INTEL i5 760
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3
Gskill 2X2GB F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL
EVGA 512-P3-N871-AR GeForce 9800 GTX+ Video Card
Ultra LSP650 650-Watt Power Supply
Windows XP 32 bit
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD6400AAKS 640GB SATA
LITE-ON SATA DVD Writer
Canon photo printer and scanner
Built system 5 weeks ago with intention to load Windows 7 Professional 64 bit up-grade. Started with blank hard drive, installed Windows XP with service pack 2. Was told by Microsoft that I had to do this because I was upgrading, is this true? I got a special deal because I am a college student. Was able to load Windows 7 but it took some work. After installing windows 7, my system was unstable, got BSOD many times. I never got a good look at error codes because they flashed quickly or system would crash when it was idle and no one was using it. I flashed bios to F9. I tested both memory sticks and slots 1 and 3 with no issues. Installed latest drivers for MOB, printer, scanner and video card. Started to have booting issues. Reinstalled operating system several times to try to get system stable and to boot. Finally decided to just install windows xp and see what happens. Been using XP for 3 weeks with no issues other than Microsoft explorer locking up every once in a while. Would really like to upgrade to windows 7, but I am tired of fitting this build and I really don?t know what to try next. Does anyone have any advice?
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3
Gskill 2X2GB F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL
EVGA 512-P3-N871-AR GeForce 9800 GTX+ Video Card
Ultra LSP650 650-Watt Power Supply
Windows XP 32 bit
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD6400AAKS 640GB SATA
LITE-ON SATA DVD Writer
Canon photo printer and scanner
Built system 5 weeks ago with intention to load Windows 7 Professional 64 bit up-grade. Started with blank hard drive, installed Windows XP with service pack 2. Was told by Microsoft that I had to do this because I was upgrading, is this true? I got a special deal because I am a college student. Was able to load Windows 7 but it took some work. After installing windows 7, my system was unstable, got BSOD many times. I never got a good look at error codes because they flashed quickly or system would crash when it was idle and no one was using it. I flashed bios to F9. I tested both memory sticks and slots 1 and 3 with no issues. Installed latest drivers for MOB, printer, scanner and video card. Started to have booting issues. Reinstalled operating system several times to try to get system stable and to boot. Finally decided to just install windows xp and see what happens. Been using XP for 3 weeks with no issues other than Microsoft explorer locking up every once in a while. Would really like to upgrade to windows 7, but I am tired of fitting this build and I really don?t know what to try next. Does anyone have any advice?
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