[RESOLVED] [XP] Hard ware failure

[eddds40]

Motherboard = Gigabyte GA K8NS
OS = win98 maxtor drive xp on hitachi drive
Pc was left running 1 hour later had shut down, couldn’t restart (Discovered later that had bent a tab in usb port and this probably caused it to short out although the thumb drive was removed from that drive and used in another usb slot successfully before leaving the pc with pc running.)
Replaced MB , Power supply, CPU from a 2800 sempron to a 3100, AGP card although have never been able to install a different one than I was using at that time.
Ok now I can boot on the win 98 drive and read all of the xp drive except for the boot drive which may have been ntfs the others fat 32 ( 3 partions on each hard drive) If I try to boot to xp It locks on give iosystem. I have tried recover over the top install both lock at 10 or 11% when loading drivers.
I have taken both old hard drives out placed in a new one formatted it fat 32 and tried to install xp on the new drive still locks at 10 or 11% when loading drivers.
The mother board wont let me upgrade the bios it is on F18 which only one after that is F 19. Have cleared the cmos several times . The xp drive had speed fan running which I have researched places data or produces the giveio.sys command. How it could get to a brand new hard drive beyond me so wonder if that is really the problem. Before I installed the new mother board I didn’t catch that the usb port that was bent over and probably shorting out in the case usb,was attached when first trying to startup .
I am thinking that something must be damaged on the mother board. BUT why would it run win 98 if so? Anybody got any ideas? The only thing I have learned from this so far is to be careful when inserting usb devices. Thanks to anyone who reads this long post Edds40

[SuperSparks]

Try testing the RAM, you can run either or both of these from a floppy, without needing to boot into Windows:

Memtest86

Windows Memory Diagnostic


Windows 98 won't normally use any RAM addresses higher than the first 160MB or so, so any memory faults in the higher regions don't affect W98 but will affect the NT-based OSs, which will use all available memory.

[eddds40]

Forgot to mention that I had also tried replacing RAM but running memtest now

[eddds40]

running memtest -86 v3.2 2 passes made so far with no errors. Running in standard

[eddds40]

GOT it Removed all pci cards am sure I had done that before but maybe on old motherboard. My deduction is that pci cards were causing a conflict in the bios probably the onboard LAN with the additional 1 installed although I had disabled the on board Lan in setup.
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