I'm having a bit of trouble. I got my video card finally, put it in, and got everything inside the pc organized and out of the way of the airflow, and then i turned on the pc. I went into the bios, and set my combo drive(Cd-Rom in bios) as 1st in the boot order(or whatever). Then the Hdd(Hard Disk), then the cd rom again(i have 1 combo, 1 dvd-rom. Is that configuration right?
The other trouble. I put in my xp home cd, it did boot, but then when I selected #1, which was Install new, or something to that effect, it came up with an error that I didnt write down(and wish i would have). I'll do it again so I can see the error. From what I remember, it said It shut down windows in order to prevent my hardware from being damaged, and that if this is the first time I've seen this messege try and restart and try again. I don't know what to do now, im stuck. I don't think I skipped any steps.
One again I did the follow:
1. pc started up, it checked hardware etcc...
2. went to bios
3. set boot order: cd-rom, hard disk, cd-rom.
4. restart the computer
5. put in xp home disk
6. it auto-installed preliminary files, selected new install
7. got error
EDIT: Error is: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Technical information: STOP: 0x0000000A(0x00000005, 0x00000002
0x00000001, 0x807cb449)
I recognize that damn code from somewhere.... it looks SO DAMN FIMILIAR..... I know I've seen it before, but I can't remember where. Imma search for it though. Any help btw?
EDIT AGAIN: Someone else had a problem with this error while using a p2p client. I read it, but I didnt see anything that would help.
JESUS... ANOTHER EDIT: Found this when I searched google: 'irql not less or equal error usually indicates a hardware problem, normally the memory or video. As I can vouch for the ATA Rage 128 video card and Windows XP its pointing to-wards a memory problem. Windows XP is known to be more fussy about memory than previous versions"
I pull from that paragraph that I should try 1 stick of 512 ram at a time?...................