ECS P4S5A Help

rdudejr

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Mar 1, 2005
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Hey everybody!

About 3 weeks ago I started building a computer. I had an ATX case and a CD-ROM drive that is about 6 years old. I have an ECS P4S5A mobo, a Pentium 4 2.26 processor, 1 GB of Memory Max PC2100 DDR-SDRAM( 128Mx64), a Radeon 8500 128 MB vid card, and an 80 MB IDE HD (i think its WD) Every time i boot them machine and try and boot from a bootable Windows 2000 Pro CD it says Boot Failure.... with no disk I go to Novell Firmware, and most of the time when im getting boot failure and hit enter a few times after about 10 times it freezes totally, and it occasionally freezes in the bios too. I really dont want to buy any more hardware, so can someone help me as to how to fix this issue? I think that it has something to do with the motherboard or BIOS settings. You guys seem like a great bunch and this forum seems to update pretty regularly. Thanks alot!
 

rdudejr

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Mar 1, 2005
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I just worked on it a little more. I changed a setting in the BIOS and turned of quick boot. NOw it counts the ram sectors on boot....and Ive discovered that it freezes before it can even finishing counting. So my main issue then is why is this thing freezing? I dont think it is a heat issue ive got 2 fans (PSU fan and processor fan and heat sink)