new motherboard and graphics

new motherboard and graphics, yet now windows will not start up just resets
and goes to a screen saying that new hardware maybe causing the problem any
ideas?? do i need to reformat the hard disk or repair windows?

"Squibbly2" wrote:

new motherboard and graphics, yet now windows will not start up
just resets and goes to a screen saying that new hardware maybe
causing the problem any ideas?? do i need to reformat the hard
disk or repair windows?

Lots of ideas. I get the impression you swapped the mainboard out
from under Windows. Windows XP might be good at it, Windows
Millennium maybe coped okay, but I would still reinstall Windows
when replacing my mainboard. You do have backups of any important
data?

reset the cmos first

"Squibbly2" wrote in message
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new motherboard and graphics, yet now windows will not start up just
resets and goes to a screen saying that new hardware maybe causing the
problem any ideas?? do i need to reformat the hard disk or repair windows?

reset the cmos?? no way new motherboard mate no way

"JAD" wrote in message
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reset the cmos first

"Squibbly2" wrote in message
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new motherboard and graphics, yet now windows will not start up just
resets and goes to a screen saying that new hardware maybe causing the
problem any ideas?? do i need to reformat the hard disk or repair
windows?

most of my important stuff are on a different partition so i wont miss
anything


"John Doe" wrote in message
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"Squibbly2" wrote:

new motherboard and graphics, yet now windows will not start up
just resets and goes to a screen saying that new hardware maybe
causing the problem any ideas?? do i need to reformat the hard
disk or repair windows?

Lots of ideas. I get the impression you swapped the mainboard out
from under Windows. Windows XP might be good at it, Windows
Millennium maybe coped okay, but I would still reinstall Windows
when replacing my mainboard. You do have backups of any important
data?

heheheh um your way to paranoid there bud. Are you confusing "BIOS FLASH"
for CMOS reset?

"Squibbly2" wrote in message
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reset the cmos?? no way new motherboard mate no way

"JAD" wrote in message
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reset the cmos first

"Squibbly2" wrote in message
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new motherboard and graphics, yet now windows will not start up just
resets and goes to a screen saying that new hardware maybe causing the
problem any ideas?? do i need to reformat the hard disk or repair
windows?

You need to keep important data backed up on another physical media.


"Squibbly2" wrote:

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most of my important stuff are on a different partition so i wont miss
anything


"John Doe" wrote in message
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"Squibbly2" wrote:

new motherboard and graphics, yet now windows will not start up
just resets and goes to a screen saying that new hardware maybe
causing the problem any ideas?? do i need to reformat the hard
disk or repair windows?

Lots of ideas. I get the impression you swapped the mainboard out
from under Windows. Windows XP might be good at it, Windows
Millennium maybe coped okay, but I would still reinstall Windows
when replacing my mainboard. You do have backups of any important
data?

Whenever you change the motherboard in an XP OS computer system, you MUST
reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise you will
have problems such as you discovered.

--
DaveW



"Squibbly2" wrote in message
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new motherboard and graphics, yet now windows will not start up just
resets and goes to a screen saying that new hardware maybe causing the
problem any ideas?? do i need to reformat the hard disk or repair windows?

"DaveW" wrote in message
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Whenever you change the motherboard in an XP OS computer system, you MUST
reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise you
will have problems such as you discovered.

--
DaveW



"Squibbly2" wrote in message
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new motherboard and graphics, yet now windows will not start up just
resets and goes to a screen saying that new hardware maybe causing the
problem any ideas?? do i need to reformat the hard disk or repair
windows?




not quite so fast there my friend. a repair install of XP MAY and I dare
say MAY fix the problema after the repair and installing the mobo drivers.
But, in a perfect world, with all data backed up, WTF, reformat and install.
Why not do it?

But, I did take XP and move it from an intel platform to an AMD platform
with only reinstalling the mobo drivers, video, and modem. Your mileage may
vary.

S

P.S. - you knew this already, right john?????



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so many jackasses, so little ammo

My experience is similar to Dave's. A new mobo almost always requires a
re-install of Windows or instability occurs.


"DaveW" wrote in message
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Whenever you change the motherboard in an XP OS computer system, you MUST
reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise you
will have problems such as you discovered.

--
DaveW



"Squibbly2" wrote in message
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new motherboard and graphics, yet now windows will not start up just
resets and goes to a screen saying that new hardware maybe causing the
problem any ideas?? do i need to reformat the hard disk or repair
windows?