motherboard

[KoolDrew]

ok, i just put together a 3400+, 512 pc 3200 and 120 gig ide hard drive. i got a msi k8n neo. its a nice board. but anyway, i put it all together nice and neat. pluged in monitor and all. connected the ide to the hard drive and cd drive. i put in a real version of windows xp professional. it came with service pack 2 in it. so i formated the hard drive and whenit copies the files. it keeps comming up as it cant read it. but i hit enter then it goes noraml. cause if you hit enter it tries again, and it works and copies like it should. then the computer restarts like it should to go into set up. well as soon as it gets there it freezez. and wont install. then i keep trying and it get s to 9min then goes to a blue screen of death. i tried different jumpers on the cd drive and hard drive, different cables. ive even installed the 120 gig on my comp, and formated it with no problems with the real xp cd, and the cd drive. but it just seems to give me problems on the 64bit mainboard. i dont know whats wrong. ive tried everything, and ive come to the conclusion its a faulty mother board. but if you have a suggestion let me know.

 

[mechBgon]

What brand/model of RAM, and what voltage are you giving it? Also, is your power supply a high-quality one?

 

[KoolDrew]

the ram is Corsair VS512MB400 512MB DDR400 PC3200. i havent mest with any of the voltages. and the power supply is a 420 and it came with the case. the powersupply is called raidmax. the ram works. i tried it in my comp. its just that i cant get windows to install. it wont go past the set up part

 

[imported_kouch]

can you tell us what the blue screen of death reads, is it the same every time? Sounds like some file is getting currupted in the transfer process.

 

[thermalpaste]

try booting up with an MS-DOS diskette. Goto the i386 directory in the win-xp cd and run winnt.exe. Try this out rather than doing a boot CD install.