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PC WON'T LOAD WINDOWS XP OR WIN2000

Asked by asmodeusnz in Miscellaneous Hardware, Personal Computers, Hardware Components

Tags: load, winfast, windows, pc, xp

Here is the story.

Customer bought faulty PC to me. Compaq Presario S5020AN (3 Weeks out of 1yr Warranty)
Turned on, powered up, but wouldn't post.
After putting in a brand new power supply to no effect I decided it was a motherboard fault.

Ordered a Winfast K7S741MG

Pulled out the old board, installed the new board and changed over the old RAM, and old CPU, replaced all the cables, reset the CMOS, turned it on and YES!! away it went.

Came up with Athlon XP2400+ CPU (which is right) and then proceeded to TRY and load Win XP.

PC crashed with blue screen. Exception error.
Thought ok, could need rebuild. (Different Motherboard etc etc, Fussy Win XP etc)
So I Wiped HDD, and tried to reload a fresh copy of XP.

Each and every time I TRIED to Load XP Home it just crashed with a blue exception screen.
Tried Win2000 Pro with the same result.

Tried to put a Duron 800 CPU in but that didn't even post. Stupid Winfast (Foxconn) site doesn't say if CPU is even compatible with motherboard but the Sales Rep that sold it to me does.

Have also tried 3 different types of 256MB PC2700 333 DDR RAM but they all do the same thing.
I have some good quality Legend DDR400 RAM in the PC I'm using now but am reluctant to use that.

Problem seems to be also getting worse now. I no longer get any exception errors.
After putting in the XP-Home CDROM it proceeds to load all the drivers and stuff but now gets to:
"Windows is starting up", then it loads the Keyboard drivers and then turns itself off.

If it was mine I would have used my Tractor to fix it by giving it a "Run down" .................
...But its a customers and I'm sure he'd like to get it back fixed and with an operating system on it.

Any ideas people???
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