New system, keep getting blue screens

[zylander]

I just finished putting together my new comp;

Athlon 64 3000+ Venice CPU
DFI Lanparty UT Ultra-D mobo
Chaintech GeForce 6600GT vid card
Antec Neo Power 480w PSU
currently only 512mb DDR400 ram

I was able to succesfully install windows, but now when ever I start the computer, It will freez for a couple of seconds at the windows loading screen, then I will get a blue warning screen flash up for about half a second, then the computer restarts and trys again, but the same thing will happen. Occasionally I will be promted if I want to go to safe mode or try normally again. I can get into safe mode just fine.

The PSU, CPU, mobo, and vid card are brand new. The ram, cd drives and hard drives are about a year old, but they were working perfectly fine when I took them out of my old comp. Any ideas as to what could be wrong?

 

[zylander]

Well this time the blue screen stayed on and I could read what it says;

MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION

then something about how if this is my first time seeing this, remove recently installed hardware.

then it syas the technical info:

Stop: 0x0000009c (0x00000004, 0x00000000, 0xb2000000, 0x00070f0f)

BEGINNING_DUMP_OF_PHYSICAL_MEMORY

anyone have any idea what this means? a bad install of windows? all this hardware is either brand new or was working just fine in my old comp.

 

[zylander]

UPDATE:

I tried to re-install a new copy of windows, and during the installation I got the blue screen again which means this has to be a hardware problem. The computer posts fine and I can get into the BIOS. Its just once windows trys to start the problem happens. I will swap out my ram and begin testing other drives and what not.

 

[zylander]

I believe I have traced the problem to my slave hard drive. I unplugged it and have yet to see the blue screen. Once i plugged it back in, I got the blue screen again. I do find it kind of odd that this can be caused by a slave drive. Can anyone confirm that this is possible?

 

[MYLOADEDMEMORY11]

Maybe try a different hard drive cable or different power connector from the power supply.

It?s possible your hard drive is causing it not likely it?s also possible it?s using just a lil to much power (the hair that broke the camels back).


Your power supply seems adequate maybe try removing an unnecessary component(s) to see if they are drawing to much power.

Try to list all your hardware.

 

[zylander]

Athlon 64 3000+ Venice CPU
DFI Lanparty UT Ultra-D mobo
Chaintech GeForce 6600GT vid card
Antec Neo Power 480w PSU
currently only 512mb DDR400 ram
lite on CD-RW
Samsung DVD-RW floppy
santa cruz sound card
WD 80gb hd
WD 60gb hd

I have been running it with just CPU, one stick of 512 ram, vid card, the lite on cd-rw, and the 80gb HD. when i pluged the 60gb in, the blue screen comes on. when i run the comp without the 60gb plugged in, the computer boots up prefectly every time.

 

[MYLOADEDMEMORY11]

try loading it with all the hardware except the 60 gb hard drive

and maybe try the 60gb in some other means- external or on another comptuer to see if it gives you any problems

 

[stockriderman]

typical DFI problem... I had the same thing during my install of 4200 x2. I actually was able to reinstall windows the second time with no problem,before getting one of those. I don't know why it was happening. It was not getting blue screens that much after I hooked up a floppy drive. I tried switching connectors,updated bios,played with bios settings and so far I did not get that blue screen for a few days. I remember,every time I would try to access my Benq 1620 drive,I'd get the blue screen. It was pissing me off! I put it on a different channel,updated firmware and it never did that again.
Now,the only time I get the blue screen is when I tried to overclock.

 

[zylander]

Well I believe I have fixed the problem for good. The blue screen came back again last night when I plugged in my slave DVD-RW drive. My theory is that this was all happening because I did not have the boards IDE drivers installed, and every time I tried to boot up the system with a slave drive plugged in, it didnt know what it was and crashed. I am still not 100% certain, but I installed all my drivers and am having no problems with any of my drives.