ahhhh !! Its happening again... Im installing XP on a new computer i built. I get through all the setup....Time, Date... etc... But as i watch the progress bar it says NETWORK INSTALL, or sumthin like that.. and then, a couple of secounds later i get the dreaded blue screen of death... tried a few bios settings (old bios 2000 date. a7v8x-x Asus) But, if anyone wknows ANY and i Mean ANY thing i cud do. I would be more than grateful... Oh yea.. and i got a wireless Pci card in there... mite that b a contributed to it? ? Cheers --Btw, Dnt drink smirnoff ice.....
Remove all unnecessary hardware during the install...so you should be down to the motherboard, CPU, CPU heatsink, 1 stick of RAM, the video card, one hard drive, and one optical drive (and power supply, of course). Take it from there. Clear CMOS before trying again, in case there's something set incorrectly.
Thank You boss Turns out the ram was bust... grrrr... now im down 512 from my computer..... ahh well, cheers for yr help anyway guv
This is something that works wonders for me. I work on alot of people's computers and replace ram when it test bad, every so often i go back through the box of bad ram and test it again, this time i clean the pin contacts with a pencil eraser. 85% of the ram that tested bad works good as new again. what happens is: when you install and remove the ram a couple of times it makes a track on the contacts and it oxidizes. You think the ram is bad, what do you have to lose, it's worth a try.
That is such a fu**ing gd idea. whoever thort of that deserves a medal.... aint tried it yet thou lol.. cheers for the help m8
remember the old nintendo systems when they first came out, the games would play great for a while then become a total pain? well i seen people blow on them, and use Q-Tips with cleaning solutions, but the pencil trick was what worked for me. I was looking at a stick of ram that cost $150us and was thinking what a F@$#ing shame, when i noticed the track left by the ram slot pins, did the old pencil trick and it was good as new. This has brought a few video cards back from the dead too.
