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Hardware Malfunction?

#1 Thunder

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Posted 22 June 2002 - 11:17 PM

Anyone ever ran across this error installing XP or 2k? This is the same machine I ran 2k on for almost a year, nothing has changed except I had my mobo RMAed. Followed every suggestion in the kb but no help. http://www.kbalertz.com/redir.aspx?kbs=41092

*** Hardware Malfunction
Call your hardware vendor for support
*** The system has halted ***

#2 sapiens74

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Posted 23 June 2002 - 01:53 AM

could be ram, overheating, or not enough juice for the CPU

#3 JP-

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Posted 23 June 2002 - 02:22 AM

Only ever seen that once when i was trying to power a system with too small a psu.

#4 Thunder

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Posted 23 June 2002 - 02:59 AM

I removed or changed every piece of hardware in it trying to trace the problem. Even put in a new 400w PSU. Maybe I was sent a bad mobo?
I should add that it's been running Win98 for a couple weeks without a single problem. 98 sucks when you're used to NT.

Why would 98 run and not NT?

#5 JP-

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Posted 23 June 2002 - 03:42 AM

I had to reinstall windows after the install of the new psu, otherwise it would return the same error on boot. (Many installs failed though with the old psu).