OS freezes with new mainboard

I purchased an Asrock mainboard with a Pentium 4 CPU and 1 GB of RAM. Everything connected like I should do, but every operating system freezes at the boot screen. Even Acronis Disk Director freezes. I looked for answers on the asrock.com website, but I'm still having this problem.

 

The install of windows from your old PC will only work with motherboards which use the same chipset as the motherboard used when windows was installed.

If they are different chipsets then you will have to reinstall windows.

 

Well, I reinstalled Windows. Was a clean install. Completely formatted the partition to NTFS and installed windows on it. But the bootscreen of XP freezes at the first boot of the installation (the part where the rich graphical installation is loaded). Sometimes the bootscreen doesn't freeze, but when the light blue background of the setup wizard is displayed, it freezes even before the mouse cursor is displayed

 

thats unusual, before i looked at this thread and looked at title, i thought, i bet its an Asus motherboard, it seems asus motherboards are always making stuff go wrong :\.

try resetting your bios settings then installing windows again? maybe something in the bios is set wrong?

 

I've tried this about six times, but still the same problem.

 

What's the entire specs of this system, including the power supply?

 

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz
RAM: DDR400 1 GB
HDD: Maxtor 80 GB
Power supply: Q-tec ATX 350W
Graphics: Integrated Intel Extreme 2 (96 MB shared)
DVD ROM Drive
CD R/RW Drive

 

Freezing could possibly be related to power supply issues, but i aint sure on this, your system aint a super resource hungry system with powerfull gpu and cpu in so i aint sure if it could be the power supply.

 

Q-tec is one of the worst power supply companies out there. They're absolute garbage, so I suggest snagging something by Antec, Enermax, or FSP/Sparkle/Fortron 350W-450W which should actually give you the proper power output.

 

I bought a new case with new atx supply and mainboard (asus p4s800m-x). i'm busy building it, so this could take a day

 

Any Psu's that come with cases are usually cheapo crap, what is the specs and the make / model of the psu that came with the case?

 

Every thing works fine now. It was caused by a bad mainboard. (btw the psu of the new case has 400W ).
Thanks for all help!