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Karant

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Okay, just recently I had purchased a used ASUS P5LD2-Deluxe and Pentium D 805 from a fellow forum member. Along with this I had purchased a brand-new stick of 1024MB Kingston PC2-5400 667MHz DDR2 from iTech Systems.

Each time I try booting up trying to install Windows XP, the ASUS P5LD2-Deluxe screen comes up, which is normal.
- However each time I turn it on a 'Scanning IDE Devices' screen comes up and delays the boot process a few minutes, but it correctly detects the connected devices.
- After that, I boot off the Windows XP CD, after the Windows Installer detects my hardware I got the following BSOD!
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I took what the BSOD had to say and tried using a few seperate formatted HDD's as master, however the same error occurred.

UPDATE: I had checked my BIOS and realized this is what it says is detected...
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And after reading through the manual I realised the beep I get after turning on my system means 'No Master-Drive Deteced.'
I'm convinced now that that is the problem, but I have both the IDE Hard-drive and IDE CD-R/W connected appropriately... what am I doing wrong?
 
I downloaded the MemTest86 ISO and burnt it to a CD using MagicISO, however my computer won't read it as a boot CD. :S What could explain why it always does the IDE device check though? Thanks.
 
are your eide drives' jumpers set correctly? run the memtest off of a floppy disk instead.
 
You should be able to run memtest from a floppy.....it's probably better that way since you either have a memory problem or an IDE problem.

I downloaded the MemTest86 ISO and burnt it to a CD using MagicISO, however my computer won't read it as a boot CD. :S What could explain why it always does the IDE device check though? Thanks
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Since you asked, do you have a spare hard drive to try your setup? Are your drives being detected properly in the bios (size and name of the hard drive)? I've had a similar problem on some of my folding systems where bad hard drives would give me similar problems. I'd get most of the way through a Linux install, and then get a BSOD. Very frustrating situation.....but once you nail down the bad guy life is good! On average, hard drives are more likely to fail than memory. Let us know what you find, but do try another hard drive since that should tell you something real quick ;)

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I don't have a floppy drive. :( I'm highly convinced this is a problem with the motherboard... I'd try resetting the CMOS if I could get the fucking battery out.
 
Karant said:
I don't have a floppy drive. :( I'm highly convinced this is a problem with the motherboard... I'd try resetting the CMOS if I could get the fucking battery out.
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It actually sounds like a memory or eide controller problem to me. Do you have a floppy drive in any spare computer? If so, use that. If not, find someone who has a spare one and borrow it. Or, load the files to a thumb drive and boot from there.

Did you try different eide cables? Are your hdd jumpers set correctly?

Resetting the CMOS should be done by shorting two pins with a jumper. Consult your manual for which two pins (should be labeled CLRCMOS or something like that).
 
Karant said:
I don't have a floppy drive. :( I'm highly convinced this is a problem with the motherboard... I'd try resetting the CMOS if I could get the fucking battery out.
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You need to eliminate each possibility one at a time. If you're drawing conclusions without facts, you're just guessing. :eek: Take a breather and go back to it later on when you can properly test your components.
 
To the OP, You never did answer the question people have been asking:

Are the drives jumpered correctly?

My question to add to that;

How are the drives jumpered and positioned on the cable?
Do the drives show up on one of the other IDE channels instead of the primary? Chances are not all the channels are bad.
 
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