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Hello! Please help me out there. I've just got a new compy (or at least the parts) and I'm having a huge problem. I got a i945G-m7 motherboard, with a Pentium D CPU. It's all togeter, and it fires fine. I can get into the BIOS, tell it to boot from CD.

1. it boots from CD, all it fine. XP pro install begins
2. it loads drivers, ect, but asks me nothing
3. it randomly restarts and boots from CD again, starting the process again.

I've tried it on different hard drives, switching up my cables, removing my video card and just using onboard video, ect...

Oh, and if I try to boot from CD after it restarts, it goes to a 'start in safe mode' screen but it just locks up, or restarts. -that's with a hard drive that has a an OS on it already.

I tried the install on an OS without an OS and it just says 'no OS detected'

I'm really running out of options here. Thanks a lot.

d.

DUDE! the same thing is happening to me right now!
I don?t know how to fix it
my guess is that, there is something wrong w/ the motherboard.
MY GUESS ONLY!

welcome to PCHF culling,



Let me ask you, do you get though the total install for windows before restart or no? if not where does the error happen? middle? end? is this a old or new HD too?

Hey, thanks for the warm welcome!

It restarts about a min. into the install. It doesn't even get to the 'format drive' part. The drive is old (not really old) but I've tried just overwriting the OS there, and I've now tried a blank one. The same windows CD will install on the same hard drive using the shell of my former computer. So I'm thinking the hard drive is ok.....

I've just tested my Ram (by trying different ram and getting the same problem)

thanks. hope that is more clear.

Hey there cullingsong,

Could you check the fans on your motherboard and your PSU and make sure they are turning, it sounds like it could be related to a heat issue.

Could you explain exactly what new parts you have in the comp and what was originally there, so we get an idea of what we are looking at.

All the fans keeps spinning...I don't think it's a heat issue because it always restarts at the same time.

I got a i945G-m7 motherboard, a Pentium D 2.8G, 2x DDRII Ram 512, I'm using my old DVD bunner (about 3 months old) and I've been trying three different hard drives, a 20g, 40g, and a 160g. oh ya, and some 128 meg video card.

I can get the DVD rom to install the OS on all the hard drives on my old machine when I stick them back in it.

I've tested the ram, tried just using the onboard video all to no avail.

The only thing I've discovered is that I THINK the pc is rebooting when it says something about NTFS in the windows installation. However, this is way before we even get to the 'how do you want to format' section.

I'm going to set up killdisk I think on a dvd with a dos promp and try to nuke a hard drive and see if that does anything. However, again, I have a feeling that it would reboot even if a hard drrive wasn't hooked up. I'm going to try that too.

Does any of that help?

digging digging digging.

Yup that helps,

Can you try changing the IDE cable that connects to the hard drive.

Do you get to the part where you can partition the hard drive, or does it reboot before then?

Let us know how you get on with your tests that you were going to perform.