first built machine, first xp install on that machine:
Foxconn P45A-S LGA 775
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
XCLIO GOODPOWER 500W PSU
SAPPHIRE 100225L Radeon HD 3870
CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800
1.0TB Samsung Spinpoint EcoGreen 32MB Cache SATA II Hard Drive
LITE-ON Black 20X DVD+R 8X
The brand new xp install fails at 34 minutes during what looks to be the device install. The system gives no error message it simply reboots right back into the setup and proceeds to fail again. My first thought was ram problems so I did a ram check and there were no errors. Now I believe that the problem might be drivers or power to the video card. If its not that it might be a SATA problem...but I have read so little about that I dont really know what that entails.
If it is a driver problem how do I install drivers on a system without ever having it actually boot up, and what order do i to this in because the problem could be in the motherboard drivers or in the video card drivers. I have read a little about flashing a bios for this motherboard, supposedly it has had problems with the bios before.
This is my first machine and I am very new to all this, any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
Foxconn P45A-S LGA 775
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
XCLIO GOODPOWER 500W PSU
SAPPHIRE 100225L Radeon HD 3870
CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800
1.0TB Samsung Spinpoint EcoGreen 32MB Cache SATA II Hard Drive
LITE-ON Black 20X DVD+R 8X
The brand new xp install fails at 34 minutes during what looks to be the device install. The system gives no error message it simply reboots right back into the setup and proceeds to fail again. My first thought was ram problems so I did a ram check and there were no errors. Now I believe that the problem might be drivers or power to the video card. If its not that it might be a SATA problem...but I have read so little about that I dont really know what that entails.
If it is a driver problem how do I install drivers on a system without ever having it actually boot up, and what order do i to this in because the problem could be in the motherboard drivers or in the video card drivers. I have read a little about flashing a bios for this motherboard, supposedly it has had problems with the bios before.
This is my first machine and I am very new to all this, any help at all would be greatly appreciated.