abit sg-71 motherboard and intel 2.6ghz processor

i just replaced my old motherboard and processor. in my first attempt
to boot my comp i went into the bios to see if my periphirals were all
recognized and they were. i continued the boot sequence and it just
stops and ask if i want to boot normal, safe, or last good boot.
under normal it loops through above sequence. under safe mode it
scrolls multi(0)disk(0)partition(1)window\sysytem32 followed by
several different files. I tried to boot to the cdrom that came with
the mother board unsucessfully. for some reason although i get the
hard drive lite, i don't think it's being accessed. any help would be
appreciated. i've installed 256 mb of dimm memory and the board has
onboard video,lan, and sound. thanks for your help.

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i just replaced my old motherboard and processor. in my first attempt
to boot my comp i went into the bios to see if my periphirals were all
recognized and they were. i continued the boot sequence and it just
stops and ask if i want to boot normal, safe, or last good boot.
under normal it loops through above sequence. under safe mode it
scrolls multi(0)disk(0)partition(1)window\sysytem32 followed by
several different files. I tried to boot to the cdrom that came with
the mother board unsucessfully. for some reason although i get the
hard drive lite, i don't think it's being accessed. any help would be
appreciated. i've installed 256 mb of dimm memory and the board has
onboard video,lan, and sound. thanks for your help.

the problem was i had not reloaded my operating system. i did'nt think
to do so because i used the same hard drive. anyway after booting to
the op system cdrom everything works as advertised.