I built my brothers machine up here today. Everything seemed to be going fine. I'm useing a DFI Lanparty UT board, so it has some diagnastic LED in the corner. The first run through I have the memory in the 2 orange slots (recommeded by DFI), and the LED's make it all the way through and I start installing windows. At this point I started getting the Blue Screens, one saying the file NTFS.sys caused the error, another said isapnp.sys caused it. Some start a memory dump others do not.
I've tried multiple options, including swapping out the CD drive and swapping out the hard drive with no luck. I even tried 2 completely different versions of windows XP home and it has had no effect.
After doing a search on google for one of the problems, some responses have been that the memory could be bad. Just for fun I moved the memory from the orange slots to the yellow ones and tried again, this time however the LED's on the motherboard wouldn't get past the DRAM detected stage. Adding to that the computer had been on for 2 hours at about 60 degree temp, and the memory modules were very hot, not so much that I couldn't touch them but noticably.
So anyone have any ideas? I'm pretty sure it's the memory however it seems to check out fine in the bios. The only other option I can think of is that it might be the motherboard, but that is only a long shot. Thanks for any help.
EDIT: I'm useing PQI memory as seen here
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-141-152&depa=0
So far i've heard nothing but good things about them, however I suppose even high end makers have some faultly sticks.
I've tried multiple options, including swapping out the CD drive and swapping out the hard drive with no luck. I even tried 2 completely different versions of windows XP home and it has had no effect.
After doing a search on google for one of the problems, some responses have been that the memory could be bad. Just for fun I moved the memory from the orange slots to the yellow ones and tried again, this time however the LED's on the motherboard wouldn't get past the DRAM detected stage. Adding to that the computer had been on for 2 hours at about 60 degree temp, and the memory modules were very hot, not so much that I couldn't touch them but noticably.
So anyone have any ideas? I'm pretty sure it's the memory however it seems to check out fine in the bios. The only other option I can think of is that it might be the motherboard, but that is only a long shot. Thanks for any help.
EDIT: I'm useing PQI memory as seen here
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-141-152&depa=0
So far i've heard nothing but good things about them, however I suppose even high end makers have some faultly sticks.
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