can't get past splash screen in Asus P4P800e deluxe

[morr1s]

I just assembled an asus P4p800e deluxe with pentium 3.2 northwood. When I started it I couldn't get past the splash screen. After letting it sit and changing keyboards back and forth. I finally got in and installed windows xp. It had a lot of crashes and the mouse would stall. I brought it to work today to try and reinstall windows and I can't get past the splash screen again. I had some problems getting the heatsink installed and ended up ripping off the thermal pad and using grease. When I did manage to get in the temperature was about 32C. Any ideas.

[bazooka]

It could be a ram problem.

It could also be a power supply problem.

Your temperature is fine though.

Computers are trial and error.

I had a system that I tried everything i could think of that locked up for about three years and it turned out that it needed a bios upgrade.

[morr1s]

I can't upgrade the bios because I can't get past the splash screen. It the same ram and powersupply I was using in my AMd athalon1800.

I was more concerned because I never did the thermal grease before. Initially I dropped my processor when trying to get it out of the packaging, (on tile not carpeting). I also couldn't get the heatsink on. I initially got it on wrong and had to redo it with the thermal grease. I was concerned with all these problems I may have damaged the processor. When I did get get into my computer the couple times my processor did show and I got windows. Now its just back to the splash screen.

[rallynavvie]

It the same ram and powersupply I was using in my AMd athalon1800.

And it's a 3.2 P4 now? There's your problem

[morr1s]

since I do editing and encoding the forums seemed to lean towards Pentium for those applications. You were right it was a Ram problem.
The PNY ram I was using worked fine in my shuttle motherboard, but it wasn't working in the Asus. Even tho it was technically compatible.

[rallynavvie]

What PSU do you have? You may really want to upgrade that if it's not a branded supply greater than 400W.

[morr1s]

I have a DATAPRO 400 watt powersupply. I borrowed RAM from the network administrator at work and my computer is working great right now. 1 week and no problems. It came out of a Dell ram is pc 2100. My Corsair pc 3200 will be here tomorrow from NewEGG.