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CB1
07-07-2005, 10:49 AM
rebuilding an old machine (p4 2.4 1gb RAM), trying to load windows XP PRO (back up copy) and it simply refuses to go past 18% sometime quits at 13% other times at 18%.

thought it was the HD so bought a brand new 200gb one (old one was 200gb) and same result.

does anyone know of any ideas of why this is happening mobo/RAM are fine i've recopied the disk and still nothing.

My HDD i've taken out of this machine (was working 100%) put into another pc and used the same disk and worked fine.

any ideas, my old man is getting stressed!!!

Cheers

CB1
Van Nugent
07-07-2005, 11:29 AM
Download this MS Memory Tool (http://oca.microsoft.com/en/mtinst.exe) then make a bootable test floppy with it and run the test to see if your RAM is the problem. Remember to run the advanced test. The basic test will be run by default but it doesn't tell much.
CB1
07-08-2005, 07:17 AM
Cheers Van Nugent, apparantly the 2 sticks of ram aren't compatible!

my dad took his pc to a firm he works with and they've said about the fact he has no heatsink gel on the chip.

could this be another reason or are they just BS-ing?

TIA
polarstar
07-08-2005, 07:30 AM
no heatsink gel or (thermal paste) between the chip and heatsink can cause it to overheat
PhilEnfield
07-08-2005, 09:32 AM
Cheers Van Nugent, apparantly the 2 sticks of ram aren't compatible!

my dad took his pc to a firm he works with and they've said about the fact he has no heatsink gel on the chip.

could this be another reason or are they just BS-ing?

TIA

Well ...... the only way they would know that, would be if they removed the heatsink ... in which case the thermal paste would need renewing anyway.
If they removed it and didn't renew it, they are "cowboys" ;) ... most likely they are guessing.

No paste would almost definitely cause overheating.
Van Nugent
07-08-2005, 10:11 AM
Yep, whenever you mount the heatsink, you need to apply a thin layer of thermal paste b/w it and the core of the CPU.

Install 1 stick of RAM at a time then run the MS Mem test on each of them to see which 1 is compatible with the mobo.
gsand
07-09-2005, 07:38 AM
other thing cud be the drive dosnt like the disk...i have had this problem in the past when the disk works in 10s of other drives...