Puma_rules
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Hi I hope you guys can help as i'm at my wits end! Its a bit long winded please bare with me!
I have recently upgraded my mobo from a Asus p5W DH Deluxe to a Gigabyte EP45-DS4 with a look to upgrading my Core Duo E6600 to a Quad core Q9550It was initially seemed to be a good install, windows XP seemed to install ok, until it got to the set up within windows after the language and networking options. Once the system rebooted and got to the windows boot screen the bar would run accross the screen for 10-15 seconds and then the system hung and froze. I then tried SAFE mode and got a very brief blue screen of death and then the system restarted.
After multiple attempts to source the problem I left my 1tb Samsung Spinpoint hard drive (with XP) and my EVGA GPU 9600GT installed
BUT I removed:
all other sata drives from the mobo (x3)
one of the sticks of OCZ 2GB RAM
both DVD drives Samsung SH-S162 and Samsung SM-308
After doing this the system work perfectly. I then reinstalled all of the above one at a time, however when I got to the DVD drives the same problem occured, I tried both together and then each in turn trying both as master or cable select modes. Plus I tried a different IDE cable but the system continues to hang at the same palce.
The drive is recongised during CMOS and in BIOS. I have also tried disabling the drives from the boot up sequence in BIOS.
Interestingly the system will run under safe mode.
As a final note when the system loaded without the drives connected by IDE, I tried connecting it and searching for new hardware, the drive was found but then the system froze.
All components appeared to be functioing corrently before I upgraded and installed the new Motherboard.
I look forward to any ideas and suggestions
I have recently upgraded my mobo from a Asus p5W DH Deluxe to a Gigabyte EP45-DS4 with a look to upgrading my Core Duo E6600 to a Quad core Q9550It was initially seemed to be a good install, windows XP seemed to install ok, until it got to the set up within windows after the language and networking options. Once the system rebooted and got to the windows boot screen the bar would run accross the screen for 10-15 seconds and then the system hung and froze. I then tried SAFE mode and got a very brief blue screen of death and then the system restarted.
After multiple attempts to source the problem I left my 1tb Samsung Spinpoint hard drive (with XP) and my EVGA GPU 9600GT installed
BUT I removed:
all other sata drives from the mobo (x3)
one of the sticks of OCZ 2GB RAM
both DVD drives Samsung SH-S162 and Samsung SM-308
After doing this the system work perfectly. I then reinstalled all of the above one at a time, however when I got to the DVD drives the same problem occured, I tried both together and then each in turn trying both as master or cable select modes. Plus I tried a different IDE cable but the system continues to hang at the same palce.
The drive is recongised during CMOS and in BIOS. I have also tried disabling the drives from the boot up sequence in BIOS.
Interestingly the system will run under safe mode.
As a final note when the system loaded without the drives connected by IDE, I tried connecting it and searching for new hardware, the drive was found but then the system froze.
All components appeared to be functioing corrently before I upgraded and installed the new Motherboard.
I look forward to any ideas and suggestions
