Windows xp does not continue to start up

If the software appears to be hanging and then rebooting you most likely have bad capacitors on the motherboard. This is a pretty old board and the caps tend to dry out and this is a typical behavior. If there is a brief blue screen before it reboots I'd say just re-install windows. Also be sure to get SP3 and all the security updates. Your leaving yourself open for attack.

Hello the home page is here:

http://www.asrock.com/MB/overview.asp?cat=Download&Model=K8Upgrade-VM800

You are running windows xp and you need at least sevice pack 3
from windows update.

When installed the system should now be able to see large harddrives

FAT32 supports up to 2 TeraBytes.

Hello,

Here is the page to get drivers for your mainboard:

http://www.asrock.com/MB/download.asp?Model=M266A&o=All

Thanks for using Fixya.

Sir,
you are required to follow these steps below.

1 turn on your computer with HDD in it
2 Enter in to the BIOS by pressing F2 button
3 there entering in BIOS look for "Drive Configuration" it might be writen in some other words
4 there you will find ..."Hard drive SMART capacity" as enabled in box above.
5 Enter that box and Disable it.
6 Push F10 and reboot the machien.

Now you will be able to format , install etc on your hard drive hopefully

If your hdd is sata and you have an old mobo , windows xp (onlycvista will) will not recognize it. Integrate sata in xp (use nliteand goolgle how to) or use the flloopy disk to run sata driver

On XP computer install your seagate barracuda 400g. start the computer. when xp is already boot right click My Computer then select manage. When Computer Management dialog box appear click disk management. Look for the drive that is unallocated and format the drive and follow the instructions.

Go to Windows Explorer Right click C:\ go to properties / Tools / click Error check new box pops up tick small box to fix errors and reboot. On reboot windows will scan disk and fix any errors in system files then restart.
If windows restarts OK problem solved If not
Boot from windows CD and after all drivers loaded windows will ask what you want t do 0Install Repair etc" press the R key for repair and follow instructions from there
Warning until window finishes installing do NOT press any keys when it reboots

Hi,

An ASRock K7VM3.motherboard is a socket A (462) board specifically for the AMD processors. To my experience, these boards (due to age and period of usage) are prone to:

• bulging/leaky capacitors of the high current regulators near the CPU;
• the heatsink tends to be dislodged/misaligned causing overheated processor;
• loose memory slots causing defective memories.

Hope this be of initial help/idea. Pls post back how things turned up or should you need additional information.

Good luck and kind regards. Thank you for using FixYa.

Hello there.

From your description is sounds like the new Memory is either faulty, or not compatible with your sytem, this explains the error messages and blue screens.

What i would suggest is to download a free program called 'memtest' that you can burn to cd and let your computer load it up before it loads Windows, this will check the memory for any errors and verify that indeed the memory is faulty.

You can find memtest here

Please try this and let us know what happens. If you only purchased the memory then you can get it replaced for free.

Hope this helps.

According to the product website your board supports all intel socket 478 cpu's. Maybe you bought a faulty cpu ?
M266A

1. Socket 478 for Intel® P4 processor
2. VIA® P4M266A chipset

• FSB 533MHz
• Supports Hyper-Threading Technology
• Hybrid Booster - a safe overclocking feature
• 2xDDR 266/200
• Integrated ProSavage8 3D Graphic

Socket 478, Intel® Pentium 4 / Celeron
- FSB 533/400MHz