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built system, and cannot get Windows to install

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SkinnyVinny

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I've built a new system, and cannot get Windows to complete an install. It gets about 1/2 way through, and then blue screens on me. I've tried 2 different WinXP disks, Vista, and Win98, all the same results. I've got only the bare min; mb, hd, vid card, and RAM. Although everything is new, I've swapped out all the parts except the processor, and RAM, still same result. I d/l and ran a utility to test the RAM, and it checked out. Here's what I have;

Asus P5N E SLI
Seagate 500gb hd
MSI MX8600GT Vid card
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
(2) 1gb Microx PC5300 667MHz DDR2 RAM

Someone suggested I flash the bios. They said there should be a utility on the disk that came with the mb. I could not find it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have an $800 paperwieght right now. My only next option is to drop it off at Best Buy or something like that.

Thanks
Vince
 
take out and unplug everything you dont need. i had a wireless pci card and it was causing me not being able to install, sorry i jsut saw that you only have bare min. umm have an extra harddrive around?
 
Do you have APIC enabled or disabled in your bios?
 
Disable it and try again.
 
It indicates in the manual that it can be disabled, but it's not an active field. It's grayed out, and I cannot access it to change it???
 
im putting my cash on bad ram, try memtest :)
i was in a similair position, it couldn't copy the files from the disc to the hdd, and kept telling me that files on the disc were corrupt, went through like 5 discs, still no go, bios has memtest integrated, came up with loads of errors, RMA'd the ram and didn't have any problems from there on :)
 
SkinnyVinny said:
i tried the test. mem passed
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all of the tests? a lot of times the errors start around test 4 and happen the most in test 5, my ram aces tests 1&2 easily.
 
The hd is Seagate. I don't know the model number, but I swapped it out w/another hd, and the same thing happened

The utility that ran the RAM test performed 6 tests. All were fine
 
Check Bios settings. BOOT drive settings for sata vs IDE - ETC, and there are quite a few. (check Mobo manual).

:toast:
 
disable firewire(ieee1394) and the Jmicron controller in bios. you can re-enable them after windows has installed.
 
Been through the manual, checked all the settings. The system boots, and gets about 1/2 way through the install. Usually get passed the product key request and into the actual program install, where it tells you how long until completed. At that piont it blue screens. It will then boot, and begin to load windows, and then go straight to blue screen
 
Is this SP1 or SP2?
 
try a cd maybe? silly but possible that the cd might be dodgy. though blue screens really mean that theres something wrong with the hardware...
 
i have here the same problem
all the hardware runs fine :S
 
memtest no errors after all 10 tests right morgoth?
 
well i tested it at a friend hous trying to remake my errors like the bluescreen of death on second part of instalation and no erro's came he tested from 1 tot 3 gigs of ram
now my mainboard is getting tested and its working 100%! there dowing now some burn in test to see if it gives anny error's so i am waiting from there mail how the burntest goes
even all other parts work fine :S if i find a solution i post it
 
ok, good luck
 
So after weeks of trying all kinds of stuff, and about 50+ attempts. Windows completes the install. But it's still very unstable. Loaded a few programs, all okay. Tried loading the NVidia drivers, and it did not like that. It kept crashing, and locking up. Then it worked. Then I put the Asus disk in, and loaded the chipset, sound, and raid drivers. After each it rebooted. Chipset install went fine, sound drivers went fine, after the raid install, the system crashed, and will not boot. It keeps hanging durring post, and tells me the CPU Ucode does not match, and I need to update the bios and try again. So I flashed the bios, and still no change. It still hangs at post, and tells me the CPU Ucode does not match???
 
Go to section 1.9 of mobo manual and "CLEAR RTC RAM" according to instructions then try reboot.

Should reread the CPU and ok it.

Is the HDD Sata or IDE, also - what version of Bios did you flash 0703 or 0801?
 
other people have found a bios upgrade solves this problem.Try manufacturer's site for latest bios.Good luck!!

EDIT:Sorry Nam you beat me to bios upgrade
 
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