P5AD2 booting problems with XP

[Stephen Faehn]

I've put together a new system with the following configuration :

Ultra X-Connect 500W ATX PS w/2 80mm Fans
Intel P4 550 3.4Ghz 1MB Cache 800fsb SocT 775 HT
Speeze Sckt 775 Intel Prescott 3.4GHz Cooling Fan
Asus P5AD2 Premium Socket 775 Motherboard
Kingston 1024MB PC4200 DDR2 533MHZ
Abit Radeon X600 XT 256mb PCIe w/DVI & TV Out
Maxtor IDE 30GB Hard drive
Some older CD-Rom
Windows XP


The PSU has only a 20-pin power connection, but I have read on this
group that this is ok.
The hard drive is configured as the primary master, the CD-ROM device
is slave.
The machine powers up ok, I can get into the BIOS (1008 version) and
see the devices.
The BIOS also recongnises the 1024 RAM. The manual supports the
Kingston memory.
I haven't made any changes to the BIOS.
The Hard Drive came out of my older machine which has an ASUS socket
487 mother board.
However, when XP starts up on the P5AD2 board, XP hangs and then the
system reboots.
Upon restarting, I try and boot XP in 'Safe Mode' and it too causes
the system to reboot.
I've taken the Hard Drive off the P5AD2 and placed it back in my older
ASUS board and there it boots with no problems.
I then took yet another hard drive off another XP system I have and it
too would not load XP on the P5AD2 board.
I can boot XP off the CD-Rom and go into 'repair mode' and get a dos
shell started. chkdsk reports no errors.
I took yet another IDE hard drive and connected it to the P5AD2 board
and tried to install XP on it.
However, during the XP inspection phase, XP crashes with a system
failure message.
I've tried re-seating the Kingston RAM in another slot, yet the same
problem occurs.

Any clues?
Thanks in advance

 

[Benjamin]

Does it ever get to the "graphics" part of the XP bootup? I'm
wondering if it's the video card having a problem. Try adjusting some
of the BIOS video card related settings.

-Ben

 

[LeeBos]

XP does not like you swapping motherboards or video cards in some cases. I had
a similar problem when trying to replace a video card. Constant reboots with
the new card. To get it to work I had to boot from the Win XP CD and do a
"Repair" install.

 

[MM]

I took yet another IDE hard drive and connected it to the P5AD2 board
and tried to install XP on it.
However, during the XP inspection phase, XP crashes with a system
failure message.

If haven't fixed it yet, what is the message?

/MM