kdrp
05-19-2006, 07:03 PM
I have a friend that decided to built himself a new computer but he's gotten off to quite a rough start. When he put it all together It couldn't get past the initial windows install screen so he couldn't even format his HD's.
We figured out that it was the memory, so we swapped the memory from his old pc into the new one and everything seemed to work.... til windows was installed. The windows he had was somehow corrupt so he just used another version which works fine now.
Anyway the question is, do you think that the memory is not compatible with the motherboard? If its bad he'll find out when he runs memtest.
Memory Corsair XMS DDR 500
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145596
Motherboard DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136166
He's got a OCZ GamerXstream 600W PS, AMD 3800 X2, and a BFG 7900 GT.
We figured out that it was the memory, so we swapped the memory from his old pc into the new one and everything seemed to work.... til windows was installed. The windows he had was somehow corrupt so he just used another version which works fine now.
Anyway the question is, do you think that the memory is not compatible with the motherboard? If its bad he'll find out when he runs memtest.
Memory Corsair XMS DDR 500
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145596
Motherboard DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136166
He's got a OCZ GamerXstream 600W PS, AMD 3800 X2, and a BFG 7900 GT.