Ive run into quite the problem

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harv405

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Alright, heres whats going on. I put in the wrong ram into my mobo because I found out the timings needed to be changed for it to work with my mobo. So it messed windows up and I thought I had a virius so I deleted the partition and tried to reinstall windows. Which is didnt let me do. So I ordered a new harddrive thinking it was bad sectors but it turned out it was just the ram. So i took it out and it installed windoes fine. I know idioit. Now the problem comes. I reinstalled windoes and all seems well. Then I install all the drivers and such and restart. What happens then is it gets to the black screen that sats windows xp and has the little green bar moving. Which goes for about 5 minutes then freezes. So I turn it off and back on and then it doesnt detect the HD at all. Then i wait a few minutes and i can get it into safe mood. Do you guys have any idea what could eb wrong I am going crazy and very frusterated. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks
 
the only thing that is wrong is you spelled windows as windoes, as soon as you start spelling it as windows your pc will start running right.
 
Viking said:
the only thing that is wrong is you spelled windows as windoes, as soon as you start spelling it as windows your pc will start running right.
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Yeah, real helpful with that comment... did you have to read a book for sarcasm like that?

Anyway, take out the new stick of ram and everything should run fine, which will allow you to reinstall windows. also when you put your new ram back in go into the bios and under the memory options there should be an option for "set dram timings by spd" or something similar.
 
clear the bios memory and restart the system, also if that doesn't help try reseating the ram thats already in there.
you windows installation might have been corrupted so you might need to reinstall the OS
 
alright I may just clear the HD, reset the bios, reseat the ram then make a new partition and try to reinstall windows. I did a HD test it said 0 bad sectors could there be anything else wrong with the H drive? Thanks
 
could be a problamatic cable on the hard drive but i cant think of anything else right now that would cause a problem
 
alright ill reseat the memory and reset the bios and reformat. If that doesnt take care of it idk what will. Ill let you know. Thanks guys
 
well i did all that and when i turned it on it said CMOS checksum error. Source of my problem? and what does it mean? thanks lee
 
i'm assuming this is after you reset the cmos.... this used to happen i one of my older motherboards. when this message appears you have to go into the bios and set all the options to the settings you need... if you're not sure of the exact settings you need just go to load optimised defaults or load up the fail-safe defaults if that causes a problem.
 
harv405

If this is a new install the problem is likely caused by a conflict between your board and the bios if you've not upgraded it. I ran into exactly this problem when I purchased my Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe. I tried to boot up with two sticks of RAM in Dual channel but to no avail. I resolved it by using a single stick of memory until I was able to install XP then I went to Asus' website and updated the bios and then added my second stick and all is well. This is a well documented problem with this board. The original bios that comes with the board preceded the new AMD chips.

Good luck!

the only thing that is wrong is you spelled windows as windoes, as soon as you start spelling it as windows your pc will start running right.
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Suppose Windows has a reaction to sentences spelled with lower case letters or even worse since Windows is a probler noun that it's spelled with lower case letters? LOL:)
 
thats the same board I have but it has an extra ethernet port. did you read the whole thread? What do I do now? do i reinstall windoes even with the checksum error? then what? Im so frusterated with this and if its not a problem with the hardware and its just settings then I want to get this resoloved. Any help would be appreciated.
 
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alright I cleared the bios and reset everything. the CMOS error is gone. Im formatting and reinstalling now. Ill let you guys know. Thanks.
 
looks like its fixed. I got the drivers from the nvidia site as oppose to asus and that seem to have did it. It was sata drivers i belive. Not sure. Thanks for all your help guys. I appreciate it.
 
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