I don't know what the porblem is. I have a ECS K7S5A Pro rev.5 board with an Athlon XP 1800+. I can't get XP setup to run. It's runs all the way through 98SE setup but not XP.I'm getting angry beacuse I've exchanged the motherboard and CPU already and no luck. It just locks up at the screen that sais Setup is Starting Windows, this is the blue screen, even before I can make any partitions. I mean what the hell is the problem?? anyone know?
Specs:
Athlon XP 1800+
ECS K7S5A Pro rev. 5
128MB SDRAM
ATI Rage PCI 8MB
Western Digital 40gig 7200RPM HDD
52x CDROM
FDD
What I've tried:
1) Exchanged Mobo/CPU already
2) Tested XP CD on other rig and it worked there but not here
3) Tried unplugging everything except Video/cdrom same result
4) Tried different RAM even some Mushkin DDR, no luck
The only two things left are the PSU/CDROM to work with but it can't be because it was able to run Win98SE all the way through with no problems. Anyone have this problem??




I'm getting angry beacuse I've exchanged the motherboard and CPU already and no luck. It just locks up at the screen that sais Setup is Starting Windows, this is the blue screen, even before I can make any partitions. I mean what the hell is the problem?? anyone know?
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