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New Problems with newly built pc.

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jononew22

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A friend helped me with building my PC. He FINALLY got windows xp installed which was a drag (see the "Need Help Building First PC" thread posted by me to see what im talkin about) well here's the thing. He got windows installed and I was on the desktop tryin to install some stuff when it just froze up. so i restarted and the same thing happened after about 5 minutes of it being on the desktop. so I was going to attempt reinstalling windows . so i set the cdrom to boot to install windows. It checked the HD and said it needed to reboot and then the monitor never came back on. so the next time i just went to repair the windows that was already installed and it hung at 27%. I'm not quite sure what to do now...I was thinking about changing the voltages like one guy said to in the other thread. PLEASE hit me back with some suggestions. here are my parts

DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra-D
AMD 3200+ Athlon64 socket 939
Twin MOS dual channel 512x2 DDR PC-3200
Rosewill Radeon x800xl PCI Express
ViewSonic 17" LCD display Monitor 8ms
LiteOn combodrive cdrw+dvd-rom
Powersupply...Frtrn 530W
HD 160gb 7200rpm SATA western digital
Windows XP professional
 
Could you edit your post to include what memory voltage you're using? And you have all four power cables hooked up, right? 24-pin, 4-pin ATX12V, 4-pin HDD-style, 4-pin floppy-style?
 
Whatever you do don't mess with the voltages. I have never had to adjust voltages in all the years of building computers. If it doesn't run stock something is wrong.

Sure looks like an overheating problem. Did you ever run memtest? It boots and runs off a floppy or CD, so no OS or hd is required.

edit: I haven't yet worked with a DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra-D, so do what mechBgon suggests too.
 
i'll say it again. add some volts to this thing. your board is undervolting anyway, at least give it the 1.4v it needs.

last i saw, your friend said the core is reading 1.38 in bios. i'm not talking 1.6v or anything. set in genies this voltage
vid-1.35
special-110%
ldt 1.2 (the lowest)
chip 1.5 (the lowest)
dram 2.7 minimum. it would be fine with as much as 2.9 but you probably don't need that.

the post i linked you to at dfi.street has been used by many people in your shoes. thats from a dfi tech who wrote that. you need to give it proper volts and those are perfectly safe. the vid and the special should give you a reading of about 1.45 core in bios.

i'm not trying to give you something that will fry your board or chip i'm just telling you my experience. if you want to be ultra careful, just set it to vid 1.4 and special 104% which should give you around 1.42 but from the problems you've been having in your shoes i'd just as soon get the rig running and then back off the volts.

heres a voltage table,

http://www.angrygames.com/AMD_CPU/AMD_64/AMD_64.htm

edit=btw i'm not sure this is the entire problem but you need to give it a fighting chance 🙂
 
Set the memory voltage to 2.8 volts too. edit: yeah, or try 2.7 to start with if you want.
 
just go with everything stock, and only plug in one stick of RAM, an optical drive, hard drive, and maybe plug in some old PCI video card in it and see if you can install stuff for now. check jumpers, check power connections, etc etc
 
well i changed the voltages to what you guys said and at least the monitor comes back on when i reboot ha. but now when it gets to the part where it's going to install stuff to prepare it to install XP it hangs at 11% (driver.cab) everytime. so....any suggestions on this?
 
if that means that i stole it or something....then no...it's perfectly legal bought from newegg....

I also did a chkdsk and it found that the HD had one or more unrecoverable problems....i dont know if this means it's messed up completely or what...I'm running a full format on it (not quick)...any ideas are helpful
 
When i did the long format it got to 100% and then just stayed there for like 15 minutes....about an hour and a half of format and it sticks on 100%...what the heck is with this thing?

I'm gonna try formatting again....*sigh*
 
How can it be warez I bought it from newegg...it's legit...Ive installed it before

last time i checked they dont sell pirated software... could I be wrong??
 
dont mean to sound cocky or rude...i just dont understand why you guys think it is warez

oh yeah...just ran the long format...it did it and now it's copying the dlls and stuff...but it might have just hung on 57%...
 
Sounds like a bad hard drive. My Windows install was hanging too, especially in the format portion, and I found out my Raptor was DOA. You might want to setup an advance RMA for the drive.
 
hmmm...that sucks...the hard drive had windows xp installed on it...but then it kept freezing on desktop so i thought i'd try reinstalling. so why wouldnt it accept it again?
the hard drive definitely wasent DOA at first because it had it installed...but i don't know what's going on now
 
alright Pr0d1gy...I'm just gonna take your advice and send the dang thing back for a new one. it froze on a long format so im pretty much fed up with it (it had never done that before) I'm guessing it's pretty much fried. oh well...just the way it goes sometimes i guess...thanks for all your help anyway guys.
 
Is the Twinmos UTT?

I'd give it 2.8V.

Try 2.9, and 3.0V if that fails.

You can push up to 3.4V and still be safe.

 
you think it could be the RAM not getting enough voltage that's making it lock up? cuz i think it is prolly the HD from what the prodigy guy said
 
didn't you say you had bad sectors before? i agree with pr0digy at this point. you friend have an extra you can swap in and check?
 
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