hey all,
just joined this site, i was facing the BSOD on a new install. because i have not ever built a computer from scratch this was my first one. thought i knew what to do, guess not. At any rate, i dont know all the parameters of this machine, but soon as i get it booted up i will post them here for you all to see.
I was facing the BSOD on a linux install, thought first it was my disks corrupted, then i tried several different distros, still no go. didnt want windows on the new machine, but succumbed to trying to install it. BSOD great, then i blamed it on my maxtor hard drive, just becuase i have had bad luck with maxtor, went and bought a new seagate hdd. installed it, BSOD. man i was furious. Searched the almighty google for the IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error found this site, upon reading a few of the posts, i noticed it said something about badly timed RAM, and also seen it mentioned secondary cd or dvd roms. I disconnected the machine, pulled the wires from my DVD drive leaving only the cdrom connected, pulled the wires from my zip drive. noticed the ram was placed in bank 1 and bank 3, yes i done that, didnt think it made a difference. so i placed the 256 DDR sticks in banks 1 and banks 2. plugged her back up and she is now installing. So as to say exactly what it was that resolved the issue i dont know, as i probably had more than one issue causing the BSOD, so i went to the basics of the install, just my primary needs, vid card, cdrom, floppy. and of course setting the ram in sequential banks.
so i just wanted to thank all who have posted here, now i am going to uninstall windows, and try RH again now that i see i can install the OS.
later all
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