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Boot up not staying put
Sorry but I didn't know where to put this as it isn't a 7 problem and the local forum I have had no replies whatsoever.
Have been given an old XP SP3 machine with an Elite 661FX-M board, 1GB 533Mhz RAM, Celeron 2.4Ghz/256/533 CPU and thought I'd clean it up for anyone who wanted it.
Ran really quite well but a tad on the slow side so I stuck in a 2.8Ghz/1M/800 Pentium 4 and an extra GB RAM.
Now the machine booted and got up to desktop and after a couple of minutes rebooted – same process for a couple of boots and then it went to a screen telling me to set up the BIOS for RAID?
Checked the BIOS (Phoenix) and set the machine to boot order Optical > HDD and left the rest.
Now the same happens after a bit longer booted up even getting to downloading Windows updates but then same thing – powers off.
Have checked the board site and it supports Celeron and Pentium up to 3.2Ghz and 2GBRAM so am at a loss as to why this problem is happening, unless the CPU I have put in is a dud.
So anyone got any advice please on what to check out or perhaps alter in the BIOS or even if I have done something very wrong?
If I shoud have put this in hardware threads - sorry mods