imported_Gemini
Junior Member
I recently bought some new components:
Elitegroup ECS-P965T-A
Intel Core2 Duo E6300
NVidia 7900GS 256MB
1024 MB DDR2-800 RAM (2x512 MB)
From my old system I still have a Hitachi Deskstar IC35L120AVV207-1 harddisk. I connected it as Slave at the only IDE channel available.
Now my problem is that i can neither start the old Windows XP installation nor install a new one. When I start the old Windows either it just stops loading, or I get a blue screen. When I try to unstall a new Windows the installation stops at "Setup is loading files (Windows Executive)". In both cases after I reset I get an endless loop of 4 second beeps, I have to shutdown and power up the system to at least get back into the BIOS. I googled for this beep code but could only find conflicting information (it is an Award BIOS, some sites say it is a RAM error, some say it has something to do with the CPU).
Memtest 86 could not find an error in the RAM, I also tried to run the system with only one memory stick.
In the BIOS my HD is correctly detected in the boot priority screen, but not in the Standard CMOS screen (where the cylinders, heads, sectors etc are shown). If I manually enter the relevant information it is all reset to 0 after a reboot. All other BIOS information is stored though.
I'm not sure where exactly the problem lies, it may be the HD (incompatible, broken?), but the beep code contradicts this (though I don't know what it means).
Elitegroup ECS-P965T-A
Intel Core2 Duo E6300
NVidia 7900GS 256MB
1024 MB DDR2-800 RAM (2x512 MB)
From my old system I still have a Hitachi Deskstar IC35L120AVV207-1 harddisk. I connected it as Slave at the only IDE channel available.
Now my problem is that i can neither start the old Windows XP installation nor install a new one. When I start the old Windows either it just stops loading, or I get a blue screen. When I try to unstall a new Windows the installation stops at "Setup is loading files (Windows Executive)". In both cases after I reset I get an endless loop of 4 second beeps, I have to shutdown and power up the system to at least get back into the BIOS. I googled for this beep code but could only find conflicting information (it is an Award BIOS, some sites say it is a RAM error, some say it has something to do with the CPU).
Memtest 86 could not find an error in the RAM, I also tried to run the system with only one memory stick.
In the BIOS my HD is correctly detected in the boot priority screen, but not in the Standard CMOS screen (where the cylinders, heads, sectors etc are shown). If I manually enter the relevant information it is all reset to 0 after a reboot. All other BIOS information is stored though.
I'm not sure where exactly the problem lies, it may be the HD (incompatible, broken?), but the beep code contradicts this (though I don't know what it means).
