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But I need a little advice. I got the basics of my new PC together last week and haven't been able to do anything with it due to some hardware thing going on. It's configured as follows:
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 mobo
e6600
2 gigs of gskill 1.8v 4200 ram
Gigabyte 7600gs vid card
Generic [NEC] DVD-RW drive
Seagate 320g SATA drive
Thermaltake 430W PS
The problem is it simply won't take an OS load (WinXP Home in this example, though it fails with an Ubuntu LiveCD too.) It starts to copy XP's files and I have to hit escape a few times because there's apparently some files not able to be found on the disc, though they don't seem very important. Then it does one of two things at various percentages of file copy (I think 64% is the record): it either locks up (and I've let it sit for hours, thinking it was just taking a while) or it gives a stop error. I checked to see if it was overheating, but it's running cool as a cucumber, so I went on from there, threw an Ubuntu disc in and ran Memtest86+. It went through to test 5, I believe, where it registered somewhere between four and five hundred thousand errors before crashing. So, my question is, is this likely a memory thing or a motherboard thing? I can go out pretty easily and get a 512 meg stick of ram to check if it's memory, since I'm planning to put a new PC together for a family member anyway, but I'd hate to do it then have the same problems come up, since ram will probably go down in cost by the time I actually assemble that new PC.
Any suggestions or insight into the matter would be greatly appreciated.
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 mobo
e6600
2 gigs of gskill 1.8v 4200 ram
Gigabyte 7600gs vid card
Generic [NEC] DVD-RW drive
Seagate 320g SATA drive
Thermaltake 430W PS
The problem is it simply won't take an OS load (WinXP Home in this example, though it fails with an Ubuntu LiveCD too.) It starts to copy XP's files and I have to hit escape a few times because there's apparently some files not able to be found on the disc, though they don't seem very important. Then it does one of two things at various percentages of file copy (I think 64% is the record): it either locks up (and I've let it sit for hours, thinking it was just taking a while) or it gives a stop error. I checked to see if it was overheating, but it's running cool as a cucumber, so I went on from there, threw an Ubuntu disc in and ran Memtest86+. It went through to test 5, I believe, where it registered somewhere between four and five hundred thousand errors before crashing. So, my question is, is this likely a memory thing or a motherboard thing? I can go out pretty easily and get a 512 meg stick of ram to check if it's memory, since I'm planning to put a new PC together for a family member anyway, but I'd hate to do it then have the same problems come up, since ram will probably go down in cost by the time I actually assemble that new PC.
Any suggestions or insight into the matter would be greatly appreciated.
