Trying to get new Desktop running..

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Glliw

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Okay, so I just finished building my new desktop today. Here's what it consists of:

XFX PVT98GYDLH GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

SIGMA SHARK SP-585 585W ATX12V V2.01 SLI Ready Power Supply

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

BIOSTAR TA790GXB A2+ AM2+/AM2 AMD 790GX ATX AMD Motherboard

AMD Phenom II X4 940 Deneb 3.0GHz Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Black Edition Processor Model HDZ940XCGIBOX

I get it up to the point where the MOBO gives me the hardware monitor screen that has temp/voltage/etc. I had it going through Windows XP pro installation once, but it froze up once it actually started to install windows.

It gives me one beep upon start up. This beep means no media present. ( insert dikette into floppy drive: A). I do have a floppy drive in this computer, but I tried unplugging both the connector and power from it and it still gave me one beep. No matter what I do, I can't get it to get to installing windows. Help me out here please!

Thanks,
Will
 
Sorry, forgot the ram and drives.

Kingston HyperX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model KHX8500D2K2/4GR

The drives are a cd drive and a dvd drive. Fairly old, but hey, they work.
 
Try removing one stick of memory, if that doesnt work, swap the sticks of memory. If that still doesnt work, try swapping the slots the memory is in, one stick at a time.
 
I just tried pretty much every possible way of combining the ram in and out. No dice. The hardware monitor is posting the voltage for the ram up as 1.936v when the ram is said to be 2.3/2.3v. Is it not getting enough voltage?
 
Okay, finally got it up and going now. The BIOS had floppy drive set as primary boot device. Changed it to the Cd drive and got things going with windows.

Now its at the screen where at the bottom it says Setup is starting windows and the rest is blue except at the top it says windows setup but nothing's happening. Should this take a long time or no?
 
Glliw said:
Okay, finally got it up and going now. The BIOS had floppy drive set as primary boot device. Changed it to the Cd drive and got things going with windows.

Now its at the screen where at the bottom it says Setup is starting windows and the rest is blue except at the top it says windows setup but nothing's happening. Should this take a long time or no?
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Not more than a couple minutes...have you set the correct memory voltages/timings in the bios and whatnot?
 
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