Give up

[patrickv]

ok after having much hassles and merely a reply from members from my PREVIOUS thread i thought i'd rest my case.
i say it I CANT FIX MY HOME PC

i've try all methods i know i simply won't let me install winXp.
i just called my Local pc store to tell them about the trouble with the motherboard
and they told me to bring it in if i really can't fix it. so i think im gonna give em my pc to have a look

 

[ghost]

Come on dude don't throw in the towel just yet.

Have you tried stripping down the PC just so its running on minimum requirements for the OS install. (remove all but 1 stick of RAM, remove all but 1 CD/DVD ROMS).

Also is it a SATA or IDE HDD?

If its a IDE HDD try to swap the IDE ribbon cable with the CD ROM one and try that...

 

[patrickv]

Come on dude don't throw in the towel just yet.

Have you tried stripping down the PC just so its running on minimum requirements for the OS install. (remove all but 1 stick of RAM, remove all but 1 CD/DVD ROMS).

Also is it a SATA or IDE HDD?

If its a IDE HDD try to swap the IDE ribbon cable with the CD ROM one and try that...

yeah right as if i haven't tried that
i've swapped rams, hard drive types, remove my graphic card,changed sata cables, nothing works bro

 

[ghost]

Got the latest BIOS on your mobo?

 

[patrickv]

Got the latest BIOS on your mobo?

no, i just bought this mobo does it really need BIOS update ?

 

[ghost]

Whats the make n model of the mobo? Just coz you just bought it dont mean its got the latest BIOS.

 

[StrangleHold]

When you get the F6 prompt does it freeze even if you hit F6, in other words does it freeze there no matter what you do? And you can install 2000

 

[patrickv]

When you get the F6 prompt does it freeze even if you hit F6, in other words does it freeze there no matter what you do? And you can install 2000

it FREEZES at that screen, press f6 or not it sits there. i just left it about 20 minutes to see if the setup continues.
No i can't setup 2000, at first with win2k i could get to the partitioner and install but when rebooting to continue the setup it freezes

 

[patrickv]

Whats the make n model of the mobo? Just coz you just bought it dont mean its got the latest BIOS.

here you go
http://www.foxconnchannel.com/product/Motherboards/detail_overview.aspx?ID=en-us0000231

am gonna download BIOS and see what i can do

 

[ghost]

^ worth a shot!

 

[porterjw]

Compare your BIOS version to this list: http://www.foxconnchannel.com/suppo...t_model=945G7MD-8KS2H&product_id=en-us0000231

 

[patrickv]

Compare your BIOS version to this list: http://www.foxconnchannel.com/suppo...t_model=945G7MD-8KS2H&product_id=en-us0000231

those are for windows, i mean, my PC doesn't boot/cannot setup, i already downloaded the proper BIOS too bad i cant boot to the utility/flashbios

 

[StrangleHold]

Have you tried another CD-rom or DVD drive?

 

[paratwa]

For your bio's update, it didn't give you an option to put the bio's on a floppy disk? Can you at least get to the bio's? If you can get to that, then you should be able to boot from a floppy if you set it to be the first boot device.

Sorry if you already mentioned that you could not get to your bio's screen. If you did I did not see it.

 

[brian]

posted in your other forum... guess it should of been here but...

 

[patrickv]

i already sent my home pc in last week to the stores (friday) and i called the guys today and ask them how they were progressing.
Apparently they solve the problem but they told me the error was because i did not sit the processor well in place in place on the mobo.

geez after all those sweating and stuff , i didn't sit the CPU tightly ?
how did i miss that, i feel like a complete n00b infront of the techs.
guess ive been 0wnd..lol

 

[Quentin_T]

i already sent my home pc in last week to the stores (friday) and i called the guys today and ask them how they were progressing.
Apparently they solve the problem but they told me the error was because i did not sit the processor well in place in place on the mobo.

geez after all those sweating and stuff , i didn't sit the CPU tightly ?
how did i miss that, i feel like a complete n00b infront of the techs.
guess ive been 0wnd..lol

Oh well, s*** happens, all you needed was another set of eyes. It's usually the dumb stuff we miss. I bought my computer off newegg in pieces, and had almost no experience with the newer technologies (i.e. dual channel ram or DDR2 for that mattter). Set it all up, start installing Vista, and it would hang on me. I went for a week like this getting ready to RMA everything! I was so frustrated... Anyway, all the family came over for Easter and my cousin's BF takes a look, and says, aren't you running dual channel memory? At first I'm unsure of what that actually means, till he points out the two yellow memory slots. Of course they are staggered and I had them right next to each other (1 Yellow, 1 black). Move 1 memory stick and windows fires right up. I felt like an ID-10-T, but now I know better. And that's the important part. Then next time you set up a PC, you will be checking that processor like crazy, and you know that's not your problem.