XP Pro setup will not on new system

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Matt Kisha

Greetings --

Last night I put together a new computer for my friend's
father. The hardware is:

Gigabyte 7VT-600L motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (333mHZ bus, barton core)
512mb PC3200 DDR400 memory
Seagate 80gb 7200 RPM ATA/100 Hard Drive
GeForce FX5600 256mb DDR 8xAGP Video Card

There is ample cooling, and we have a sufficient power
supply (Antec Truepower 430), but everytime we try to
boot from the XP Pro cd, and load it...it gets almost to
the point at which it'll ask us to hit enter for the
first time, to begin the setup (the first screen) and
gives us a
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGE_AREA
0x00000050
error. We've consulted the microsoft knowledgebase and
technical support on AMD and Gigabyte's websites, but
found nothing. We've also tried the following:
Updating the BIOS: It's already the latest version = F8
Changing memory slots: No difference.
Changing memory modules: No difference, even when using
a DDR333 module
Changing BIOS settings: No apparent difference. Still
got error message, but was a different one at the same
time. This time it gave a 0x00000008 message, not
stating anything about PAGE FAULT, but on reboot, the
0x00000050 message came back.

We're at the end of our rope here and are looking for
suggestions. Please help!
Matt Kisha
 
I have a few suggestions. take the memory out and use one
stick it could be a problem with that chk and see if you
have the cooling fan mounted correctly sometimes if the
cooling fan is mounted and is not dead center it will
cause the machine to appear to work fine for a while and
the crash or sometime crash ant startup. i had that
problem once.... try that
 
Matt, I am having a simular problem, I am putting together
a PC with near Identical setup Gigabyte 7vt-600l Mobo,
XP2600 chip, k-byte 512 pc3200 ram, gigabyte 9200 ati vid
card, maxtor 60gig hd. I have also tried many of the same
fixs, I know this is not an answer to your query, but your
not alone and I am also searching for an answer, if I find
something I will post it here...
 
Guys,

I am having the same problem, with me it gets stucked
every time in the Copying Files process at the driver.cab
file and it gives me that message or the MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
message.
I have tried everything, even different CD's, changing the
BIOS, disabling shadowing and caching, but XP will NOT set
up properly.

If I can't get it fixed today, I will install 98 or
Millenium.

I also have a Maxtor hard drive, 30 GB, is that an
coincidence?

I'll be looking for replies as well and keep you posted.
 
Alot of Install problems can be fixed by running a scan on the hard drive. Try going into Repair mode. Select the drive partition and then run chkdsk /p and then chkdsk /

That might help, Good luck.
 
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