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SupraGreen · 10-07-2002, 06:44 PM

Ok, I have had a lot of bad luck in the last 4 months and my travels for advice have taken me thus far. To explain what's going on, ill have to tell you my story! So here we go!

About 4-5 months ago I purchased a new motherboard that was barely being released called the Abit AT7 Max. This mobo was to be the first of many parts to my new system. I then bought an Enermax dual fan 430 Watt power supply, 512mbs of 2700 DDR memory, Rounded IDE Cables, Amd Althon XP +2200, HC01 Heat pipe by coolermaster, and a CoolerMaster ATC-201 Case.

It all arrives, so I procede to dismantle my old Pentium 3 866. I take the 40 Gig hard drive, the Geforce 2 Ti, the CD-RW, and the floppy from it. I then plug everything and install all the hardware and finally finish the building project.

I turn it on......nothing. I was frusterated so I tried checking everything over agian and re checking. Again.....nothing. I tried my friends Athlon XP 1700 with little trouble, but for some reason looking at the temp's and monitoring that the motherboard has crashes the system. I send the CPU back thinking my XP 2200 was faulty. It comes back about 3 months later and I try again.....NOTHING!

So I go out to Fry's and buy a Albatron KX+400 KT333 Mobo and take it home to try it out. BINGO! It works!

Now here's how I ended up here....

I put the Windows XP Pro cd in the cd-rom and it loads up and asks me if I would like to format which partition (as I have a c: which is 30 gigs, and a D: which is 10 gigs for stuff to save if I format) so I choose C: and it then tells me that my Hard drive is corrupt and that it cannot install windows XP. I tried it 5 more times all of which I had to wait for the format....nothing!

I then pull out my old Windows 98 SE cd and BOOM, it loads up perfect! What in the?! So I go...Ok im gonna cheat the system and try to upgrade once i get 98 on there....it starts working and then boom "Your hard drive is corrupted". How could this be? Im using it right now, and 98 SE is working fine. But this hard drive will no longer let me use XP Pro.

Any ideas?

Also, look at the picture, is my ram running at the full speed of 2700 DDR?

10-07-2002, 06:44 PM	#1 (permalink)
SupraGreen Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 26	See today's most popular deals at » Strange Computer Oddity Ok, I have had a lot of bad luck in the last 4 months and my travels for advice have taken me thus far. To explain what's going on, ill have to tell you my story! So here we go! About 4-5 months ago I purchased a new motherboard that was barely being released called the Abit AT7 Max. This mobo was to be the first of many parts to my new system. I then bought an Enermax dual fan 430 Watt power supply, 512mbs of 2700 DDR memory, Rounded IDE Cables, Amd Althon XP +2200, HC01 Heat pipe by coolermaster, and a CoolerMaster ATC-201 Case. It all arrives, so I procede to dismantle my old Pentium 3 866. I take the 40 Gig hard drive, the Geforce 2 Ti, the CD-RW, and the floppy from it. I then plug everything and install all the hardware and finally finish the building project. I turn it on......nothing. I was frusterated so I tried checking everything over agian and re checking. Again.....nothing. I tried my friends Athlon XP 1700 with little trouble, but for some reason looking at the temp's and monitoring that the motherboard has crashes the system. I send the CPU back thinking my XP 2200 was faulty. It comes back about 3 months later and I try again.....NOTHING! So I go out to Fry's and buy a Albatron KX+400 KT333 Mobo and take it home to try it out. BINGO! It works! Now here's how I ended up here.... I put the Windows XP Pro cd in the cd-rom and it loads up and asks me if I would like to format which partition (as I have a c: which is 30 gigs, and a D: which is 10 gigs for stuff to save if I format) so I choose C: and it then tells me that my Hard drive is corrupt and that it cannot install windows XP. I tried it 5 more times all of which I had to wait for the format....nothing! I then pull out my old Windows 98 SE cd and BOOM, it loads up perfect! What in the?! So I go...Ok im gonna cheat the system and try to upgrade once i get 98 on there....it starts working and then boom "Your hard drive is corrupted". How could this be? Im using it right now, and 98 SE is working fine. But this hard drive will no longer let me use XP Pro. Any ideas? Also, look at the picture, is my ram running at the full speed of 2700 DDR? __________________ It's all fun an games till little Billy get his Cornea scratched.