I have just installed a new motherboard and cpu, (bundle). Its a Foxconn socket 939 with a 3.7GHz Athalon 64 CPU. Firstly it has got 4 DIMM slots so i added the 2 DDR400 512 MB i had in the old one, but it only seems to flash up properly when using one??? Now comes the really wierd thing. When i tryed to start it with my old hard drives with XP installed it came up as OS not installed, so i have tryed to re-install XP. It goes through the POST and then comes up with BOOT FROM CD. and the XP disc starts the install. It goes throught the user agreement (F8) and the the patition bits, with the format the hard drive, then it starts to install XP. After it has done this it says the computer needs to restart. Everything is normal up to there. When it does restart it does the normal things up to the BOOT FROM CD and instead of saying PRESS ANY KEY TO BOOT FROM CD it just starts the begining of the XP install again, and not the rest of the XP install. ONE BIG LOOP.
I thought it might be somthing in the BIOS but i checked it with my other computer and they seem to be the same.
Please can anyone give advice
I thought it might be somthing in the BIOS but i checked it with my other computer and they seem to be the same.
Please can anyone give advice
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