BioTech Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 Good evening, everybody! I am a newcomer to this forum and I am looking to buy my first ever Corsair memory module. I am looking to buy this replacement motherboard ABIT IC7-MAX3, a Corsair VS512MB400 512MB DDR400 PC3200 CAS2.5 Value Select Memory memory module, and an Intel P4 2.6GHz w/ FSB800. Will this combo work okay? BTW, the MOBO that failed was a 3-yr. old ABIT VT6X4 with a fully functional 866MHz Slot1 Processor (1 yr. old and never been overclocked :~~~~~~~~~~((((((((((((((( ...) and 3 sticks of 512 MB PC133 SDRAM (2 yrs. old and they passed memtest86's 11 tests 11 times each with no errors :((( ...). The MOBO has no problem detecting the HDDs, video card, Zip drive, and CD-ROM drive. However, I keep getting the error message "Error loading operating system" everytime the computer searches all the drives for boot instructions. I have assumed that it was the MOBO because the memory has passed memtest86 many consecutive times, the computer remembers the BIOS, but when I remove all existing hard drives, attach a brand new IDE HDD, then try to install Win2K on it, I still get the message "Error loading operating system" when the installation tries to get into Win2k for the first time, and I don't ever get to enter a Product Key! I have even tried to switch the new HDD from IDE-1 to IDE-2 but to no avail. If I could somehow fix this error, then I would be ever so grateful. If not, then, well, tripling my CPU speed and upgrading to USB 2.0 and AGP 8x can't be all bad... BT PS, I really don't need my new machine to do any high-intensity, or even low-intensity, graphics development or to play even some of the latest greatest PC games with awesome graphics. I just need a PC that will allow me to use Microsoft Office and print occasional documents. Current machine: ---------------------- ABIT VP6 Dual P3 1000MHz FCPGA 2048MB SDRAM PC133 Radeon AIW 8500 128MB External Dial-up modem Audigy Sound Card R.I.P.? -------- ABIT VT6X4 P3 866MHz Slot1 1536MB SDRAM PC133 ELSA Gladiac-64 video card Internal PCI dial-up modem (also bad) Audigy Sound Card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted December 30, 2003 Corsair Employee Share Posted December 30, 2003 Can you tell me the O.S. you have installed? And have you tried a fresh install on another HDD? Here are some links for common memory related problems Err Msg: While Initializing Device NTKERN: Windows Protection... [url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q192397[/url] Err Msg: Insufficient Memory to Initialize Windows [url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q184447[/url] Computer May Reboot Continuously with More Than 1.5 GB of RAM [url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q304943[/url] Computer Speed and Performance May Decrease [url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q259161[/url] Err Msg: Not Enough Extended Memory Available to Run Windows [url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q311367[/url] Troubleshooting Stop 0x24 or NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM Error Messages [url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q228888[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BioTech Posted December 31, 2003 Author Share Posted December 31, 2003 I have Windows 2000 installed. The computer had been working just fine until last Tuesday. And yes, I still got the "error loading operating system" message even after trying to install Windows 2000 on a brand new, never-been-opened, 120GB HDD. In fact, even using a fresh drive, the computer never made it into the GUI portion of the installation! BT Current machine: ---------------------- ABIT VP6 Dual P3 1000MHz FCPGA 2048MB SDRAM PC133 Radeon AIW 8500 128MB External Dial-up modem Audigy Sound Card R.I.P.? -------- ABIT VT6X4 P3 866MHz Slot1 1536MB SDRAM PC133 ELSA Gladiac-64 video card Internal PCI dial-up modem (also bad) Audigy Sound Card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted December 31, 2003 Corsair Employee Share Posted December 31, 2003 If you installed Win2k or WinXP on a partition bigger than 64 Gig that might cause this type of error. Have you ran [url]www.memtest86.com[/url] on the memory to see if the memory will pass a test? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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