Lots Of Issues With Intel Board

[willbemcse]

I have Intel D915PBL board Intel.
The board only had one IDE port, so I added Adaptec IDE card and plugged my two ide drives . I also installed the drivers for the ide card during the xp setup.

During the setup xp gives me a message that the cd might be damaged,hit enter to continue the cd is original from MS , I also tried another cd same error. I checked Bios it sees all the hardware . Here is the setup
Intel D915PBL with Kingston ddr2 533 (2X512)
2 WDIDE 120 GB on Adaptec Ultra ATA card(one drive is set as master , second as slave ). For the dvd and dvd burner I am using the ide port on the board . So Whats the issue here ?

 

[Odeen]

Can you duplicate the CD in another computer? Sometimes, the CD might have light damage that prevents a certain drive from being able to read it. A drive that is able to read the CD correctly will generate a correct image, from which you can burn a corrected CD.

Does the installation stop at the same point always? Is it during the initial file copying stage, or after you reboot and XP installs itself in graphical mode?

Can you use a different optical drive? (i.e. - try using the DVD burner for the install)

Are the HDD's set to RAID mode? Can you run Western Digital Data Lifeguard utility and check the drives? Perhaps the drive you're installing on is damaged, and that's causing the installation to abort.

 

[willbemcse]

It stops after the format drive stage(during the initial setup ) before it starts copying files. I am not using RAID just regular ide drives. may be its bad memory . As the board only has one ide port so I am using that port for my dvd and dvd rw , the adaptac card its just a regular card with two ide ports so I can use my two ide drives (one is setup as slave and one as master)

Or should I use fdisk to format the drives first or its a bad board.

 

[Odeen]

Try making a copy of the CD on another computer - it will tell you whether the CD is really damaged.

Try using your other optical drive (i.e. the DVD-RW if you were previously installing off the DVD drive)

Try installing on the other hard drive (since you have two)

Try connecting your two Western Digitals as masters on PCI IDE 1 and PCI IDE 2, instead of being master and slave on a single IDE channel.

 

[willbemcse]

I ran memtest on memory no errors found, I also ran dft on two of my HD no error there also. So memory and hd's are good. I will see if I can try on just one HD.

 

[Benmohr]

Not sure if you have done this but go to the Kingston Web site and do a Memory Search. You can enter your Intel Montherboard part number and it will give you all of the authorized Kingston parts. I had a similar problem, it turned out my kingston memory was not compatible, changed it and all was good.

 

[LTC8K6]

Yeah, I've heard that the bad CD error can be ram. You could bump your ram voltage to see if that helps.

 

[willbemcse]

If the memory was bad then the pc won't boot right ?? as I didn't get any beeps.

 

[Odeen]

No - Memory can either be slightly problematic or completely shot.

I one diagnosed a machine that blew a DIMM - when the DIMM was inserted, all I got was memory error beeps.
Another machine blew a DIMM and lost a CD-ROM drive periodically. The drive letter just disappeared off XP after a few minutes, replaced with a question mark in "My Computer". Changed the memory - problem solved.

Have you tested the actual CD yet? If the hard drives check out, it's down to optical drives, the CD, and the RAM.

 

[LTC8K6]

If the memory was bad then the pc won't boot right ?? as I didn't get any beeps.

Try and tell that to all the folks who can't pass Prime95's blend test.

Your computer can boot and seem to run fine with bad memory. Then you'll try to run something that stresses your system......and crash.

The only way to tell is to test your memory. The easy fix to try is to boost your memory voltage in BIOS by .1 volt.

I was cursing and swearing at my Kingston Hyper-X and it's problems until I noticed that my mobo's default memory voltage was below the Kingston spec. A couple keyboard taps in BIOS and voila! Totally stable at 2-2-2-5 settings.