Problem : Major incompatibility issue with Antec NeoHE Power Supply Units.
Symptoms (not exclusive):
- Multiple (20 or more) un-installable Texas Instrument OCHI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controllers devices in Devices Manager;
- Windows XP SP1/SP2/whatever hangs on install at exactly 34 minutes remaining;
- User only able to install Windows XP after multiple (20+) tries;
- Windows freezes on bootup or takes several minutes to boot up to desktop.
Solution : Use another brand of PSU! The incompatibility is more likely when using ASUS powersupplies (not only P5W DH). Antec pretends a BIOS update fixes this (no bios up to 1101 on P5W DH works). They also offer to fix the PSU via RMA (yet to be tested).
Props to Carcamel for the solution! You da man!
See my thread for more info about this:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=111370
That was my most frustrating build ever so far. But the reward should be plenty considering I upgrade from an Athlon XP :D