Help with reinstalling XP Home

2008-10-26 14:32:23

#1

TSI: Cholera in the time of love; +247|6247|Toronto

Okay, so my backup comp's hard drive broke last week. It's totally wrecked. Today I go and buy a new one: WD 160GB EIDE. I plug it in, rearrange the single jumper in the back so that it should work as primary slave...and start up the comp, with the XP Home installation disc in the drive.
It's all good, Windows setup pops up, it starts copying files and so on...suddenly, I get a blue screen, saying that I've got a BAD_POOL_HEADER. Wtf?

The setup is an old one: Asus A7V333 mobo, 1.3 gb of ram, a AMD Athlon 1700 or something like that...I was 12 when I built the thing, I can't find the docs. It's also got an EVGA GeForce 6200LE.

I'm at my wits' end, been trying to fix it for 16 hours now. Halp!

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2008-10-26 14:36:06

#2

Varegg: Support fanatic :-); +2,206|7076|Nårvei

Format ?

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2008-10-26 14:39:48

#3

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Varegg wrote:
Format ?

And clear CMOS?

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2008-10-26 14:40:52

#4

TSI: Cholera in the time of love; +247|6247|Toronto

Wallpaper wrote:
Varegg wrote:
Format ?
And clear CMOS?

Sorry, I'm no comp expert. How do I do this?

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2008-10-26 14:42:17

#5

baggs: Member; +732|6471

Refer to your motherboard manual or just remove the little battery loacted on the motherboard for a few seconds.

be sure to observe the correct procedure for handling computer components in the latter tho.

2008-10-26 14:50:56

#6

TSI: Cholera in the time of love; +247|6247|Toronto

baggs wrote:
Refer to your motherboard manual or just remove the little battery loacted on the motherboard for a few seconds.

be sure to observe the correct procedure for handling computer components in the latter tho.

Done, still to no avail

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2008-10-26 15:01:45

#7

TSI: Cholera in the time of love; +247|6247|Toronto

Okay, so I get a different bluescreen now: it says:

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA.

what's that?

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2008-10-26 15:37:58

#8

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6834|NYC / Hamburg

That sounds like your PC is unstable. Try memtesting. You can't prime, so try at a lower speed

Dirty? clean it out

Last edited by max (2008-10-26 15:40:59)

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2008-10-26 15:40:56

#9

TSI: Cholera in the time of love; +247|6247|Toronto

max wrote:
That sounds like your PC is unstable. Try memtesting. You can't prime, so try at a lower speed

I don't know. I've left it running for about an hour, no problems.
and how do I do that impressive-sounding thing?

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2008-10-26 15:43:41

#10

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6834|NYC / Hamburg

download memtest from here and burn to a CD. To run at a lower speed, drop your FSB a bit

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2008-10-26 15:44:49

#11

TSI: Cholera in the time of love; +247|6247|Toronto

Okay, so now it only goes to the PCI device listing and just stays there. ????

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2008-10-26 15:46:46

#12

TSI: Cholera in the time of love; +247|6247|Toronto

max wrote:
download memtest from here and burn to a CD. To run at a lower speed, drop your FSB a bit

Max, I think there's a miscommunication. My comp currently has no OS on it. It crashes while I try installing XP.

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2008-10-26 15:47:07

#13

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6834|NYC / Hamburg

can you run a live linux CD all right? Just download your fave distro or knoppix. At least we'll know if this is a hardware issue

TSI wrote:
max wrote:
download memtest from here and burn to a CD. To run at a lower speed, drop your FSB a bit
Max, I think there's a miscommunication. My comp currently has no OS on it. It crashes while I try installing XP.

you're posting from an apparentely working PC. Download memtest from there, burn to a CD, stick CD into broken PC, boot from it, test

Last edited by max (2008-10-26 15:48:12)

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2008-10-26 15:50:52

#14

TSI: Cholera in the time of love; +247|6247|Toronto

max wrote:
can you run a live linux CD all right? Just download your fave distro or knoppix. At least we'll know if this is a hardware issue

TSI wrote:
max wrote:
download memtest from here and burn to a CD. To run at a lower speed, drop your FSB a bit
Max, I think there's a miscommunication. My comp currently has no OS on it. It crashes while I try installing XP.
you're posting from an apparentely working PC. Download memtest from there, burn to a CD, stick CD into broken PC, boot from it, test

Downloading Ubuntu. will update when it's done.

@max: I said that my BACKUP pc crashed. Not this one.

Last edited by TSI (2008-10-26 15:51:44)

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2008-10-26 15:53:24

#15

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6834|NYC / Hamburg

I'm not asking you to do anything from within the broken PC's OS. You change the FSB from BIOS. You download & burn memtest on a working PC

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2008-10-26 15:58:52

#16

TSI: Cholera in the time of love; +247|6247|Toronto

my FSB's at 100, the multiplier is at 11. Usually I have it at 1.4 gHz.

Last edited by TSI (2008-10-26 16:00:23)

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2008-10-26 16:01:04

#17

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6834|NYC / Hamburg

if you're still unable to install @ 800MHz, it would suggest that your CPU is fine. Hows you're HDD doing?

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2008-10-26 16:02:33

#18

TSI: Cholera in the time of love; +247|6247|Toronto

max wrote:
if you're still unable to install @ 800MHz, it would suggest that your CPU is fine. Hows you're HDD doing?

My bad, it was 1100 mHz, not 800. i miscalculated. My HDD is spinning at 7200, sounds happy.

Last edited by TSI (2008-10-26 16:03:01)

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2008-10-26 16:15:34

#19

TSI: Cholera in the time of love; +247|6247|Toronto

Okay. Ubuntu is burning now. I've never used Linux before, do I just plop the cd in and wait?

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2008-10-26 16:21:23

#20

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6834|NYC / Hamburg

plop in the CD, choose try without installing and play around in the OS a little. We just want to see if your PC runs fine

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2008-10-26 16:39:21

#21

TSI: Cholera in the time of love; +247|6247|Toronto

Okay, so the BIOS is set as Cd drive #1, and then i started the comp; I got to the PCI device listing, and then the comp just stayed there.

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2008-10-26 16:45:49

#22

TSI: Cholera in the time of love; +247|6247|Toronto

Should I set the HDD as primary or secondary master?

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2008-10-26 16:46:32

#23

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|7032|Cambridge (UK)

I'm gonna stick my neck out here, but I reckons it's your power supply.

TSI wrote:
Should I set the HDD as primary or secondary master?

It doesn't matter - it's not even getting that far - something hardware has died or is dying.

Last edited by Scorpion0x17 (2008-10-26 16:47:30)

2008-10-26 16:49:11

#24

TSI: Cholera in the time of love; +247|6247|Toronto

Scorpion0x17 wrote:
I'm gonna stick my neck out here, but I reckons it's your power supply.

TSI wrote:
Should I set the HDD as primary or secondary master?
It doesn't matter - it's not even getting that far - something hardware has died or is dying.

Okay, so how do I check that it's the PSU? I suppose I have to switch it with that of another comp?

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2008-10-26 16:51:28

#25

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|7032|Cambridge (UK)

TSI wrote:
Scorpion0x17 wrote:
I'm gonna stick my neck out here, but I reckons it's your power supply.

TSI wrote:
Should I set the HDD as primary or secondary master?
It doesn't matter - it's not even getting that far - something hardware has died or is dying.
Okay, so how do I check that it's the PSU? I suppose I have to switch it with that of another comp?

Yuppers. And you need to make sure the one you're swapping in is of high enough rating to power your spec of hardware, and ideally is known to work with said spec of hardware.

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