My roommate finally got all his parts in for his MP athlon system (Tyan Tiger MP S2460 w/2 1.2 ghz) - so we put it all together, but something is going wrong.
The system posts fine, detects all processors and drives, and will go through the standard boot-up procedures.. but whenever we try and install an OS we'll get seemingly random errors. Win2k spits out random stop codes right before it gets to the point of asking where you want to install it - it actually went through almost all the way once before, but then produced an error on some file at last minute and forced us to exit. In desperation we tried installing Win98 (so we could upgrade it to 2k) - but we get similar results with it. It'll act like it's about to install - then either not start copying files from the CD.. or spit out errors causing a reboot. You can read/write files to the HD fine, I tried copying all the installation files from the CD to the HD and running setup from there.. but still got the same error.
We've tried everything we can think of to get this system up and running. The only thing I -know- is wrong is my roommate ordered the wrong RAM. Instead of getting registered DDR he got normal un-registered. I've been told that this ram would only provide a problem if I was trying to use more than 1 stick, but I still get these errors with just 1. Was this person correct? My friend is going to call the place he got the RAM from tomorrow and see about sending it back and exchanging it.. hopefully they'll take it back. :/
We've stripped it down to the basics (motherboard/ram/processor, a hard drive, cd-rom drive, floppy, and vid-card).. but still get the errors. We've switched out the vid-card with another to make sure it wasn't the problem - still get the errors. I've tried changing the BIOS settings as the 2k manual suggests - but they Tyan board doesn't give you access to (m)any advanced features.
Does anyone have any suggestions, or know what's causing this?
Specs:
Tyan Tiger MP S2460
(2x) AMD Athlon MP 1.2
(1x) 256MB PC2100 DDR
Maxtor 40gb ata-100 HD
Hercules 3D Prophet III 4500 64MB (Kyro-II) - also tried with Diamond Viper V770 TNT-2 Ultra
Misc CD/CD-R/DVD Drives
The system posts fine, detects all processors and drives, and will go through the standard boot-up procedures.. but whenever we try and install an OS we'll get seemingly random errors. Win2k spits out random stop codes right before it gets to the point of asking where you want to install it - it actually went through almost all the way once before, but then produced an error on some file at last minute and forced us to exit. In desperation we tried installing Win98 (so we could upgrade it to 2k) - but we get similar results with it. It'll act like it's about to install - then either not start copying files from the CD.. or spit out errors causing a reboot. You can read/write files to the HD fine, I tried copying all the installation files from the CD to the HD and running setup from there.. but still got the same error.
We've tried everything we can think of to get this system up and running. The only thing I -know- is wrong is my roommate ordered the wrong RAM. Instead of getting registered DDR he got normal un-registered. I've been told that this ram would only provide a problem if I was trying to use more than 1 stick, but I still get these errors with just 1. Was this person correct? My friend is going to call the place he got the RAM from tomorrow and see about sending it back and exchanging it.. hopefully they'll take it back. :/
We've stripped it down to the basics (motherboard/ram/processor, a hard drive, cd-rom drive, floppy, and vid-card).. but still get the errors. We've switched out the vid-card with another to make sure it wasn't the problem - still get the errors. I've tried changing the BIOS settings as the 2k manual suggests - but they Tyan board doesn't give you access to (m)any advanced features.
Does anyone have any suggestions, or know what's causing this?
Specs:
Tyan Tiger MP S2460
(2x) AMD Athlon MP 1.2
(1x) 256MB PC2100 DDR
Maxtor 40gb ata-100 HD
Hercules 3D Prophet III 4500 64MB (Kyro-II) - also tried with Diamond Viper V770 TNT-2 Ultra
Misc CD/CD-R/DVD Drives
