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Trouble Installing OS on new PC
Name: Jason Date: January 2, 2003 at 00:56:56 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: p4
Comment:
I Just Put Together a new pc, a P4 1.8ghz, 256 DDR, ASUS P4PE Motherboard, ATI Radeon 7000 video card. And everything boots fine up until I try and install an OS, i get various errors ranging from: "divide overflow" to "general text error". I have had pretty much a different error each time so its hard to pin point the problem. I have tried installing three different Operating systems(win 98, win 98se, and winXP) which all seem to stop about 5 seconds into setup. I have also tried replacing the RAM and cd drives (still get the same errors). I am so confused and hope that someone out there can help. Thanks, Jason
Name: ryan Date: January 2, 2003 at 01:12:23 Pacific
Reply:
did you overclock your cpu??? or ram?? try install the operating system without other hardware installed, leave the video card and ram installed on the motherboard only.
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Response Number 2
Name: Jason Date: January 2, 2003 at 01:36:39 Pacific
Reply:
I didnt overclock the cpu, or the ram, the cpu is at 100mhz with a multiple of 18, and the ram is set to auto. So your saying pull everything exept the motherboard, cpu and,the video card?
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Response Number 3
Name: ben rogers Date: January 2, 2003 at 07:10:24 Pacific
Reply:
It sounds like you tried to upgrade the operating system. The best bet is to remove the active partition, create a new one and install XP from scratch, a clean install.
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