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New system won't boot windows.
I recently purchaced a new motherboard, memory and processor. I have
replaced these things in other computers of mine before and windows xp had always just accepted it and kept on moving. So this is the scenario: (sorry, it is a bit long, I want to be thorough) I unhooked everything from my old computer, removed the board from the chassis, put the new board in, new memory, new processor, heating system, etc, reattached the cables in the same order (primary master, slave, secondary slave, power to everything, few other things such as a cable going from my front panel audigy to it's PCI card, etc), and loaded. Well, it did load, first try. Came up, I immediately entered bios, checked the system configuration, and it found everything it was supposed to find, it found all of the IDE drive, identified the new memory, and the new ram. So I continued on and let it attempt to boot windows. It passes the "verifying DMI" stage, screen goes blank (usually this is when it loads the windows splash screen, I'm pretty sure), and then the computer resets. I repeated this procedure about 15 times to make sure it was reoccuring. I also attempted to boot into the three versions of safemode, all of which amount to the same effect as loading windows.. resetting. Did switching motherboards on windows some how move windows entry point or something similar? Anyone know a fix, besides running the "repair" on the windows CD which re-installs windows (I know it leaves all of the data on the disk and just rewrites files, and then reruns setup, but there are multiple reasons I would rather not do that). Thanks for reading, I know it was a long post, looking forward to any help I can get. ~Chris Martin |
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http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000474.htm
"Adelphia" wrote in message ... I recently purchaced a new motherboard, memory and processor. I have replaced these things in other computers of mine before and windows xp had always just accepted it and kept on moving. So this is the scenario: (sorry, it is a bit long, I want to be thorough) I unhooked everything from my old computer, removed the board from the chassis, put the new board in, new memory, new processor, heating system, etc, reattached the cables in the same order (primary master, slave, secondary slave, power to everything, few other things such as a cable going from my front panel audigy to it's PCI card, etc), and loaded. Well, it did load, first try. Came up, I immediately entered bios, checked the system configuration, and it found everything it was supposed to find, it found all of the IDE drive, identified the new memory, and the new ram. So I continued on and let it attempt to boot windows. It passes the "verifying DMI" stage, screen goes blank (usually this is when it loads the windows splash screen, I'm pretty sure), and then the computer resets. I repeated this procedure about 15 times to make sure it was reoccuring. I also attempted to boot into the three versions of safemode, all of which amount to the same effect as loading windows.. resetting. Did switching motherboards on windows some how move windows entry point or something similar? Anyone know a fix, besides running the "repair" on the windows CD which re-installs windows (I know it leaves all of the data on the disk and just rewrites files, and then reruns setup, but there are multiple reasons I would rather not do that). Thanks for reading, I know it was a long post, looking forward to any help I can get. ~Chris Martin |
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Your problem revolves around the motherboard drivers for the
new board, which aren't there, while the old ones still are. At this point you either do a repair or put the old board back in and then delete all the the device drivers for the old mobo. "Adelphia" wrote in message ... I recently purchaced a new motherboard, memory and processor. I have replaced these things in other computers of mine before and windows xp had always just accepted it and kept on moving. So this is the scenario: (sorry, it is a bit long, I want to be thorough) I unhooked everything from my old computer, removed the board from the chassis, put the new board in, new memory, new processor, heating system, etc, reattached the cables in the same order (primary master, slave, secondary slave, power to everything, few other things such as a cable going from my front panel audigy to it's PCI card, etc), and loaded. Well, it did load, first try. Came up, I immediately entered bios, checked the system configuration, and it found everything it was supposed to find, it found all of the IDE drive, identified the new memory, and the new ram. So I continued on and let it attempt to boot windows. It passes the "verifying DMI" stage, screen goes blank (usually this is when it loads the windows splash screen, I'm pretty sure), and then the computer resets. I repeated this procedure about 15 times to make sure it was reoccuring. I also attempted to boot into the three versions of safemode, all of which amount to the same effect as loading windows.. resetting. Did switching motherboards on windows some how move windows entry point or something similar? Anyone know a fix, besides running the "repair" on the windows CD which re-installs windows (I know it leaves all of the data on the disk and just rewrites files, and then reruns setup, but there are multiple reasons I would rather not do that). Thanks for reading, I know it was a long post, looking forward to any help I can get. ~Chris Martin |
