So i am building a machine for a friend, its a pretty nice one
athlon 64 4000+
2x1gb sticks of Geil ddr2 800 4-4-4-12
ghetto HDD (its just his old one till he gets a replacement. its a maxtor fireball 3 lololol)
GeForce 8800gs 320mb, by eVGA
nf590 chipset mobo by XFX
anyways... got everything put together, checked the bios settings and set up the ram settings and such, booted and Windows (an old install) insta-crashed with a bsod, and restarted to a blank black screen, not even the little white dash pinging in the top left.
So... i decided to try formatting the drive and starting over. Everything went well with re-formatting the HDD, but on booting into windows setup the system would freeze or just restart to that blank screen again.
I thought it might be the HDD, so i pulled my 300g sata drive out of my own comp, with almost identical hardware save a 7900gs and an nf4 ultra mobo, and booted up, got up to the windows XP welcome screen and got the usual "hardware radically changed, you have 3 days to reactivate windows". I selected no to wanting to do it right now, (with the keyboard, i thought was interesting, though i was running a USB mouse which wouldnt work. it got power but no control of the pointer. was thinking cause the chipset hasnt been installed? o_O but it worked w/o chipset drivers when i have built other systems.) Anyways, once the windows welcome splash closed i had, the first time, about 10 seconds of normal boot before a 1minute shutdown notice, stating that "c:\windows\system32\services.exe" (i think) has terminated unexpectedly. status code 1073741819. next few restarts just went straight to a bsod after the welcome screen, then restarted instantly before i get a chance to look at the bsod report.
i also got a message when the welcome screen is active about having replaced registry keys from backups, which scares me, because its the registry on my personal harddrive, not his empty one >.<
i've tried with no network, and i can get into safe mode but the USB still wont work. wireless card removed, changed ram slots, etc, but to no avail.
any suggestions?
thanks.
-John
athlon 64 4000+
2x1gb sticks of Geil ddr2 800 4-4-4-12
ghetto HDD (its just his old one till he gets a replacement. its a maxtor fireball 3 lololol)
GeForce 8800gs 320mb, by eVGA
nf590 chipset mobo by XFX
anyways... got everything put together, checked the bios settings and set up the ram settings and such, booted and Windows (an old install) insta-crashed with a bsod, and restarted to a blank black screen, not even the little white dash pinging in the top left.
So... i decided to try formatting the drive and starting over. Everything went well with re-formatting the HDD, but on booting into windows setup the system would freeze or just restart to that blank screen again.
I thought it might be the HDD, so i pulled my 300g sata drive out of my own comp, with almost identical hardware save a 7900gs and an nf4 ultra mobo, and booted up, got up to the windows XP welcome screen and got the usual "hardware radically changed, you have 3 days to reactivate windows". I selected no to wanting to do it right now, (with the keyboard, i thought was interesting, though i was running a USB mouse which wouldnt work. it got power but no control of the pointer. was thinking cause the chipset hasnt been installed? o_O but it worked w/o chipset drivers when i have built other systems.) Anyways, once the windows welcome splash closed i had, the first time, about 10 seconds of normal boot before a 1minute shutdown notice, stating that "c:\windows\system32\services.exe" (i think) has terminated unexpectedly. status code 1073741819. next few restarts just went straight to a bsod after the welcome screen, then restarted instantly before i get a chance to look at the bsod report.
i also got a message when the welcome screen is active about having replaced registry keys from backups, which scares me, because its the registry on my personal harddrive, not his empty one >.<
i've tried with no network, and i can get into safe mode but the USB still wont work. wireless card removed, changed ram slots, etc, but to no avail.
any suggestions?
thanks.
-John