New build Media center woes

[gingerrob]

Right so I have been trying to build myself a Media Center using the following H/w

Elonex Artisan (with Volume control & original MOBO)
Pentium P4 3.0Ghz 630
Corsair Value Select PC3200 1GB Memory
Samsung HD150LJ 500Gb Sata drive
Samsung SH-S202 IDE DVD drive
MSI RX2400PRO-TD256EH

So built this as is and tried to load XP Pro. Got to the screen Windows is Loading Files and then screen goes black unit resets and it all starts again.

Tried a vista Ultimate disc and the same happens except BSOD with a Stop message

"Stop : 0x0000007F (0x00000008, 0x801aa000, 0x00000000,0x00000000)

On advice from here and elsewhere suspected didgy ram so downloaded memtest and ran it twice overnight. No errors found on either test.

Sourced some different RAM. This time PNY PC3200 1Gb and the same happened on bothe XP Pro and Vista.

At this point I have disconnected all headers except the front panel, and still no change.

The stop message on the BSOD says memory or gfx so i tried a different graphics card and unsurprisingly the same thing happens on both XP and Vista.

I have run PCI.exe and this results in the follwowing error;

"ROM PCI IRQ routing table Windows 9x compatibility tests......
Rom IRQ routing table found at F000h:CF30h
Table Version 1.0 - ok
Tanle size 208 bytes - ok
Table checksum B5h - Failed!
IRQs dedicated to PCI : 5,7,10,11,15
The ROM PCI Routing table appears to be faulty!!"

I have also set nearly everything to disabled on the BIOS leaving only USB and Legacy enable for my keybpard and mouse and the Pimary and Secondary IDE channels enabled.

any ideas?

[pam123]

Your motherboard's bios is what's at fault.
Contact Elonex Artisan's Support guys.

[gingerrob]

the bios is the most up to date version avaiolable for the mobo.

I can try to reflash it but am a bit lost as to how to do that without an OS and no floppy drive...

[pam123]

Sorry I can't be more helpful but Elonex doesn't sell on this side of the Atlantic and if you can't reach their support guys by phone or email then pulling the chip and replacing it with a known good one, and a new cmos battery, is a direct and inexpensive solution.

Get the chip from these guys : http://www.badflash.com/ and pick up a battery from a local supplier.