Azza U815EPC - Win XP SP2

[iluminatus]

Greetings to All,

My computer has a Azza U815PC mainboard. I have tried all
kind of acrobatics to install WinXP, but I can not manage to
pass to the next "level", because Bill Gates' monster is allowing
to move further, than a blue screen.

My question is:
Can that be solved by updating the bios?
Where do I get the exact bios updates from?

I checked almost every corner on the net- but besides being
re-directed to websites with no connection to the manufacturer
and to tech. companies, which charge for an update- nothing so
far.

Here is the bios profile:


BIOS Date : 12/03/01
BIOS Type : Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
BIOS ID : 12/03/2001-i815EP-W83627-6A69RP8QC
OEM Sign-On : 12/03/2001 U815EPC FOR U815EPC (Y2K READY)
Chipset : Intel 1130 rev 4 (i815EP-W83627 //Intel 815E Solano)
I/O Controller : 82801BA (ICH2)
Memory Controller: 82815EG/ 82815EP
Superio : Winbond 627F/HF rev 7 found at port 2Eh
OS : Win98
CPU : Pentium® III (0.18 µm) With 256 KB On-Die L2 Cache 803 MHz
Bus : ISA/PCI

BIOS ROM In Socket: Unknown
BIOS ROM Size: Unknown
Memory Installed: 447 MB
Memory Maximum: Unknown
ACPI Revision: 1.0

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Please send an email if you can help: ahun@email.com

[Denniss]

What'S displayed on the blue screen ?
Any error messages during installation ?

I'm not an XP expert but you should try to force an APM install (non ACPI installation, most problems with XP are with faulty ACPI-implementations in Bios)

[iluminatus]

Hi Denniss,
thanks for the interest in my problem.
The blue screen appears, indicating to hit F6 to add any of
my own drivers, than it is loading all the required files and
drivers and it freezes when preparing to reboot for install.

I have checked so many sites and I came to the conclusion,
that it might be the bios, which might not recognize any
large storage. Anyway it seems, their is no bios-update for my
motherboard out there?!

If you have a simple step by step solution (I am not an expert),
I would appreciate it. Thanks.

Regards

[edwin]

803MHz is a strange number, is this thing overclocked? 447MB is a strnage amount too, is this because of onboard video or is this a mix-n-match of memory sticks? XP is much more stringent on the memory so I would test your memory sticks one by one with memtest86 first.