|
|
|
|
| Author |
Message |
Kim Webb
Guest
|
 Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 9:40 pm Post subject: XP locks up during install on Tyan S1854 Trinity 400 |
 |
|
I have a computer Tyan S1854 Trinity 400 motherboard with a pentium III 800
that has been running Windows 98 for several years. I wanted to upgrade to
Windows XP so I purchased a new hard drive and booted to the cd from the
cdrom and the install locks up in various places during the install. It
never gets past 27%.
The first time I tried to install it stopped at 2%. I replaced the memory
and ran a simmtester program. It got to 5% the next time but still locked
up. I moved the new memory from the first slot to the last slot. No
change.
I tried a new cdrom. Locked up aat about 5%.
I replaced the AGP card with another one, still locked up. I replaced it
with a PCI card. Still locked up.
I tried faster, slower and every piece of memory I could get my hands on but
it still locks up.
There is never an error.
I tried two other hard drives, one locks up at the point it formats it as
NTFS, the other one gets all the way through and gives this error " the
critical system information file syssetup.inf is corrupt or missing"
I updated the BIOS to the latest version but no luck with that either.
Can I assume it is either the motherboard or the processor?
If anyone has any suggestions I would love to try them. Thanks in advance! |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
|
|
c
Guest
|
| Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 5:48 am Post subject: Re: XP locks up during install on Tyan S1854 Trinity 400 |
|
|
I think I would try another CD. Also make sure your memory timings are not
aggressive, or you are overclocking your CPU.
Chris
"Kim Webb" <kimwebb@pos.org> wrote in message
news:396f49e7.0405180840.63d13c1e@posting.google.com...
| Quote: | I have a computer Tyan S1854 Trinity 400 motherboard with a pentium III
800
that has been running Windows 98 for several years. I wanted to upgrade
to
Windows XP so I purchased a new hard drive and booted to the cd from the
cdrom and the install locks up in various places during the install. It
never gets past 27%.
The first time I tried to install it stopped at 2%. I replaced the memory
and ran a simmtester program. It got to 5% the next time but still locked
up. I moved the new memory from the first slot to the last slot. No
change.
I tried a new cdrom. Locked up aat about 5%.
I replaced the AGP card with another one, still locked up. I replaced it
with a PCI card. Still locked up.
I tried faster, slower and every piece of memory I could get my hands on
but
it still locks up.
There is never an error.
I tried two other hard drives, one locks up at the point it formats it as
NTFS, the other one gets all the way through and gives this error " the
critical system information file syssetup.inf is corrupt or missing"
I updated the BIOS to the latest version but no luck with that either.
Can I assume it is either the motherboard or the processor?
If anyone has any suggestions I would love to try them. Thanks in
advance! |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
pjp
Guest
|
| Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 6:42 am Post subject: Re: XP locks up during install on Tyan S1854 Trinity 400 |
|
|
I have same motherboard using a PIII 733 with fsb set to 140Mz (overclocked
to approx 770Mz) and 512 ram (256, 128 and 128, all 3 slots used). Been more
or less stable for years now running 98SE that way. It took XP Pro (dual
boot) no problem. Thought OS was crap after 2 weeks and scrapped XP to
happily return to 98SE.
"c" <c@me.org> wrote in message
news:z9yqc.11643$zn.1882@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
| Quote: | I think I would try another CD. Also make sure your memory timings are not
aggressive, or you are overclocking your CPU.
Chris
"Kim Webb" <kimwebb@pos.org> wrote in message
news:396f49e7.0405180840.63d13c1e@posting.google.com...
I have a computer Tyan S1854 Trinity 400 motherboard with a pentium III
800
that has been running Windows 98 for several years. I wanted to upgrade
to
Windows XP so I purchased a new hard drive and booted to the cd from the
cdrom and the install locks up in various places during the install. It
never gets past 27%.
The first time I tried to install it stopped at 2%. I replaced the
memory
and ran a simmtester program. It got to 5% the next time but still
locked
up. I moved the new memory from the first slot to the last slot. No
change.
I tried a new cdrom. Locked up aat about 5%.
