okay, so first off i had a poor single core pc (i know) with a 120gb HDD that has windows xp32 bit and 512mb ram, now i've had some money, i have gone out bought basically bought a whole new PC just not a HDD yet.
the motherboard is an ASRock M3A770DE (new)
CPU: amd phenom x4 955 (new)
RAM: 2 transcend 4gb 1333mhz sticks, (8gb) (new)
GPU: ASUS 8800GTX (secondhand from ebay)
HDD: hp 120gb With windows xp 32bit (from old tower)
PSU: alpha 750w (new)
CD drive: one out old HP tower (...)
Right, so i have it in a new pc case, not the best but it works. i have all the stuff in and have a monitor with a VGA connector, with a DVI adapter to fit into the graphics card.
the monitor shows me what is going on, i can enter BIOS and change stuff around and all that, but when it goes to boot up, it gives a hardware/software issue, with the options of picking the safe modes, last known working config. and start windows normally, but none of these work. what happens is it loads up, i see a glimpse of the XP loading screen, then a Blue screen flashes before going to this hardware error issue.
I've tried setting the HDD to boot first and then the CD-ROM to boot first but nothing, i've put a vista 64bit disc into the CD-ROM and tried uploading s new 64bit windows...
but it keeps coming back to the hardware issue, i've also tried taking one of the 4gb sticks out to see if that works but had no luck either
anyone with a solution on this? even if it doesn't work i'd still be grateful for your input, thanks martin
