wolfworx
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After much trouble-shooting, I am beginning to believe I have some sort of processor or motherboard failure. The system uses an Asus K8V (socket 754) with AMD Athlon 64.
Basic symptom: I cannot install an operating system. I have tried Win Xp, Win 98SE and even Linux 8.0. I have gotten it to begin the install but the install hangs before it completes. In the Xp install, the early phase runs normally but hangs shortly after the first reboot.
I have tried with different memory, drives and graphics cards, but get identical failures.
The drawback with replacing the processor and mothterboard is the fact that a new board uses DDR2 memory and does not use AGP graphics cards. Also, new boards prefer SATA drives. It appears my DDR memory and AGP card is worthless junk and it would be cheaper to buy a new computer (with Vista instead of Xp) than to try to get this one working.
Does anyone have any other suggestions?
Basic symptom: I cannot install an operating system. I have tried Win Xp, Win 98SE and even Linux 8.0. I have gotten it to begin the install but the install hangs before it completes. In the Xp install, the early phase runs normally but hangs shortly after the first reboot.
I have tried with different memory, drives and graphics cards, but get identical failures.
The drawback with replacing the processor and mothterboard is the fact that a new board uses DDR2 memory and does not use AGP graphics cards. Also, new boards prefer SATA drives. It appears my DDR memory and AGP card is worthless junk and it would be cheaper to buy a new computer (with Vista instead of Xp) than to try to get this one working.
Does anyone have any other suggestions?