Decided my system needed an upgrade so i bought an Asus A7v8x-x mobo, 256mb DDR ram and a 450W PSU. Using all other bits from my existing set up. Assembled everthing and it posted no problem and recognised ll the bits. I decided that a fresh start with a nice clean drive would be the job so decided to Fdisk and reformat. Thats where the problems started, i have Fdisked and formatted drives many times but this time whenever i tried to load the OS it kept coming up that the free space was being incorrectly reported and asking if i wanted scandisk to fix the fault. I would ask it to fix the fault and the try to load the OS then it would tell me it could not decompress the .cab file and the D: which is the boot disk RAMDRIVE was write protected. I checked all cables and that everthing was seated correctly. everything looked fine and the PC continued to post ok. After about a dozen attempts to set up the drive i took out everything and put my old mobo and CPU back in and bingo everthing worked fine OS loaded a treat.
The CPU i was trying to put into the new setup was a 2400+ Sempron, the mobo came with the 1013 revision BIOS so it was compatible with the CPU.
Now the CPU was previously in a PC in which the mobo and PSU blew. I rebuilt this one for a friend but replaced mobo, CPU and PSU. Everything else was fine (drives, ram etc) and went in the rebuild and i assumed that the CPU was ok and only the mobo and PSU affected.
What i would like to know is are the problems i had indicating a fault in the CPU or a fault in one of the new components. If i have to buy new CPU fine but any other bits will be under warranty and i dont want to spend money replacing something that is not faulty. i apologise if this is a bit rambling any help would be much appreciated
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The CPU i was trying to put into the new setup was a 2400+ Sempron, the mobo came with the 1013 revision BIOS so it was compatible with the CPU.
Now the CPU was previously in a PC in which the mobo and PSU blew. I rebuilt this one for a friend but replaced mobo, CPU and PSU. Everything else was fine (drives, ram etc) and went in the rebuild and i assumed that the CPU was ok and only the mobo and PSU affected.
What i would like to know is are the problems i had indicating a fault in the CPU or a fault in one of the new components. If i have to buy new CPU fine but any other bits will be under warranty and i dont want to spend money replacing something that is not faulty. i apologise if this is a bit rambling any help would be much appreciated
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