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Posted by Ed Medlin on August 9, 2007, 7:53 am
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> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for the help on my previous post. As a reminder here is my system:
>
> " just finished building my new rig. Asus P5K Premium MD, 4 gig Crucial
> DDR
> 800, Intel Core 2 Duo E6850, Nvidia GTS 8800, 2 WD Caviar Sata 2 HDD, Sata
> DVD rom, Sata RW DVD." Again, everything shows fine on the POST in the
> bios set up.
>
>
> My system still hangs on installing windows XP or Vista - Have tried both.
> It hangs at different spots. I have made it as far as the copy files
> stage. In either install it starts to copy and then the DVD rom (Lite on
> RW sata drive) seems to stop turning. It is like it is not getting a
> signal to write.
>
> Here is what I have done:
>
> I installed both hard drives in a win xp sp 2 machine and they worked
> fine. I formated them and moved files around
>
> I installed vista on one of the drives while it was in the win xp sp2
> machine so the vista disc is good
>
> I tried installing that drive back into my new rig with vista on it hoping
> that it would boot and the new machine cannot seem to find a bootable
> drive. Seems like that should have worked
>
> I took the lite on Sata DVD RW drive out and put it in the win xp 2
> machine and it worked fine (ran video, transfered files etc)
>
> I have 4 sticks of crucial 1 g ddr2 800 memory. I only installed two at a
> time and keeping them in their pairs tried switching them into the slots.
> So unless they are all bad it should not be the memory. So with only 2
> sticks in at a time in the proper slots I should not be dealing with the
> 3gig 32 bit issue or QVL (this memory is approved for 2 slots in this MB)
>
> My graphics card works fine and it would appear that the cpu works fine
> (not sure how to test these)
>
> My audigy 2 sound card does not seem to be an issue
>
> My power supply is an Anetc Phantom 500w and that seems to be working
> fine. Heat sink is a Thermaltake 120a. seems to keep the cpu at around
> room temp. It is very big though.
>
> The only thing I have changed in the Bios is the boot order (cdrom first),
> disabled the 3.5" 1.44 floppy, and disabled the onboard sound so there is
> no conflict.
>
> I'm really hoping it is not the MB. Any thoughts guys. I'm pretty much
> at a loss here. Config issues?
>
Try the CD/DVD player from your other system. I had similiar problems with a
SATA LiteOn DVD/RW on my new system. I had the exact drive in an IDE
interface and it worked fine. Just a guess.
Ed
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>
> Thanks for the help on my previous post. As a reminder here is my system:
>
> " just finished building my new rig. Asus P5K Premium MD, 4 gig Crucial
> DDR
> 800, Intel Core 2 Duo E6850, Nvidia GTS 8800, 2 WD Caviar Sata 2 HDD, Sata
> DVD rom, Sata RW DVD." Again, everything shows fine on the POST in the
> bios set up.
>
>
> My system still hangs on installing windows XP or Vista - Have tried both.
> It hangs at different spots. I have made it as far as the copy files
> stage. In either install it starts to copy and then the DVD rom (Lite on
> RW sata drive) seems to stop turning. It is like it is not getting a
> signal to write.
>
> Here is what I have done:
>
> I installed both hard drives in a win xp sp 2 machine and they worked
> fine. I formated them and moved files around
>
> I installed vista on one of the drives while it was in the win xp sp2
> machine so the vista disc is good
>
> I tried installing that drive back into my new rig with vista on it hoping
> that it would boot and the new machine cannot seem to find a bootable
> drive. Seems like that should have worked
>
> I took the lite on Sata DVD RW drive out and put it in the win xp 2
> machine and it worked fine (ran video, transfered files etc)
>
> I have 4 sticks of crucial 1 g ddr2 800 memory. I only installed two at a
> time and keeping them in their pairs tried switching them into the slots.
> So unless they are all bad it should not be the memory. So with only 2
> sticks in at a time in the proper slots I should not be dealing with the
> 3gig 32 bit issue or QVL (this memory is approved for 2 slots in this MB)
>
> My graphics card works fine and it would appear that the cpu works fine
> (not sure how to test these)
>
> My audigy 2 sound card does not seem to be an issue
>
> My power supply is an Anetc Phantom 500w and that seems to be working
> fine. Heat sink is a Thermaltake 120a. seems to keep the cpu at around
> room temp. It is very big though.
>
> The only thing I have changed in the Bios is the boot order (cdrom first),
> disabled the 3.5" 1.44 floppy, and disabled the onboard sound so there is
> no conflict.
>
> I'm really hoping it is not the MB. Any thoughts guys. I'm pretty much
> at a loss here. Config issues?
>