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Adelphia wrote:
I recently purchaced a new motherboard, memory and processor. I have replaced these things in other computers of mine before and windows xp had always just accepted it and kept on moving. So this is the scenario: (sorry, it is a bit long, I want to be thorough) I unhooked everything from my old computer, removed the board from the chassis, put the new board in, new memory, new processor, heating system, etc, reattached the cables in the same order (primary master, slave, secondary slave, power to everything, few other things such as a cable going from my front panel audigy to it's PCI card, etc), and loaded. Well, it did load, first try. Came up, I immediately entered bios, checked the system configuration, and it found everything it was supposed to find, it found all of the IDE drive, identified the new memory, and the new ram. So I continued on and let it attempt to boot windows. It passes the "verifying DMI" stage, screen goes blank (usually this is when it loads the windows splash screen, I'm pretty sure), and then the computer resets. I repeated this procedure about 15 times to make sure it was reoccuring. I also attempted to boot into the three versions of safemode, all of which amount to the same effect as loading windows.. resetting. Did switching motherboards on windows some how move windows entry point or something similar? Anyone know a fix, besides running the "repair" on the windows CD which re-installs windows (I know it leaves all of the data on the disk and just rewrites files, and then reruns setup, but there are multiple reasons I would rather not do that). Thanks for reading, I know it was a long post, looking forward to any help I can get. ~Chris Martin Why don't you want to run a repair? That's the easiest way of fixing this. |
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If you change the motherboard in a Windows XP system then you MUST reformat
the harddrive and do a fresh install of XP, otherwise you get ongoing nasty Registry errors as you have found out. -- DaveW "Adelphia" wrote in message ... I recently purchaced a new motherboard, memory and processor. I have replaced these things in other computers of mine before and windows xp had always just accepted it and kept on moving. So this is the scenario: (sorry, it is a bit long, I want to be thorough) I unhooked everything from my old computer, removed the board from the chassis, put the new board in, new memory, new processor, heating system, etc, reattached the cables in the same order (primary master, slave, secondary slave, power to everything, few other things such as a cable going from my front panel audigy to it's PCI card, etc), and loaded. Well, it did load, first try. Came up, I immediately entered bios, checked the system configuration, and it found everything it was supposed to find, it found all of the IDE drive, identified the new memory, and the new ram. So I continued on and let it attempt to boot windows. It passes the "verifying DMI" stage, screen goes blank (usually this is when it loads the windows splash screen, I'm pretty sure), and then the computer resets. I repeated this procedure about 15 times to make sure it was reoccuring. I also attempted to boot into the three versions of safemode, all of which amount to the same effect as loading windows.. resetting. Did switching motherboards on windows some how move windows entry point or something similar? Anyone know a fix, besides running the "repair" on the windows CD which re-installs windows (I know it leaves all of the data on the disk and just rewrites files, and then reruns setup, but there are multiple reasons I would rather not do that). Thanks for reading, I know it was a long post, looking forward to any help I can get. ~Chris Martin |
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Adelphia wrote:
I recently purchaced a new motherboard, memory and processor. I have replaced these things in other computers of mine before and windows xp had always just accepted it and kept on moving. So this is the scenario: (sorry, it is a bit long, I want to be thorough) snipped - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - Thanks for reading, I know it was a long post, looking forward to any help I can get. ~Chris Martin Now would be a GREAT time to try a LiveCD of Knoppix, that boots from the CD, runs in RAM! See if it can find all your new resources! It also will confirm that your new system is AOK! (I will be checking back, to see if you encountered any error messages). http://knopper.net/knoppix |
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"The Prophecy" wrote in message
