrives are getting plenty of air flow too. I used to be able to install xp using one of the CD's just fine. I remember I reformatted 2 or 3 times before...
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    xp setup hangs with 35 minutes left *UPDATED **FIXED!!!!!!!

    I've only tried my dvd drive once before (instead of my cdr/w), but that was with only one CD, I'll try and use the other CD this time with my dvd drive.
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    xp setup hangs with 35 minutes left *UPDATED **FIXED!!!!!!!

    OK, i set the clock speed and vcore voltage back to stock, 1.5v, and 1.6ghz, and it is still not responding. I restarted like 4 times and it continues to hang in the same place. Holy crap i think i'm going to lose it soon... WTF is going ON???????
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    xp setup hangs with 35 minutes left *UPDATED **FIXED!!!!!!!

    i got these copies from friends, and no doubt they go iso's from the net. If the ISO was bad, then wouldn't i get some kind of file copy error or something? If not then, what are the chances that two CD's have the exact same error in the exact same place?
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    xp setup hangs with 35 minutes left *UPDATED **FIXED!!!!!!!

    i have let it go for a while, hoping that when i came back to it, it would work, but the couple times that I did, nothing happened. nothing was writing to the hardrive and the GUI was stuck in the same place. Just how long did you let it go for?
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    xp setup hangs with 35 minutes left *UPDATED **FIXED!!!!!!!

    no, i haven't tried that. I just thought that a clean install would be better than repairing it. and update, i've tried swapping out my ram sticks but no configuration is getting me anywhere.
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    xp setup hangs with 35 minutes left *UPDATED **FIXED!!!!!!!

    Yeah, I actually thought of that too, and disabled power management in the BIOS. But thanks for the suggestion. I'm going to try swapping out the RAM tonight and see what happens. It's just so damned frustrating because it's a bare bones system right now, so I think it has to be related to the...
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    xp setup hangs with 35 minutes left *UPDATED **FIXED!!!!!!!

    Yeah, 1.6 @ 2.45 stock cooling too, running under 40C under full load, I've got a coolermaster and I think it keeps things pretty cool and stable. These are 2 separate burned copies of winxp, but I don't get a copy file error during the installation process.
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    xp setup hangs with 35 minutes left *UPDATED **FIXED!!!!!!!

    I've tried leaving ACPI on, and one hardrive I'm trying actually had winxp installed and working perfectly up until my computer wouldn't boot. Like I said, I've tried two separate hardrives (both of which I believe are in perfect working order) and w/ both of them, xp hangs at the exact same...
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    xp setup hangs with 35 minutes left *UPDATED **FIXED!!!!!!!

    Hey guys, need some serious help. Trying to install Windows XP Pro onto my computer. And during the winxp setup, it stops responding when it says 35 minutes left to install. I've restarted probably 20 times and it hangs up in the SAME EXACT place. Starting to REALLY piss me off. Here's what...