UrbanFuturistic
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A friend hit me up because he was getting rid of his media-server, and asked if I wanted it. So I picked it up, and now I can't get it to boot.
The setup:
intel C2Q Q9550
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R
2 kits of Mushkin DDR2 XP2-8500 2x2GB(8GB total)
120GB SSD
500GB HDD
GTX 950/HD4870(Not both at the same time, but wondered if the 950 had something to do with it, had been know to work previously with the HD4870)
I can get into the bios, and sata drives are recognized, but it will not boot into Windows. Stops at "Verifying DMI Pool Data......" Won't go any further. Also, I cannot get it boot from a USB drive. I am almost sure that there is something I am missing because I haven't had to deal with hardware this old in a long time. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I don't have any EIDE drives to try.
Edit:
It is not the processor, nor the socket. I installed the processor into a Dell C2D machine I have, and it booted up with no problems. My reasoning was that I wanted to make sure I didn't botch the install and bend pins. I am going to play around with the ram next.
Edit 2:
I removed the SSD I was trying to boot with and now everything works. What gives?
The setup:
intel C2Q Q9550
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R
2 kits of Mushkin DDR2 XP2-8500 2x2GB(8GB total)
120GB SSD
500GB HDD
GTX 950/HD4870(Not both at the same time, but wondered if the 950 had something to do with it, had been know to work previously with the HD4870)
I can get into the bios, and sata drives are recognized, but it will not boot into Windows. Stops at "Verifying DMI Pool Data......" Won't go any further. Also, I cannot get it boot from a USB drive. I am almost sure that there is something I am missing because I haven't had to deal with hardware this old in a long time. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I don't have any EIDE drives to try.
Edit:
It is not the processor, nor the socket. I installed the processor into a Dell C2D machine I have, and it booted up with no problems. My reasoning was that I wanted to make sure I didn't botch the install and bend pins. I am going to play around with the ram next.
Edit 2:
I removed the SSD I was trying to boot with and now everything works. What gives?
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