Help please! Windows installation issue, new mobo

[SirFooK'nG]

I had a faulty Gigabyte mobo once, brand new out of the box. Also let me get to a certain point, sometimes further, other times sooner when installing Windows... Swapped the board out and it solved my problem. Got so many BSOD's with the faulty one, and lots of different types, not all the same...

 

[latro]

Thanx guys for all the input, but i still have not been able to rectify the problem. I have tried everything under the sun (ok probably not everything lol) including all the tips you guys gave. Only thing I didnt do yet is exchange the Power supply. I will try that next month lol. Damn 700w PSU's are expensive! The prices arent really inline imo since u can get a 450w at R150 +/- these days, where a 600w+ is retailing for R800 and up . I'm gonna try phoning Asus later on and see if they have a solution, but everything on their forum/faq for this MB didnt help.

I think the neighbors are probably contemplating calling the cops from all the swearing going on at my place lol

 

[CrzWaco]

What OS do you run? x32 or x64?

Earlier Vista also could not install with more than 2 GB of RAM. This has since been sorted out.

Windows xp 32 (Windows 64 not very good and old as hell)
Windows 7 32 since I never bought vista.
Ubunto and Linux Mint 64bit Can't remember what happened then.
And yes I know that 32bit does not read the full 4gigs.
Flashed my bios with the latest drivers for that as well.

AfricanTech Thanks will try to see if it can be done.

 

[ChilliGirl]

Windows xp 32 (Windows 64 not very good and old as hell)
Windows 7 32 since I never bought vista.
Ubunto and Linux Mint 64bit Can't remember what happened then.
And yes I know that 32bit does not read the full 4gigs.
Flashed my bios with the latest drivers for that as well.

AfricanTech Thanks will try to see if it can be done.

Yes sadly x32 bit does not do very well with more than 3GB of RAM. Flashing the bios wont help as it is a software limitation. You need to run x64 bit versions of XP or 7 if you want to make use of the full capabilities of your RAM.


@ the OP have you removed your cmos battery & reset the board that way? Very slim chance this will help but as you have looked at all/most other options there is still that or flashing your BIOS with the latest version avail for your board-version.

 

[latro]

@ the OP have you removed your cmos battery & reset the board that way? Very slim chance this will help but as you have looked at all/most other options there is still that or flashing your BIOS with the latest version avail for your board-version.

Yup.Done the jumper reset thing, the battery removal thing, and have also flashed the bios to the latest version right after the first two resets happened. that didn't even help.So many BSOD's and plain resets.

 

[EasyUp Web Hosting]

I had a faulty Gigabyte mobo once, brand new out of the box. Also let me get to a certain point, sometimes further, other times sooner when installing Windows... Swapped the board out and it solved my problem. Got so many BSOD's with the faulty one, and lots of different types, not all the same...

I'm going with faulty mobo as well.

Is your display card passively cooled?

 

[latro]

I'm going with faulty mobo as well.

Is your display card passively cooled?

Well, the g210 i got has a fan thats constantly running. I just got off the phone with Chris @ Asus SA and he told me that I should test another PSU because their P55 boards draws a lot of peak power once the CPU (I5) kicks in with a ''feature that automatically OC's it about 600mhz'' . I'll try disable all those features and see if it helps, otherwise i'll just try and get another PSU to test with.I'm not too smart with all the overclocking stuff. I see you got your I5 750 on the same motherboard to a healthy 3.6Ghz Shark? Nice.

 

[Dan C]

I had similar problem awhile back. Tried another hard drive and problem vanished

 

[latro]

I had similar problem awhile back. Tried another hard drive and problem vanished

Hmmm, thats something I didn't try yet.I just assumed the new SATA HDD is fine since i ran a chkdsk on it with no problems. I've got an old 80GB IDE external, will try and install to that. Thanks for the idea.

 

[AfricanTech]

I had similar problem awhile back. Tried another hard drive and problem vanished

Heh - this reminds me of a problem we had, umm, 22 years ago, built a machine and for love or money this damn thing would just hang - eventually, we swopped the Teac Stiffy drive for a Hitachi (I think - doesn't really matter) and the machine worked perfectly. Put the Teac into another machine and that worked perfectly as well. So it was a hardware level incompatibility based on the particular combination of hardware in that particular box.

Good luck guys

 

[EasyUp Web Hosting]

Well, the g210 i got has a fan thats constantly running. I just got off the phone with Chris @ Asus SA and he told me that I should test another PSU because their P55 boards draws a lot of peak power once the CPU (I5) kicks in with a ''feature that automatically OC's it about 600mhz'' . I'll try disable all those features and see if it helps, otherwise i'll just try and get another PSU to test with.I'm not too smart with all the overclocking stuff. I see you got your I5 750 on the same motherboard to a healthy 3.6Ghz Shark? Nice.

Yeah, got a Cogage True Spirit (+-R350) with a 85cfm fan (+-R110) and it runs like a dream. Can go higher, but no need.

Where is SWCity?

Heh - this reminds me of a problem we had, umm, 22 years ago, built a machine and for love or money this damn thing would just hang - eventually, we swopped the Teac Stiffy drive for a Hitachi (I think - doesn't really matter) and the machine worked perfectly. Put the Teac into another machine and that worked perfectly as well. So it was a hardware level incompatibility based on the particular combination of hardware in that particular box.

Good luck guys

Rather change to "a couple of years ago"

 

[I am Penguin]

I had the same issue with a Zotac Motherboard, it all ended up to be the locally assembled Corex desktop RAM sticks. One on testing via a dos program failed on 27% continually and the other on about 60% randomly. Both sticks was brand new and never used before. I blamed the Mobo before I ran these tests.

 

[ponder]

latro, download (use your imagination here) Micro-Scope PC diagnostic suite. Boot from the CD and run the tests, it's quite thorough.

 

[latro]

Yeah, got a Cogage True Spirit (+-R350) with a 85cfm fan (+-R110) and it runs like a dream. Can go higher, but no need.

Where is SWCity?

Stormwind City- WOW . I'm in Pietersburg btw. Once I got my stuff setup, and got those or similar coolers that you have, would you mind mailing me the settings you changed to get ur mobo oc'ed like that?

 

[SirFooK'nG]

I had the same issue with a Zotac Motherboard, it all ended up to be the locally assembled Corex desktop RAM sticks. One on testing via a dos program failed on 27% continually and the other on about 60% randomly. Both sticks was brand new and never used before. I blamed the Mobo before I ran these tests.

The OP already did RAM tests.... Still say its the mobo!

 

[latro]

latro, download (use your imagination here) Micro-Scope PC diagnostic suite. Boot from the CD and run the tests, it's quite thorough.

Ok, I've downloaded it and will run and post any irregularities. So far I have been able to install XP Pro, with every single feature the cpu has i.e speedstep etc etc off, AND I also set the bios to only utilize only 1 core of the cpu instead of four. But i still get resets, although not so many. I'm still thinking PSU. But I can't exchange it atm, so i'll just run all the other things to make sure everything else is fine.Thanx for all the help.

 

[I am Penguin]

The OP already did RAM tests.... Still say its the mobo!

Still ... Ram tests are not 100%. I would still borrow another stick just to check in any event. It ,may be the Mobo as well as other hardware components. Power supply? I doubt but cannot believe you need 700W for starters. Graphics card.... maybe.