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Major install boto problems with ASrock dual 939 board

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fahq1977

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I have been having monster problems with an ASRock board.

I am running:

Athlon X2 3800+ stock cooler and heatsink
512 DDR 400 Geil Ram
2 x 80 GB WD Sata drives in RAID 1 config. Four prong power plug connected, Sata cables connected, sata power cables connected to PSU
Windows XP Home
Antec True power 380W PSU, with 12v up to 24 A

I began building this system because my previous system was crashing regularly on my ECS k7SA board, and some of the caps were bulging, so I decided I had a faulty mobo. I bought the processor and new mobo, kept my old generic 266 DDR ram

After several abortive attempts at install, I was able to get Windows running. I installed the audio drivers and LAN drivers through the mobo CD in windows. Upon reboot, the screen froze during the XP load. This would happen about three out of every four loads. I contacted ASRock customer support and they said to get 400 ram. I bought the Geil RAM and the same thing happened. They then told me to check the CPU fan, which of course is fine.

I was able to get XP running, but it would not consistently boot. I installed some drivers for a sound card, installed some programs, and started getting the blue screen of death about 5-10 seconds into running.

I am now doing a complete reinstall, but am having similar problems. The system simply will not load from the hard drives upon reboot consistently. Is there any way the motherboard is defective? Has the problem been my hard drives all along?

I have been working at this for five days straight and am losing my will to live. I cannot afford much more direct investment in this PC. Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Thanks
 
Try running memtest86 and see if the ram is good. If not that, then I would suggest try running off one hard drive, and run a full surface scandisk on the drives if possible.

If not that, then I would guess replace the PSU, if not that, then motherboard again, if not that, then CPU.

It is not all that uncommon to get a bad part twice in a row.
 
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