On 30 Dec 2005 05:37:53 GMT, sclg <DoNotEmail.DeleteThis@www.hardwareforumz.com>
wrote:
>"sclg" wrote:
> > Just built a system with one of these for a neighbour for Xmas
> > (hence the hurry!).
> > Installed XP Home and all seemed well. Booted into Windows
> > fine.
> > Next I stuck in the Asus CD and ran the 'NVidia Chipset Driver
> > Prgram'. Installed & rebooted.
> > Won't start any more. Gets to the first XP screen - the black
> > one with the Windows logo and the moving bar at the bottom.
> > After a while the bar stops moving and that's it!
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > 2 x 512 memories in DIMM-A1 & DIMM-B1 (which seems to be
> > what it says??)
> > Athlon 3800+
> > Single SATA 250Gb drive
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > S
>
>Hmmm. Changing the memories round to use A1 & A2 seems to have fixed
>it. Not sure why - the book seems to say otherwise!
Your DIMMs were installed correctly the first time. You're now in
single-channel mode, and it makes me wonder if one of the DIMMs is
flaky or if slot B1 might be duff. A good troubleshooting step would
be to install only one DIMM and put it in B1. If that works, try
running with only the other DIMM, also in B1. Try running Memtest86
from its floppy, and install Prime95, and run it's torture test. (I
recently had some Corsair RAM that performed well on Memtest86, but
gave errors almost immediately after starting Prime95, the point being
that when you suspect memory problems, it's good to run a stress
program both in Windows and before Windows boots. Replacing that RAM
cured all the BSODs I was having in Windows.)
BTW, you seldom find the latest chipset driver on the Asus CD. The
best practice is to download that driver from the nVidia site..
Ron
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