I have always just used booted and format from the xp cd and never had any problems.
Just have it write over the previous installation of windows and format using ntfs if your hard drive can support it.
I reformatted my computer last night and reintstalled windows xp. The first time I tried to do an unattended setup and I think that it started to install onto my D: drive. I didn't want that so on the next reboot, I reran the process manually and installed it onto the C: where I want it. Now...
THis shows you that even people that "know" can make mistakes. The colors on the keyboard and mouse plugs were opposite of the ps/2 ports. So essentially they were plugged in backwards...crazy...
Thank you everyone for all of your help...
This is the first time that I have tried overclocking. I have an athlon 2100+ running on an expox 8rda+ with 512mb 3200 DDR. To overclock, all I did was change the FSB from 133 to 166 boosting my cpu to 2171 mhz or athlon 2700 equivalent. I have the memory running at 200 mhz. My system is...
I get a pregap error and then the error message that it could not make the cd. The only way that I can get it to work properly is to disconnect the other drive.
Have you tried right clicking on the desktop, choosing properties, and changing the wallpaper in there?
If that didn't work, did you try right clicking on a picture and choosing...set as wallpaper?
I recently built a new system that is running fairly well. The only problem that I have is that I cannot get my cd burner to burn cd's if I have my dvd drive attached. I have tried switching both as master and slave and it doesn' make a difference. The only time that I can get it to burn cd's...
Ihave tried a different stick of memory and clearing the cmos. It goes through the memory test and locates the hard drive the keyboard flashes and it tells me to go itno to cmos to reset my settings but the keyboard will not work...I have tried 3 different keyboards...
The motherboard FSB is...
I updated all the drivers and that seemed to help some of my problem but my keyboard and mouse continue locking up during the post. I can reboot again and it seemed to unlock them temporarily. I thought maybe a bios update would work but when I rebooted the keyboard locked up and I can't get...
I'm trying to remember what the problem was when Ihad a similar situation.
If the second hard drive is an older one, sometimes there is a different jumper setting for a single hard drive as opposed to a master.
Is the hard drive connected to the end of the ide cable as opposed to the...
I seem to recall several posts by people saying that the Ecs boards were not that stable but could be wrong.
I had a problem with mine locking up following the ram check after I swapped hard drives.
Make sure that you have set the secondary hard drive that you made the master into master...
More than a month ago I bought a case, albatron MB, amd 2600+ and ordered some 3200 ocz ram from Newegg. I had trouble getting it to install windows xp and then had trouble getting it to run stable at a meager FSB of 100 for both the cpu and ram. It would keep rebooting and I could never get...
I am running the newest BIOS and my temperatures got up to around 43C for the CPU and 39C for the System.
I have not run Memtest. I have RMA'ed the RAM and will see if new ram will help solve the problem.
I have replaced the power supply with an antec 400 Watt and am still getting the same problems as before....
BSD's, file corruption errors while running 3dmark....
I have also noticed that the RAM does not get hot to the touch....Shouldn't it be hot?
ok...I went and it finally allowed me to install windows. ONly took about 4 or 5 tries. I switched all ide cables, turned off usb 2.0, 1394, and on board sound in bios, replaced with same power supply that I used in old computer that had the same hard drives and optical drives but duron 900...
If I can ever get the thing to install windows I will check the psu...what is psu, anyway....NOt a newbie but still some things I don't know...Would a memory problem cause me to be unable to install files from CD..in particular the windows installation...I can usually get to about 80% of initial...
I skimped on the case and it came with a non brand 300w power supply....
I switched the ide cables also....I still had problems installing windows from the opticals and installing some software from the harddrives.
When I reset the cmos, it set both the cpu speed to 100 mhz FSB and the memory...
I recently purchased an epox 8rda+ v1.1,an athlon xp 2100+, and 512 mb ocz 3200 DDR. I have a problem getting the thing to run stable. I have tried mutliple FSB's and modifiers for both the CPU and the RAM. The only time I got it to run kind of stable was by totally underclocking it witha...
This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register.
By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.