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cdbrown:
Make sure you go into the bios of the motherboard and check all the settings.  Disable the virus check as this can cause problems.  Also make sure that the FSB, multiplier, vcore, memory speed and timings are all correct.  As this is a new system chances are some of these settings are to the default of the motherboard which isn't in accordance with the cpu and memory you have installed.  The default speed on my mobo is FSB100 multiplier 10, but my chip is 133x11.5 and memory is 166MHz.

After that get memtest from www.memtest86.com.  I normally boot it from a floppy but you can use cd (the download contains all the install files necessary to make the disks).  Let it run for a while to see if you come up with any memory errors.

Then get back to us on how it went.

Cheers
-cdbrown

DrewKaree:
just a question - is the XP disc a copied disc or an honest-to-goodness hologrammed Microsoft disc?

I had the same issue with a copied disc, but got everything to work just fine with another disc.

shmokes:
Drew, this is Microsoft we're talking about.  I think you mean, "honest-to-badness" disc.

I've had this problem before too (it was with a copied disc -- though that same disc has worked in lots of other computers just fine).  It's damn near impossible to diagnose.  You'll be pulling your hair out.  My recommendation is to throw out everything you've got and start from scratch.  Otherwise prepare to have a year or two shaved off your life due to the stress and frustration you're in for...

jsomethin:

--- Quote from: DrewKaree on October 19, 2004, 02:06:52 am ---just a question - is the XP disc a copied disc or an honest-to-goodness hologrammed Microsoft disc?

I had the same issue with a copied disc, but got everything to work just fine with another disc.

--- End quote ---

Well....it was a non-hologrammed XP disc.

But....when I got an honest-to-goodness NT floppy boot disk, it still wouldn't recognize any CD drive (even though the BIOS did)

jsomethin:
So.,..turns out the problem was with the BIOS. Upgraded that (it was off by one version), and everything worked. Which was odd, because the BIOS never had a problem recognizing the drive..it was only when the OS was loading when the problem occurred.

Anyway, thanks a lot for all the replies!

-j

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