sorry for double-posting in two different Categories, but I need help very urgently...
I am building a barebones system upgrade for a customer and we decided on building him an Athlon64 3200+ system. I picked up the processor, an MSI K8MM motherboard, and a gig (2x512 MB) of Mushkin DDR400 RAM.
Built the system, installed Windows XP, which went smoothly up until right when it starts the "Let's Get Started" screen that walks you through creating user accounts, activation, and such. I got a wierd error saying something about the registry not loading properly right before the wizard began; went through the wizard OK but then it took FOREVER to load the desktop. I rebooted, and then I was not able to get a desktop up again, it would just sit at the blue screen with the Windows XP logo forever (the one you normally see very very briefly, if at all, before the logon/Welcome screen appears).
We have narrowed the problem down to RAM, motherboard, or CPU, but are not able yet to pinpoint it beyond that. We do not have extra DDR400 lying around to test it with, nor do we have any other Socket754 platforms around to swap CPUs/mobos with.
I am wondering if there are perhaps any known issues with the MSI K8MM that I might be overlooking due to ignorance of them (issues with RAM timings, voltages, or any other BIOS tweaks) as I do not want to have our vendor swap the board out for me and still have the same problems with board #2. And the customer is getting impatient because we were hoping to have his PC done Monday evening.
Sorry for such a long post, but PLEASE let me know of any suggestions you might have if any of you have experience with AMD64 systems in general, or the K8MM in particular, if there are any BIOS tweaking issues that I should be aware of that might resolve the problem.
I am building a barebones system upgrade for a customer and we decided on building him an Athlon64 3200+ system. I picked up the processor, an MSI K8MM motherboard, and a gig (2x512 MB) of Mushkin DDR400 RAM.
Built the system, installed Windows XP, which went smoothly up until right when it starts the "Let's Get Started" screen that walks you through creating user accounts, activation, and such. I got a wierd error saying something about the registry not loading properly right before the wizard began; went through the wizard OK but then it took FOREVER to load the desktop. I rebooted, and then I was not able to get a desktop up again, it would just sit at the blue screen with the Windows XP logo forever (the one you normally see very very briefly, if at all, before the logon/Welcome screen appears).
We have narrowed the problem down to RAM, motherboard, or CPU, but are not able yet to pinpoint it beyond that. We do not have extra DDR400 lying around to test it with, nor do we have any other Socket754 platforms around to swap CPUs/mobos with.
I am wondering if there are perhaps any known issues with the MSI K8MM that I might be overlooking due to ignorance of them (issues with RAM timings, voltages, or any other BIOS tweaks) as I do not want to have our vendor swap the board out for me and still have the same problems with board #2. And the customer is getting impatient because we were hoping to have his PC done Monday evening.
Sorry for such a long post, but PLEASE let me know of any suggestions you might have if any of you have experience with AMD64 systems in general, or the K8MM in particular, if there are any BIOS tweaking issues that I should be aware of that might resolve the problem.
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