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P4 Rig just being built....major problems

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JUNGLEROTT

Junior Member
Built a new system over the weekend. BTW this is my 5th time so I am going into it with a good idea of what to do.
P4 2.533ghz
512 rdram
ATI Radeon 8500 AIW
SB Audigy
60gig WD hard drive
350w power supply
ASUS P4T533C mother board
usb mouse and keyboard

Ok here goes. Put the cpu on the mobo and checked for power...the mobo light was on, but it would not turn on. Thought maybe for some reason the hd/cdrom needed to be hooked up...hooked up everything...still no power. Called a local pc store... they recommended unconnecting all of the hd/cdrom ide ribbons and power cables. Woot ..now I get power, fans turn on, everything seems fine. Load up xp and install all drivers. Drivers were dl from another comp so they are the latest ones. System seems fine. I right click on the desktop to create a new folder and the machine crashes. The blue screen of death comes up and suggests I start up in safe mode....It won't work, no safe mode, no last known config..nothing. I tried this on multiple hard drives and still nothing. I kinda think it is the mobo or the power supply because of my initial problems. I tried different ide ribbons just in case. Does anyone know of any issues with this mobo and what I have hokked up to it

 
hi,
definitely check ram like lilithtech says, docmemory link will allow you to create a bootdisk with the tester on it. i think that memtest will also.
also, swap out ps if you have another one that you can test with.
hope this helps
 
hi,
definitely the ram then since it wont read size correctly. ocz has gotten quite the reputation for bad ram around here. do a search if you are interested.
might i reccomend samsung ram? always has worked well for me.
good luckl
 
Well, it was the ram. I got some new ram and now I have a new problem. XP install goes fine but after I install all the latest drivers it crashes after like 20 minutes. I have reinstalled XP and only the vid and sound card drivers....it seems fine. I think I have it narrowed down to the USB2 drivers creating the problem. Does anyone know of any issues out there with xp and the asus usb2 drivers? Or is anyone having the same issue?
 
I was using the drivers that came with the mobo. On another install I used drivers downloaded from the Asus website specific to my mobo. Do I have to use the Asus driver or can I use the generic ones that you posted?
 
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