Actually it was your advice that helped me to find the problem, after doing the cmos reset the system had a total failure again which led me to...
Ok well after waking up this morning and it being magically broken again i've finally figured out it was 1 stick of memory that would sometimes...
Apparently the cd finds no drives and aborts installation leaving me with dos; A:\> This mobo loves me ;) Would doing this manually work?...
next part is a bit tougher, i've got a machine with no floppy drive that has a cd drive and a laptop with no cd drive (which i'm using at the...
No i'm not using a usb keyboard, i've got a PS2 keyboard especially for this. (but have tried both of them, just to be sure) The XP download...
Tried that already, did not work, tried with only one drive one memory stick etc plugged in, no other pci card besides the gfx card. I'm going...
Yes i've downloaded + run it (onto a floppy) and used it on my pc, still no luck :(
Sorry, dont mean to seem hard headed just getting furstrated with the machine, i have tried with the disk in + out when i press f6, thanks for...
Bios: Main > IDE Configuration SATA1 and STAT2 [Enabled] SATA3 and SATA4 [Enabled] nVidia RAID Function [Enabled] SATA1 [Enabled] SATA2...
No thats not whats happening, i'd have less of a headache if it was ;) The f6 thing is kind of a keyframe in the whole situation. Just there to...
I cant press f6, it doesnt do anything, the hdd's are Sata, i meant to say that i dont own a sata cd drive. Again, pressing F6 does not let me...
Is making smart comments something you do often without reading the follow up paragraphs, i'm not totally new to computers i know how the setup...
Ok i dont need to press f6 because i have a slipstreamed XP disc (have also tested a basic one) with all my drivers built in, it loads everything...
Its not the f4 part thats the problem, again that is just a reference. It does nothing unless you press the key it just asks you to press it if...
I've never needed to use it in the past and dont actually know what it does either, was just using it as a reference. It just lists those two...
Ok after deciding my old pc was knackered i went out and brought a new one with the following specs: Asus A8N32-SLi Deluxe AMD Athlon 64x2...
Thanks for that, hardware and cleaning computers has never been much of an issue for me, genrally tend to be very good at that. I havent actually...
Ok i ran a stress test on my memory earlier, Since reverting back to IE 6 i've not had any problems with JScript crashes, however, now this has...
I've reverted to previous versions of IE already, but use firefox anyway, the Jscript is a comman thing that crops up in my dump reports, however...
I've had alot more random blue screens recently which is leading me to belive that the problem maybe hardware related, faulty memory block or...
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