Major Probs with XP!!

Needing some help guys. It's a long story, and so I'm going to try and be as descriptive as possible. Any solutions are very helpful.

Yesterday I was doing a major upgrade to my computer, brand new case and also a new CPU. The case is a Thermaltake case, with 5 fans, and 2 cathode lights. The reason I say this is because maybe power can be an issue. Not really sure. I've got the case with that setup, 2 hard drives, a cd burner, and a dvd player, using a 400 watt power supply. Is that enough?

I installed everything except for the CPU and left my old 2 ghz celeron in. It worked perfectly with all things running. When I installed my new 3.2 ghz p4, and put all the equipment back together (may be where a problem occurred as well) it hung on the Windows loading screen with the blue bar. So, I booted in safe mode and it stopped at the agp440.sys loading. I read online that this was a video driver and tried fixing it, but no luck in logging in to recover. So, I formatted. Now, on the format is where problem 2 occurred.

The format went fine, but the reinstallation screwed up. It would get past where you load the key, and start copying files, then it would throw a memory dump error. 2 times it did this. Finally, it installed fine and correctly. But, it wasn't fast and it was sticking too much. Figured where it was a bad install. When installing other programs, it hung a few times and had to be restarted. It worked probably 75% of the time on installing, but I figured that'd just get worse because something isn't right in it.

The weird thing is Linux loaded fine on my second hard drive. No troubles. But when trying to install XP on second hard drive, same memory dump problem occurred.

Anyone have any clue what could be the prob? I have an MSI board, 3.2 ghz celeron, 1 gig ram, ATI 128 mb video card, 200 gig hard drive, 2nd 40 gig hard drive. Bout all the specs I have at hand. Really frustrating after sinking a couple hundred bucks in the case mod and CPU upgrade. Any help is appreciated very much! Thanks!

 

check your power requirements here
http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/

 

Thanks for the website. Unfortunately, it's showing a max of 300 or so watts for my setup, and I've got a 400 watt. Was kind of hoping it was just the power. Thing is, I put my 2 ghz celeron back in with the current windows installation, and the thing works perfectly. Think the processor could've gotten damaged during shipping?

 

they usually pack them pretty good get it replaced under warranty

 

Intel's warranty? Think that's what it is? Would that cause these errors? Thanks again for the help

 

if the cpu does not work then the computer does not post

 

is there any way the cpu can post but glitch sometimes?

 

You may want to check your BIOS settings. Did it adjust properly for the new chip? Might want to "load optimized defaults".
You may need to upgrade bios for support for your new chip...

 

if it posts then the problem is elsewhere

 

My BIOS was way behind, and it appears that was what was causing the problem, but now I'm at an even worse condition. I used the MSI utility to automatically select and flash the BIOS. Thing is, it must've failed, because now my computer won't boot or even load anything. Just a blank screen, then after 5/10 minutes, powers off. Don't see how MSI could mess up with that utility. Think it's something other than BIOS?

 

what MSI board?

 

Celeron runs on a 400 Front side buss. The 3.2 runs on an 800 and the power requirements are also different. Could be that the mobo won't support the 3.2

 

It's an 865PE-Neo2

 

O.K. that's not the problem then

They have a bios recovery feature here:

http://www.msicomputer.com/support/bios_result.asp Make sure you read the part # on the mobo before you select the new bios as they list six different 865 Neo boards.

 

reset the cmos