Hello. My roommate recently bought a Motherboard and Video card for use with a P4 2.6 GHz processor I have so we can get rid of an aging Dell that is proving too slow for her and my sister's tastes/uses.
Here are the entire specs:
MB - ASROCK P4i456GV R5.0 with BIOS ver. 3.40 (ACPI compliant)(with ONLY the 20 pin ATX adapter - no 4 pin aux. adapter)
Proc. - P4 2.6 GHz (HT enabled)
Video - AGP 8x EVGA GeForce 6200 512 MB
Optical Drive - HP dvd840 (same one used to burn the disks in the older machine...all is well with it)
Memory snapshots:
1 Gig stick:
512 MB stick (sorry this is hard to read, but it was the best I could do):
PS - 350 Watt ATX Enermax Switching Power Supply
I first encountered the same problem posted here:
viewtopic.php?f=71&t=5399&p=56158&hilit=gfxboot#p56152
...the solution posted there did work, and the boot process did continue...however, every attempt at booting into a Live DVD session ended up FREEZING at the Splash screen, just before the Desktop SHOULD have then been "built". I even "Slept on it", giving it all night, in hopes it would be able to resolve any conflicts, given enough time...no such luck. The spinning Ultimate Edition 2.8 logo just stopped spinning at some point, and went no further.
I tried dialing back to Ultimate Edition 2.7 with the same Freeze at the Splash screen, and THEN all the way back to Ultimate Edition 2.3...same results, same spot....
This will be a dual - boot rig, when I am finished, so I grabbed the custom Windows 7 NVIDIA Edition DVD I have (available here: http://www.rtwincustomize.net/). That didn't even get as far as the Ultimate Edition attempts...giving a message: "CDBOOT: Cannot boot from CD - code: 5"
Can anyone see what the problem might be, here....I would think this should be an adequate mix of hardware to handle BOTH OS's. I'm just STUMPED....
I should also mention that I tried the whole process with JUST the 1Gig Memory stick, and that did no good...both sticks show up at post, and pass the mem test...AND that I even burned a checksum VERIFIED DVD with K3B onto a PRISTINE Blank DVD...to no avail; same exact problem.