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I just bought and put together a new tower into an Antec P180.

-Pentium D 920 2.8ghz 800mhz FSB
-OCZ 2gb Kit
-Antec True Power II 550W power supply
-Asus P5LD2 Mobo
-ATI Radeon X1600 PRO PCIExpress X16 512MB

Using my old HD and CD-rom for now. I've put everything together, plugged everything in double checking my work and when i try and install windows I get blue screened. I checked my ram and I've tried formatting my HD off my old computer. Can anyone help me please?

drivers possibly?
Make sure u got latest Intel Application Accelerators (IAA) and intel matrix storage drivers, and i dont mean in windows, make sure u got the latest ones when you F6 innstall... when yuo download the IAA package, read through the readme on how to make a bootdisk for F6 installation.

I would guess driver first, then after that i would look at your heatsink and make sure its mounted correctly, poor contact could also do that.

I agree with IV - make sure the thermal compound is on correctly and not an inch thick

First guess would have been yours - the memory...had that happen SOOOOOOO many times..argh.

Mike

ok so tonight I've put together another system..

-Asus P5WD2-E Premium Socket T LGA 775 Intel 975X
-Intel 930 3.0ghz 800mhz FSB Socket 775 2x2MB Dual Core
-Patriot eXtreme Performance 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 ( PC2 6400 )
-Matrox Parhelia APVE 128MB PCIExpress X16 Dual 400mhz 1X Dual

so far.. both systems = error after the windows CD loads. I've tried my old HD's Maxtor 30gb / WD 120gb and then I tried new HD's Samsung 250GB SATA 3gb/s to no avail.

You might have already fixed it but, here is a couple of suggestions anyway. If you are putting the cdrom and hd onto one ide cable, make sure you set the cdrom to slave and hd to master.

Use Intels Sata Controller first.

Put the cdrom and/or hd to the BLUE IDE connector, it might work despite what the manual say.

Also Asus has its own troubleshooting forum and you might find the solution there.

Thanks to those who tried to help. The fix for anyone who has this problem is that you need to flash the bios :\

So you had to flash both BIOS s? Why do you think you had to do that? The CPU s, the mem.hmmmm

This is the same argument i got into with my brother in law the other day which he know nothing about builing systems but I was trying to tell him about motherboard and cpu how they build board and ship them with bios setup that don't work for some cpu that will be out in the future and you might get one of these boards thinking it will work say with the newest cpu out there because the site says it supports that cpu and whow guess what you have to flash the bios for it to work.