Hi all,
Following on from Mooseheads posting:
'Nvidia+Via+AMD BSOD XP Advice please' ,
I find myself in a similar situation.
I bought the following: AMD Athlon XP +2400, Abit NF7-M, Maxtor 80GB IDE HD, and a cd-rw and case.
I put it all together, and experienced the exact same problems, and BSOD's that Moosehead had.
I sent all the stuff back, and got it tested, to be told that the motherboard was faulty. So they sent me a new one. Put it back together, - similar problem. (By now beginning to chew my nails off).
Sent it all back, to be informed that the Ram wasn't compatible with the rest of the stuff. -Fair enough. So i got it all sent back with a different brand of Ram, and they said they'd tested the ram, motherboard and processor together, and they'd passed all benchmarks.
Now here's the problem: Put it all back together yesterday, re-formatted and partitioned hard drive and started to install windows XP. Low and behold another problem. Two thirds of the way through installation, i get the BSOD reading:Fault with ntfs.sys.
I tried again and got another BSOD saying something to the effect of: ''device fault, check device and check for updated drivers''.
At this point i went to the pub to cry into a beer.
Any ideas? I'm pretty new at this and therefore have exhausted all my ideas already. Please help!
Following on from Mooseheads posting:
'Nvidia+Via+AMD BSOD XP Advice please' ,
I find myself in a similar situation.
I bought the following: AMD Athlon XP +2400, Abit NF7-M, Maxtor 80GB IDE HD, and a cd-rw and case.
I put it all together, and experienced the exact same problems, and BSOD's that Moosehead had.
I sent all the stuff back, and got it tested, to be told that the motherboard was faulty. So they sent me a new one. Put it back together, - similar problem. (By now beginning to chew my nails off).
Sent it all back, to be informed that the Ram wasn't compatible with the rest of the stuff. -Fair enough. So i got it all sent back with a different brand of Ram, and they said they'd tested the ram, motherboard and processor together, and they'd passed all benchmarks.
Now here's the problem: Put it all back together yesterday, re-formatted and partitioned hard drive and started to install windows XP. Low and behold another problem. Two thirds of the way through installation, i get the BSOD reading:Fault with ntfs.sys.
I tried again and got another BSOD saying something to the effect of: ''device fault, check device and check for updated drivers''.
At this point i went to the pub to cry into a beer.
Any ideas? I'm pretty new at this and therefore have exhausted all my ideas already. Please help!