news:iqwkc.305641$Pk3.77001@pd7tw1no... Adelphia wrote: I recently purchaced a new motherboard, memory and processor. I have replaced these things in other computers of mine before and windows xp had always just accepted it and kept on moving. So this is the scenario: (sorry, it is a bit long, I want to be thorough) I unhooked everything from my old computer, removed the board from the chassis, put the new board in, new memory, new processor, heating system, etc, reattached the cables in the same order (primary master, slave, secondary slave, power to everything, few other things such as a cable going from my front panel audigy to it's PCI card, etc), and loaded. Well, it did load, first try. Came up, I immediately entered bios, checked the system configuration, and it found everything it was supposed to find, it found all of the IDE drive, identified the new memory, and the new ram. So I continued on and let it attempt to boot windows. It passes the "verifying DMI" stage, screen goes blank (usually this is when it loads the windows splash screen, I'm pretty sure), and then the computer resets. I repeated this procedure about 15 times to make sure it was reoccuring. I also attempted to boot into the three versions of safemode, all of which amount to the same effect as loading windows.. resetting. Did switching motherboards on windows some how move windows entry point or something similar? Anyone know a fix, besides running the "repair" on the windows CD which re-installs windows (I know it leaves all of the data on the disk and just rewrites files, and then reruns setup, but there are multiple reasons I would rather not do that). Thanks for reading, I know it was a long post, looking forward to any help I can get. ~Chris Martin Why don't you want to run a repair? That's the easiest way of fixing this. Two main reasons - I no longer have my windows key, and I have absolutely no idea what my admin password was.. it requires it to do the "repair". |
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"Larry Fine" wrote in message
news:xnvkc.3798$kh4.245001@attbi_s52... http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000474.htm "Adelphia" wrote in message ... I recently purchaced a new motherboard, memory and processor. I have replaced these things in other computers of mine before and windows xp had always just accepted it and kept on moving. So this is the scenario: (sorry, it is a bit long, I want to be thorough) I unhooked everything from my old computer, removed the board from the chassis, put the new board in, new memory, new processor, heating system, etc, reattached the cables in the same order (primary master, slave, secondary slave, power to everything, few other things such as a cable going from my front panel audigy to it's PCI card, etc), and loaded. Well, it did load, first try. Came up, I immediately entered bios, checked the system configuration, and it found everything it was supposed to find, it found all of the IDE drive, identified the new memory, and the new ram. So I continued on and let it attempt to boot windows. It passes the "verifying DMI" stage, screen goes blank (usually this is when it loads the windows splash screen, I'm pretty sure), and then the computer resets. I repeated this procedure about 15 times to make sure it was reoccuring. I also attempted to boot into the three versions of safemode, all of which amount to the same effect as loading windows.. resetting. Did switching motherboards on windows some how move windows entry point or something similar? Anyone know a fix, besides running the "repair" on the windows CD which re-installs windows (I know it leaves all of the data on the disk and just rewrites files, and then reruns setup, but there are multiple reasons I would rather not do that). Thanks for reading, I know it was a long post, looking forward to any help I can get. ~Chris Martin Having problems with a boot disk. I used another computer to make a boot disk.. it was a windows xp home computer, but the OS on the computer I'm trying to boot is a windows xp pro.. would the boot disk be a problem? The computer won't boot fromt he disk, it just gives an invalid disk error when it attempts to read it. Ideas? ~Chris |
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Adelphia wrote:
Why don't you want to run a repair? That's the easiest way of fixing this. Two main reasons - I no longer have my windows key, and I have absolutely no idea what my admin password was.. it requires it to do the "repair". Download keyfinder from: http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml it will tell you your windows key. Take care, John. |
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Bioboffin wrote:
Two main reasons - I no longer have my windows key, and I have absolutely no idea what my admin password was.. it requires it to do the "repair". Download keyfinder from: http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml it will tell you your windows key. Sorry - on re-reading I see than you cannot boot into windows, which is, of course necessary to use keyfinder. John. |
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