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please help get XP installed on new rig

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ProBro

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I just assembled a new rig and can't get the XP installation to start without giving me errors. Here is my setup:

MSI K8N Neo 4 Platinum SLI mobo
AMD Athlon 64 X2 toledo 4400+
Gigaram mach 1000 2x1GB PC3200 unbuffered 184-pin SDRAM DIMMS
eVGA 7800GTX KO PCI-e
Plextor PX-716A/SW DVD+RW
Western Digital WD2500KS SATA HD
OCZ 600W PSU
WinXP home edition +SP2

The system seems to pass the POST just fine, the HD and DVD drive are recognized by BIOS. My first thought was problems with drivers for the SATA drive - but I thought SP2 should have that covered. Regardless, I added a floppy drive and used the SATA driver floppy that came with the mobo (not the RAID driver) and it still doesn't work. I've gotten several different error messages upon multiple install attemps. They were:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (4 times)
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (twice)
INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR (once)
driver/system file errors - serial.sys once and acpi.sys thrice

Any ideas? I'm a noob so please don't think twice about asking "stupid" questions.

Thanks,
Kurt
 
You have XP home? XP home dosent do dual core or dual cpu configurations, only XP PRO does. I dont think thats whats causing the problem, but you really should know that. Technically home should run and use only the first core/cpu and ignore the second one defeating the point in dual core/cpu.
 
Wow thanks, I had never heard that before. $92 well spent. :disgust:

Anything else look fishy in my setup? I'd like to know what the heck I can do to get things rolling. This is emasculating.
 
I discovered I had the polarity reversed on my speaker connection. XP home installed after that with no problems.

How can I tell if XP home is/is not recognizing and using both cores of my X2 processor? When in XP home, if I press windows key+pause to get the system properties, it correctly identifies the processor as dual core, but how do I know if its using it or not?
 
Open task manager, you should see 2 cpu graphs.

I believe XP Home will do 2 logical processors, pro will do more (4?).
 
Originally posted by: volrath
Open task manager, you should see 2 cpu graphs.

I believe XP Home will do 2 logical processors, pro will do more (4?).
Click to expand...

Well I have two plots inside my "CPU usage history" so I guess both cores are recognized in XP Home with SP2. I took a screen dump to show this, but I don't know how to post images in this forum.

Thanks for the help guys,
Kurt

 
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