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New build won't boot

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imported_jazzie142

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I am building a new system. I installed motherboard, memory, processor, video card, cdrom, hard drive and psu. Everything went fine until I tried to install the operating system (xp pro sp2). I booted to the cd it went thought the processor of install components I'm not sure exactly what is said, then it says windows will restart your system. Normally it should have booted to windows to finish the installation but instead it when back to the first screen installing components. It has done this 5 times. I have formatted the hard drive 5 times. I tried 3 different copies of xp, three cd/dvdroms, three different hard drives. It still does the same thing.

I thought is was way the memory was installed (first two slots yellow/orange) so I installed the memory in orange slots only. Now system will not boot at all. I get slow constant beeps. I really need help.

Thanks

DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D
SAPPHIRE Radeon X1800XT
FSP Group (Fortron Source) FX600-GLN
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Dual Channel Platinum System Memory
West Digital 25GB IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive
 
Put the memory back how you had it. Will it boot then? set the BIOS to boot to the harddrive only.
 
Try using only one stick of RAM. Also, after the initial installation process finishes (copying setup files), make sure you boot off of the hard drive, not the cd-rom.
 
I tired both suggestion. It will not boot with one stick of ram. I disable all boot devices except the hard drive I get the disk boot failure. It will boot with the memory in slot 1+2.
 
Hmm, maybe pull everything and start over. Make sure you have everything seated properly. Try a different video card, try a different power supply (if available). My guess though is that RMAing the mobo is what it's going to take to fix it.
 
Hi Jazzie

Unfortunaty, DFI boards dont work really well with kingston ram. Try another set of ram and see if that will work.

You can find a list of recommended ram for DFI boards on DFI-street.com ->> recommendations forum ->> ram sticky at top

Sorry too lazy to link. Goodluck!
 
Oops ;-p

Firstly, when you used 1 stick of ram did you put it in the outer most orange slot?

Also try this: do a cmos clear and then goto bios -> load optimized settings

if that doesnt work, goto DFI-street forums, they've got actual DFI techies that may be able to help you more than we can.
 
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