Q: I am not a novice by far, and the worst is I lost all of what it could be
So here are the pictures:
http: / / mikeg.cjb.net/garbage1.jpg
http: / / mikeg. cjb.net/garbage2.jpg
http: / / mikeg.cjb.net/garbage3.jpg
I get this waste crap just trying to run WinXP install (its fine when loading the file, but directly after “start installation” this happens)
Now the history of what I tried: 977 503 977 503 New CPU (Athlon XP 2500 +, 2100 + XP) 977 503 PSE-Various (Antec 380W TruPower u0026amp; Generic 300W) 977 503 new motherboard (ASRock K7VM4 u0026amp, ASUS A7N8X New Deluxe) 977 503-Different AGP card (Nvidia 5900 Ultra u0026amp, ATI 8500le) 977 503-Memtest on the RAM, different slots Various 977 503 hard drives (Seagate Samsung u0026amp;) 977 503, several CDs to install (XP MCE u0026amp; XP SP2 )
The only way I got it was to work with an old assss PCI video card, everything worked fine. On the old motherboard, I thought it was an AGP slot is faulty, but I refuse to believe that the AGP card is bad on two motherboards, one is brand new ?!?!?! I forget to configure something? Im completely lost, its Christmas Eve, and Im about lose my mind!
Re:tried that, same thing :-/
Re:yup, monitor cant support the agp cards, have been there before…..get a different and newer monitor
Re:I would also bet it is the monitor.
The heatsink looks right to me, but awful hard to tell in the picture.
Ron
Re:In photo #1, looking at the left edge of the photo… your heatsink is not clipped down? :Q heatsink instructions (http://www.omnicast.net/~tmcfadden/guides/Heatsink/index.html) Note that the pressure point of the clip needs to be over the CPU's core, not the other way, too.
Re:Ya, try another monitor. If that fails,
Try it with just the cpu, video card, one stick of ram, cdrom and a hdd.
If it fails, swap video card and try again.
If it fails, swap a stick of ram and try it again.
Re:I'm probably way off, but have you tried a different monitor? From your pics it looks to be an older monitor, and possibly can't handle the output from the AGP cards.
Other than that, what adapter cards are in your rig besides the vid cards? I'm wondering if moving the cards to different PCI slots would make a difference.
Can't think of any BIOS settings to try, unless you are OC'ing. You could try BIOS setup default settings for the install, then start switching them one by one after install to get max performance.
Good luck.
guy
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