I replaced the AGP card with another one, still locked up. I replaced
it
with a PCI card. Still locked up.
I tried faster, slower and every piece of memory I could get my hands on
but
it still locks up.
There is never an error.
I tried two other hard drives, one locks up at the point it formats it
as
NTFS, the other one gets all the way through and gives this error " the
critical system information file syssetup.inf is corrupt or missing"
I updated the BIOS to the latest version but no luck with that either.
Can I assume it is either the motherboard or the processor?
If anyone has any suggestions I would love to try them. Thanks in
advance!
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
c
Guest
|
| Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 8:43 am Post subject: Re: XP locks up during install on Tyan S1854 Trinity 400 |
|
|
Sometimes XP will halt or BSOD when memory timings or CPU settings are too
agressive. It doesn't happen all the time, but it can happen.
Chris
"pjp" <pjp_is_located_at_@_hotmail_._com> wrote in message
news:8Yyqc.43885$Np3.1812557@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
| Quote: | I have same motherboard using a PIII 733 with fsb set to 140Mz
(overclocked
to approx 770Mz) and 512 ram (256, 128 and 128, all 3 slots used). Been
more
or less stable for years now running 98SE that way. It took XP Pro (dual
boot) no problem. Thought OS was crap after 2 weeks and scrapped XP to
happily return to 98SE.
"c" <c@me.org> wrote in message
news:z9yqc.11643$zn.1882@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
I think I would try another CD. Also make sure your memory timings are
not
aggressive, or you are overclocking your CPU.
Chris
"Kim Webb" <kimwebb@pos.org> wrote in message
news:396f49e7.0405180840.63d13c1e@posting.google.com...
I have a computer Tyan S1854 Trinity 400 motherboard with a pentium
III
800
that has been running Windows 98 for several years. I wanted to
upgrade
to
Windows XP so I purchased a new hard drive and booted to the cd from
the
cdrom and the install locks up in various places during the install.
It
never gets past 27%.
The first time I tried to install it stopped at 2%. I replaced the
memory
and ran a simmtester program. It got to 5% the next time but still
locked
up. I moved the new memory from the first slot to the last slot. No
change.
I tried a new cdrom. Locked up aat about 5%.
I replaced the AGP card with another one, still locked up. I replaced
it
with a PCI card. Still locked up.
I tried faster, slower and every piece of memory I could get my hands
on
but
it still locks up.
There is never an error.
I tried two other hard drives, one locks up at the point it formats it
as
NTFS, the other one gets all the way through and gives this error "
the
critical system information file syssetup.inf is corrupt or missing"
I updated the BIOS to the latest version but no luck with that either.
Can I assume it is either the motherboard or the processor?
If anyone has any suggestions I would love to try them. Thanks in
advance!
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
David Schwartz
Guest
|
| Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 2:38 am Post subject: Re: XP locks up during install on Tyan S1854 Trinity 400 |
|
|
pjp wrote:
| Quote: | I have same motherboard using a PIII 733 with fsb set to 140Mz
(overclocked to approx 770Mz) and 512 ram (256, 128 and 128, all 3
slots used). Been more or less stable for years now running 98SE that
way. It took XP Pro (dual boot) no problem. Thought OS was crap after
2 weeks and scrapped XP to happily return to 98SE.
|
Stability with one OS does not prove that the hardware is stable.
Anytime you have a problem with an overclocked machine, you should first see
if you can replicate the problem without the overclocking. You should also
run memtest86 for a few hours to confirm that the memory is stable.
In fact, you should run memtest86 from www.memtest.org on any machine on
which it has not been run. It's free and will catch a lot of hardware
problems that will eventually manifest as unpredictable crashes. You should
run it again any time you make hardware or BIOS settings changes.
You'll be very glad you did. If it finds a problem, you'll be spared the
eventual crashes that inevitably result. If it doesn't, you'll be reassured
that RAM is not your problem.
DS |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Fix your Windows Problems - FAST.
FREE Safe Scan Registry Check. Locate & Fix Errors in Minutes!
|
|
|
|
| |
Watched Topics
Search
Register
Log in to check your private messages
Profile
Log in
Memberlist
Usergroups