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Problem...is it the motherboard/dirty power?

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imported_waldo

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So, I ma working on my nephews old machine he has lying around....it is a PIII 800 mhz (yes I know it is old.) It has 768 ram, and a 60 gig new maxtor hard drive, with a Tyan Trinity 400 motherboard. I have uninstalled everything else. I can't seem to get Win XP Pro to work on it properly. It appears to get a corrupt file every time. I took the hard drive out and installed XP Pro on the hard drive using my machine (Dual Xeons, PC-DL etc.) and the install worked fine, put the hard drive in the old machine, and it locked up..any thoughts?

I have run memtest, and it came out fine...so it isn't the memory. All that I cna think of is a dirty power supply (which I haven't swapped out yet), or the motherboard has bit the dust, but it boots and recognizes everything, just can't load the OS
 
Do a quick visual check for bulging caps. That was a fairly common problem for that era. If there are any leaking ones, the board is on it's way to the big swap meet in the sky.
 
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