If it's not one thing, it's another...
Just bought a load of components to upgrade a friends system.
AMD Athlon XP 2000
Jetway 830CH M/board
512Mb 133MHz RAM
IBM 60Gb HDD
So, I finally get the hardware seemingly working fine after several small hiccups. I'm quite experienced in building and setting up systems, and have never known so many problems!
Firstly attempted to install Win XP. Booted from the CD, got as far as it creating Start Menu data in Setup, and it kept stopping itself due to a "Stop 0x0000000A Irql_Not_Less_or_Equal" type error.
So after multiple attempts I decided to reformat and put Windows ME on the system as I have better knowledge of it and it is the first time I've tried to use XP. ME then decided to have several registry problemsa after a (supposedly) successful installation, and so I thought I'd try 98...98 also had registry problems that the registry checker program could not fix.
Have gone through flashing the BIOS, and re-attempted XP and ME installations again and they are still problematic in the same way and ME won't even boot up now after the first stage of installation.
I think this must be a hardware problem, but I've never come across anything so difficult to diagnose. Any ideas?
Cheers,
Mike