Going Nuts (System Freezing)

[tuffgong]

Specs:

Legend QDI Brilliant X1 Motherboard
Coppermine 800mhz CPU
220 megs of Ram
80G Seagate HD
DVD-ROM
Diamond 8MB Video Card

System freezes whenever I try to install an OS, as well as during anything else in DOS. I tried switching RAM and CPU, as well as PSU to no avail.

I even tried Windows 98, XP and Fedora and they all freeze at the same point. I can't figure out what's wrong.

 

[GeForceX]

Try running memtest on boot and letting it run.
Maybe your video card is defective.
Good luck.

-J.

 

[tuffgong]

i ran memtest...it froze with no errors...and i also switched vid cards so that eliminates the ram and video card.

 

[GeForceX]

Quite honestly I was suspicious of the motherboard since I haven't a clue what "Legend" is. It very well may be the motherboard itself. Simple guess to a problem, eh?

-J.

 

[tuffgong]

i think it might be...took everything but the cpu and vid card/ram out and memtest froze at the same spot which is just strange. again no errors just froze.