untruehero
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hi everyone im having major problems, i had some problems a few months ago with over heating so I ended up taking my machine to microcenter and they told me it was either the chip or the board....so i sent the board back because it was under warranty and abit sent me back another AN7 board. so i hooked everything up...i found out my one harddrive was bad...must have burned out when everything was overheating....it was only 40gigs so im not too concerned. then i tried my big 120 gig hd which had 98 on it from when microcenter was working on it...it worked fine...so i tried installing XP...i get this crazy blue screen error when XP is installing in DOS right after it goes over all the drives it says starting setup or something...and it hangs for a bit then gives me a blue screen error...saying the computer needs to restart or damage might be caused....so then i took my hd from my other compter which has 2000 on it...it gets to the 2000 boot screen and has the blocks at the bottom showing it is loading and then it gives me the crazy blue screen it looks to be similar to the XP error screen but not 100%...so this is my dilema....is it my chip that is bad? AMD will take it back and give me another chip that is not as fast as the one i have...but i only have another 10days till the offer stands...it doesnt seem to be over heating but it is sitting at 63c in bios which isnt too cool....i know XP and 2000 run on 32 bit and 98 is 16 so is that the problem...can anyone help me...i dont want to have to buy new parts if i dont have to....im running a AN7 mobo with a barton 3000+ chip, with 512 single stick 400ddr corciar ram...with a 120 gig maxtor hd along with other HDs that im testing....thanks again...i will buy anyone a case of beer if they can fix this...and if they are legal
thanks scott
thanks scott