DJNafey,

I didn't say that "I just put a Celeron 2.0 ghz cpu in a ABIT MB VI7 P4 SOCKET478 VIA-PT800 800FSB DDR400 AGP8X AUDIO SATA150 RAID...would be the best"

I said "I just put a Celeron 2.0 ghz cpu in a ABIT MB VI7 P4 SOCKET478 VIA-PT800 800FSB DDR400 AGP8X AUDIO SATA150 RAID...would be better".

Ofcourse, you can add a 30 pages documentation which will tell you if it supports the Celeron or not but I chose not to. Thats all

My Celeron 2.0GHZ is fully compatible with the motherboard I checked myself...also I put this all together myself it isnt my first time either but it is my first time with a P4 motherboard.... there are no errors when the Motherboard reads the memory or the HDD or CD-RW drive everything works great until I try to install Windows or boot up windows.... i set HDD to primary boot and when it try's to boot up Windows the pc restarts.... so then i decided to just do a clean installation of Windows but as soon as I press enter it reboots so im confused.....

sorry if i continue to be off the mark here but you have me confused and curious.

you set the HDD to primary boot? i thought the HDD was blank?

[Situation]I got BIOS running and have full access to it.... I set CD-ROM drive as primary boot device.... and I am trying to install Windows XP to a clean HDD....
[Problem] When I try to install Windows XP the pc boots up the disk but then freezes when it trys to install....

discribe "freezes" ... what happens?

so then i put a HDD that had windows XP on it and after it verified pool data it rebooted

just to reiterate: a drive that has xp on it will not work on any other computer other than that upon which it was installed.

(just to test your system perhaps try to install another OS)

this is a free Linux based download that can be burned to CD & booted

knoppix

the HDD has Windows XP on it so when I try to boot it up by putting it on primary boot device it shows the Windows XP Professional screen with the little bar loading then when it is about to load up the desktop it reboots so then i tryed to boot up the CD-ROM disk so i put the HDD on secondary boot device and after it loads the devices and ask me to press enter for setup it reboots again....i put the pc on fail safe settings but still got problems.... dude i need to get this running so i can bootleg some stuff and make that bread beeyatch!! (excuse the language and thanks for the help!!!)

dude ... i dunno

here are some googles you can browse ... sorry i wasnt more help

google 1

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google 3


or what about this (going back to the power supply ?):

yeah i ruled out the problem it was my power supply i had a 300 and i upgraded to a 420 but thanks any way man

http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forum...ght=xp+reboots


or this:

HAVE HIGHER WATTAGE TO THE POWER SUPPLY ADDED
The wird thing happen is a sign with out a good reason for the power supply to be up in wattage or there might a short in it.

http://www.duxcw.com/yabbse/index.ph...;threadid=4291


or you might try posting to this usenet group:

microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...owsxp.hardware