well thats just ****ing fantastic

[ch0ke]

i cant install xp pro on my pc

it gives bsod when its in process of installing

when i boot up from disc, everything goes fine it sees all the drives and partitions and i can format then it gets to installing and it gives bsod

ive tried my ram on other peoples pcs and they work , ive tried other peoples ram on my pc and i still get error

ive tried other people graphics cards on my pc and i still get error

ive tried unplugging different hard drives, cd rom, dvd rom sound card, etc 1 by 1 and still get error

ive tried using an ide hard drive still get error

ive tried using differnt versions of windows xp install cd 1 with sp1 and one without get error

so im wondering could it be a memory error? psu error? or a motherboard error?

what do you suggest as i have to fork out alot of money now to buy parts and i dont even know whats wrong.

at one point in the bsod i was getting IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

my specs are CPU - P4 3.4GHZ 800MHz FSB, MOBO - Asus P4P800 SE "Springdale" (Socket 478), Memory - Corsair 1GB DDR XMS3200C2PT TwinX (2x512MB), Graphics Card - MSI GeForce FX5200 128 MB, Sound Card - Creative Audigy 2 ZS 5.1, Hard Drive Master - Western Digital 250 GB SATA, Hard Drive Slave - Maxtor 160 GB SATA, Primary IDE Master - DVD ROM, Primary IDE Slave - CD ReWriter

im about to buy my motherboard again to see if it is ****ed but thats quit alot of money based on a guess, and im getting a new vid card but i doubt thatll make a differece

 

[Shamrock]

It is more than likely the Motherboard problem.

 

[SupremePain]

can you find your harddisk in BIOS?

 

[goss]

EDIT* woops didn't read what you said correctly the first time.

 

[[w0f]Oblivion]

check your bios settings

 

[Phisionary]

IIRC, the last time I got this error was when my RAM was bad. A search shows that this usually caused by overheating or over-overclocking of RAM or CPU; or failiure of these...

If you are OCing, try running at stock. If you aren't, or that doesn't fix it, make sure 'quick-post' is DISABLED in the BIOS. This will do a slower and slkightly more thourough check of system memory. Even better would be making a boot floppy/CD with Memtest86+ and running it on your system for a while. Or... it could be an incorrect setting in the BIOS. Make sure everything is set to stock, and is correct for your CPU and such...

Lastly, could be hardware failure. Try to narrow it down, and get rid of the bad part.