Pck21
New Member
Holy jeebus am I ticked off and frustrated. I'll keep this post PG, but I make no guarantees. Allow me to let you in to my world with a little back story and then the problem.
Basically, my parent's old Gateway 827GM was acting wonky so I decided to upgrade some of the components on their dime. I got a new Asus M3978-EM mobo, WD 320GB SATA hd, AMD 5000+ X2 black edition CPU, 4GBs of OCZ Reaper DDR2 ram, and a Corsair 650TX PSU. I put it all in this afternoon and everything went swimmingly. However, when I went to install XP (the original, pre-SP1 edition) I could only get to the "Windows is Setting Up..." and then I would get the BSOD. That was problem number 1.
To solve said problem, I got the genius idea of removing the CMOS battery (as there were no jumpers) and reset the CMOS. Now I can't get past the BIOS splash screen.
Can anyone help me figure why I can't get past the splash screen and/or the Windows issue as well? I'm about to go mad here and I'm at my wit's end!
Basically, my parent's old Gateway 827GM was acting wonky so I decided to upgrade some of the components on their dime. I got a new Asus M3978-EM mobo, WD 320GB SATA hd, AMD 5000+ X2 black edition CPU, 4GBs of OCZ Reaper DDR2 ram, and a Corsair 650TX PSU. I put it all in this afternoon and everything went swimmingly. However, when I went to install XP (the original, pre-SP1 edition) I could only get to the "Windows is Setting Up..." and then I would get the BSOD. That was problem number 1.
To solve said problem, I got the genius idea of removing the CMOS battery (as there were no jumpers) and reset the CMOS. Now I can't get past the BIOS splash screen.
Can anyone help me figure why I can't get past the splash screen and/or the Windows issue as well? I'm about to go mad here and I'm at my wit's end!