need help with a memory problem

[m1ke101]

p4b533-e
p4 2.26
80gb maxtor
alright my roommate just got his stick of p2700 ram from cnetpc (its crucial) and he took out his old sticks of pc2100 and stuck them in. He then stuck in the new memory, and booted his system up at 166, which his old ram could do. We then proceeded to up the fsb up to 175, and it booted at all these speeds, but we tried 180 and it was a no go, so then we thought just go back down. So we tried at 175, and it tried to go into windows, but it was REALLY slow, it was basically stuck at the windows screen, after a couple minutes there was a bsod and it restarted. Then we set it back to 166, and still the same thing. Even switched back in his old ram, and same thing, the hard drive is VERY slow....anyone have any ideas?

 

[emjem]

Just a guess on my part but I would reset the bios back to default and start over with the OC. Otherwise it's possible that some component is damaged from the OC.

 

[m1ke101]

hmmmmm...ok I think it might be his hard drive, but I'm not sure. But theres something I don't understand, its obvious that something messed up in his system, but what? I believe his board has a agp/pci lock so none of those components should be messed up, and I don't know what else could be wrong with it

 

[mechBgon]

Can you double-check that the CPU fan is still plugged in and running?

 

[m1ke101]

alright I tried the crucial in my system, and it works fine, he even booted up my hard drive on his system, but his hard drive seems to be messed up. I can't boot into it

 

[m1ke101]

alright I think we've narrowed it down to his hard drive, but he has a lot of valuable stuff on it that he doesn't want to format. I tried repairing the xp installation, but for someone reason it comes up as a unrecognized partition with the entire drive of free space...which can't be because he has at least 40 gigs of stuff on it....anyone know a way to get it to work?

 

[mechBgon]

Yikes. How about start by running Maxtor PowerMax (download from Maxtor's site) to check for bad sectors, and then boot to the repair console and see if you can get it working with FDISK /MBR.

 

[m1ke101]

damn i think the drive is fubared

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: m1ke101
alright I tried the crucial in my system, and it works fine, he even booted up my hard drive on his system, but his hard drive seems to be messed up. I can't boot into it

No, XP has set drivers that it installs on setup, designed for that mobo and config, if you swap mobos and other major hardware components when you have an XP install for the other setup it will not load, just BSOD.

Its not necessarily the hard drive so make sure.

dan

 

[m1ke101]

Originally posted by: MrFiTTy

Originally posted by: m1ke101 alright I tried the crucial in my system, and it works fine, he even booted up my hard drive on his system, but his hard drive seems to be messed up. I can't boot into it

No, XP has set drivers that it installs on setup, designed for that mobo and config, if you swap mobos and other major hardware components when you have an XP install for the other setup it will not load, just BSOD. Its not necessarily the hard drive so make sure. dan

formatted the drive on his computer, reinstalled windows and wouldn't load up windows the second time....