Everything Erroring uncontrollably

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Dutt1113

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I just hooked up my
e6600
evga 680i mobo
2gb supertalent ddr2-800
8800gtx
2 sata II hdds

and everthing is erroring left and right and freezing and locking up as well. I don't understand it. I have all the latest drivers on a clean install of windows. I have an antec neopower 480 watt. My brother has the same stuff above too and he as an antec truepower 2.0 550 and he is haveing the same problems. He is getting the same but with blue screens from video device driver and freezing. What do you think could be the problem? Its getting really frustrating. Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks
 
Im going to have to say that the PSUs arent strong enough.
 
anything else it could be? I didn't have a working floppy for the sata drivers so I used the ones from my old motherboard. i don't know if that made a difference. When my comp started really messing up it would error when i try to run a program and even go to my computer and try to browse the files on my harddrive. i really need help.

Thanks
 
for your sata drivers on install, since its a new motherboard you probably don't need sata drivers (this is why it didn't come with any).

In the BIOS settings their will be something on the lines of SATA mode and if you set that too IDE (which i believe is what it is set to by default) your sata controller on the motherboard makes XP detect it as an IDE drive until its into windows. Might want to look into that.
 
you might want to check out

http://extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine

Just to see if your power supply can take it. I did a rough estimate of your computer (with the specs given) and got 422w at 100% utilization. That is an idea of something to look into.

Also, is your powersupply have a 20pin ATX connector going into a 24pin ATX connection on the motherboard? I haven't had trouble with this personally, but i've heard that certain motherboards needed the adapter that changes 20 to 24pin in order to work properally.
 
My first guess is RAM.

Do you have that set at the correct speeds, timings, & vdimm?

Auto or SPD = not good idea.
 
i reformated and was able to find a working floppy, (not used in my system) and get the drivers integrated in an nlite cd. I reformated and did a fresh install of windows. I set the memory to auto/2t. I think maybe my ddr2 800 supertalent memory timings of 4-4-3-8 wants 2t timing on my mobo for some reason because it seems to be working fine so far. Still getting programs and games installed and stuff though so i guess i'll find out when i start actually doing stuff.
 
Even though you got the system working fine right now I would still recommend a more powerful PSU.

-Graham
 
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