I'm having a bit of tech problems with my new set up here.

Here's what has happend 3 times now.
Install Win XP, head over to via site and install the via 4in1s, reboot,
download and install DirectX 9, reboot, download and install Geforce
drivers, reboot. Everything's working fine at this point. So I start
installing my software/games, ect. Somewhere during this process of
installing software and downloading software my monitor will just turn off.
My system is still running, fans going, but no display. So I reboot. Now
when it gets to the windows loading screen I get a big blue screen. Three
diffrent times, three diffrent errors. They are all close though. Says
something like Error booting: STOP and then some memory address. A short
message saying to reboot and if that doesn't work unisntall new hardware,
and a few other suggestions. One of the errors was like STOP_IRQ_BLAH_BLAH
(2x0000000000 etc) so I tried changing the IRQ ports. I've tryed WinXP
Win2000 and WinLonghorn. Scaned HDD with no errors, took out a stick of ram.
I'm not sure what's causing this, though it always seems to happen while on
the internet. I've played online games (Dark Age of Camelot) with no
problems, but while surffing guru3d.com it happend. And everytime in the end
i'm forced to reinstall windows.

-Justin Marzello

I noticed your MB is an Abit RAID. Does it have the Highpoint 370 controller
on board? If so, the Win XP drivers for it don't work properly. I had some
strange problems when I installed XP, especially loading programs. I
recommend going to Abit's website and downloading the proper drivers for the
controller. Doing so solved my problems. Hope this helps.

Mel Emurian

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