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!
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!
