Anyone Have Familiarity with an INTEL DG965RY(CK) Mobo?

[imported_Mado]

Ok, so my last post detailed an issue I was having. Turns out the board didn't work with my GPU and still no idea what the USB issue was. Anyway, I ended up asked the hardware tech for advice on what Board I should get for a C2D CPU. He recommends the Intel DG965RYCK. So he installs the board, and cpu for me and runs a quick test to make sure all parts are working.

When I get home with the computer I start on the XP install. Previous to this I was running a Work Licensed copy of Windows XP Pro. But since I didn't have the discs and I don't work at that company anymore I decided to just buy my own copy. I insert the disc, and start running through the setup. It get's all the way to the end and reboots. When it comes up again, I get to the Windows Loading screen and everything is greyed out. That screen stays up for about 3 seconds and my computer reboots. Then it brings me to a XP Failed to load, chooose safe, normal, etc modes. Any choice reboots the pc and gives me a blue error screen.

I'm hoping the issue is either related to my use of an add on IDE card, and needing to F6 prior to the windows boot from disc. Or that my WinXP Home version is interacting poorly with my old WinXP Pro version.

I'm starting to get Peeved. I only upgraded because I wanted a quick solution to get my PC running again. Now it's taking almost as long as if I would have ordered a prebuilt from Alienware or Cyber or whatever.

Any advice on the install is appreciated. My plan tonight is to bring the pc to the shop i bought the stuff at last night and see if they can load xp. If they can't, I'll either return everything (at a loss) and wait and order one online, or just buy a cheap SATAII, throw out the need for the extra IDE card in the PCI slot and rebuild all of my data manually using the two old hard-drives.

I'm seriously at a loss. Any advice from you folks would be appreciated. As you can tell my Tech level is pretty low.

Mado

 

[manimal]

I dont have that specific Intel board, I have a DP965LT wich shouldnt be too different. They are very stable boards but dont do a lick of overclocking and have some buggy behavior with usb devices as well. Make sure to update all the drivers from the INTEL site and update the bios as well since my board was a nightmare to deal with before the january bios updates from intel. People use intel board for stabilty and ease and if your board does not give you that then definately return it and dont take any crap from that system builder since he sold you a defective product and should have tested it before handing it off to you.

If you do end up giving that board back look at the gygabite GA965PS3 or the GA965PDS3. Its a very stable board and will give you more upgrade options down the road and if you ever want to go quad or overclock it will give you solid options. on New egg the S3 sells for under $100 on ocassion.


M


If you do retry to reload xp yourself. Reformat the HD before you reinstall so no conflicts happen.

 

[imported_Mado]

Thanks Manimal,

Since I'm low on the technical pole, this may seem like a goofy question. If I reformat the HDD, do I lose all data currently stored on it? Otherwise, maybe it would be better to get off IDE and purchase a SATAII HDD. Then I could eliminate the necessity of the pci card that's sole purpose is to provide extra IDE slots.

Seems like the best route, but my original intent was just to get my computer working. Now, except for a PSU, Case, and GPU I have a completely new (though not awesome) system.

I should have thought all this through before my first visit to the builder's shop.

Thanks again for the response. And if you know anything about the data integrity during a reformat I'm curious to know the answer.

Mado

 

[manimal]

sadly you do lose all data currently on the Harddrive if you reformat it unless the HD is partitioned into 2 or more partitions. Since your computer was made for you it prolly only had one partition unless you say so otherwise.


Something you can try to save your data is to do a XP fix off the XP install disks. Insert the XP disk, let it run and load, then off the first screen click install-do not click repair since that version of repair is overly complex. After clicking install follow the instructions till you get to the screen where it asks you what you want to do. At that screen click repair. let it try to repair that install of windows and see if you can get into windows from there.

Do a google search for windows repair and you can see a comprehensive guide on how to repair a installation without reformatting. After backing up I would still recomend doing a clean install to get rid of any old garbage and a start a fresh clean new partition with no bit rot.


M