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Very annoying problem on freshly built rig

Mani

Mani

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I have just put together a system with an Asus P4B266, 256 Megs of Samsung (128) and Crucial (128) PC2100, Quadro 4, P4 1.9 GHz in a Lian-Li PC-07 and 300 Watt PS that came with the case. I have been trying it with a Segate 20 GB and a WD 40 GB hard drive both with the same problems described below:

I fired it up and everything posts okay, seems fine. I set my CD-ROM drive as first boot device and get the W2k installation going and it gives me a BSOD saying that the BIOS does not support APIC. I am on the latest BIOS rev 1005. But it suggests a workaround in bypassing this by hitting F7 at the start of the installation. I do this and get another Blue Screen, this time a PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. I have retried a number of times and keep getting hung up on this screen at the same point.

So I decided to try Win ME since I had a disk sitting around. ME gets started installing by doing a scandisk, making sure the drive is okay and copying some setup files from the CD. Then it tells me to restart the computer taking out any floppy disks to continue the installation. I do this, and boot to the hard drive and it says "invalid system disk, replace and hit a key" when it should be just continuing the installation. So I try booting to the CD and it just starts from the beginning again. I have also tried creating an ME boot disk but that doesn't work either.

Does anyone know what could be wrong here? This is getting really frustrating and I have no clue what could be wrong. I have no other PCI devices in and what I have listed are all I have connected to the computer. Thanks in advance for any help.

 
I think I would check your memory. Maybe pull one or the other out. They may not be playing nice together......🙂 Or you could run Memtest-86 to see if you are getting memory errors.

BTW, I have the same board and yes it allows the use of APIC, so your getting data errors from somewhere, thats why I am guessing memory.

Check your 12volt rail voltage in bios, if it is much lower than normal then you might be having a voltage issue. I would try pulling one stick of memory first and making sure your running SPD settings for your OS installation. If you have any aggressive settings (overclocking, mem timings, etc....) on then turn them off while your troubleshooting.

Good luck.
 
Warcon you are my hero. 🙂

I just popped out the Crucial stick and the install is on its way. Thanks man.
 
Mani,

Just out of curiosity, after you finished the install did you try putting the Crucial stick back in? and if you did, did you have any other problems? if so, what type?

Thanks
 
Sorry, never got around to sticking it back in- was borrowing it from a friend so I just returned it to him.
 
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