--- Raseel Bhagat raseelbhagat@rediffmail.com wrote:

Yes !! That is a very strong possibility of the memory test failing because of it. I remember I had faced a smiilar problem a couple of years ago. But then again, the MoBo in question was very old. The new MoBo usually don't have a problem. Nonetheless, I again advise you to just flip through the MoBo manual. You'll easily locate the jumper sequence for disabling the onboard.

That is almost a sure sign that there is a conflict with the memory mapping of the devices. And even if you have managed to bring up the load, I 'd advise you not to keep using this work around since it JUST MIGHT give you a crash when least expected (read : needed)

Yeah , thats a good idea and was going to be my next suggestion. If you end up solving the problem ANYHOW, do let us know what was causing the problem.

Raseel.

I updated the BIOS with the latest one available and it works fine now. thanks for all your help. And Sherlock, I take the 5th on your assumption about which OS I am trying to boot. :0)

Now just to get a GOOD FAN to cool this Hummer of machines.

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