Hi All,
This is my first build, and for some reason I'm having the following problem: I was being extra careful when putting it together and read all the manuals as I was building it. Anyway, after I finished, I plugged it in for the first boot. It booted fine, and I was able to enter the BIOS. I checked on the configs and made sure all my hardware was recognized and it was. I set everything to fail-safe defaults and changed the boot order to floppy, cd-rom, harddrive. I checked PC Health screen to make sure CPU temp was stable and left it there for about 20 minutes or so. The temp was around 50 degrees C. Everything looked fine. I thought I was in the clear. I was excited that I'd finished building with no major problems. So, I powered down and back up, inserted my Windows XP Pro cd into the drive (a copy of my friend's while my order is still being shipped - I was too excited to wait another week to build). Then it happened. (I celebrated to early). The computer recognized the cd and the screen told me that Windows is checking my hardware configurations... At the bottom of the screen, it was going through files and hardware... Then, after it was seemingly done checking, the screen just became a jumbled, blocky mess. It looked like a scrambled screen with different color blocky lines against a black background. I didn't know what to do, so I pressed ESC and it came out of it. I powered down and tried it again, the same thing happend again. Can someone PLEASE help me out?! What's wrong? It is a bad video card? or is there something wrong with the windows XP install disc? Please help. I'm a Noob and just want my first self-built computer to work. Thanks in advance!!!
My setup:
AMD Athlon64 3200+ CPU w/ Newcastle core
DFI LanParty UT nF3 250Gb Mobo
2 x 512MB OCZ Enhanced Latency DDR400 Memory
Sapphire Radeon 9800Pro Vid card
Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200RPM Harddrive
NEC 3500A 16x DVD burner
LiteOn 52x32x52x16 CD-RW/DVD-ROM
Antec 480W True Blue PSU
ThermalTake Tsunami Dream Tower
THANKS!!
This is my first build, and for some reason I'm having the following problem: I was being extra careful when putting it together and read all the manuals as I was building it. Anyway, after I finished, I plugged it in for the first boot. It booted fine, and I was able to enter the BIOS. I checked on the configs and made sure all my hardware was recognized and it was. I set everything to fail-safe defaults and changed the boot order to floppy, cd-rom, harddrive. I checked PC Health screen to make sure CPU temp was stable and left it there for about 20 minutes or so. The temp was around 50 degrees C. Everything looked fine. I thought I was in the clear. I was excited that I'd finished building with no major problems. So, I powered down and back up, inserted my Windows XP Pro cd into the drive (a copy of my friend's while my order is still being shipped - I was too excited to wait another week to build). Then it happened. (I celebrated to early). The computer recognized the cd and the screen told me that Windows is checking my hardware configurations... At the bottom of the screen, it was going through files and hardware... Then, after it was seemingly done checking, the screen just became a jumbled, blocky mess. It looked like a scrambled screen with different color blocky lines against a black background. I didn't know what to do, so I pressed ESC and it came out of it. I powered down and tried it again, the same thing happend again. Can someone PLEASE help me out?! What's wrong? It is a bad video card? or is there something wrong with the windows XP install disc? Please help. I'm a Noob and just want my first self-built computer to work. Thanks in advance!!!
My setup:
AMD Athlon64 3200+ CPU w/ Newcastle core
DFI LanParty UT nF3 250Gb Mobo
2 x 512MB OCZ Enhanced Latency DDR400 Memory
Sapphire Radeon 9800Pro Vid card
Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200RPM Harddrive
NEC 3500A 16x DVD burner
LiteOn 52x32x52x16 CD-RW/DVD-ROM
Antec 480W True Blue PSU
ThermalTake Tsunami Dream Tower
THANKS!!
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