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ronin21

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I am totally worn out with this issue so I am seeking to pull from the infinte collective wisdom of the [H] so here goes.

I have a machine that I am trying to load xp on my machine and it keeps hanging up and corrupting hard drives. I just bought a new WD 160gig and it corrupted that also. my machine is an asus a7n8x deluxe 2.0 with 400fsb, I have an Antec truepower 430ps, radeon 9500pro and two sticks of corsair 256mb 3200. I think it may be a heat issue but I am not sure but If I let the machine sit for a while it will get a little ways into the install and just hang up then I have to reboot. At that point it will take forever to find the IDE devices then when it does the install will be corrupt. Any insight you guys can give me will be a great help because I don't know which way to turn at this point.
 
What CPU are you running, and what are the temps in your bios? I assume you checked your heatsink for dust build up.
 
2500+ running at stock speed, I checked the temps at boot but not after it ran but that board should have a shut down if the proc gets to hot. I don't know if it will do the same thing if the northbridge is heating up. Although I had the board for a year and a half and not had this problem until now. the hard drive is only a week old so I don't think dust is an issue.
 
Not sure what the problem is but overheating can cause some very strange problems even before the board would shut it down. Check your temps under load, and check your cpu heat sink (and the rest of the case insides for that matter) for dust buildup.

Disconnect all drives and USB devices, printers, etc, with the exception of the boot drive, mouse, keyboard, and the CD drive your using to boot. Sometimes windows gets confused if you have too many devices, card reader, and drives connected.
 
Do a google search for MemTest. it will run on a floppy, to check your memory sticks.
 
SkullE said:
Do a google search for MemTest. it will run on a floppy, to check your memory sticks.
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thats not a bad idea. does it boot from it or will I have to use a boot disk
 
Didn't that board have those bad jpcon caps that cause the cpu to error when installing windows?
 
Crazy tech said:
Didn't that board have those bad jpcon caps that cause the cpu to error when installing windows?
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I hope not. how can I tell if that is the case or not?
 
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