New system won't boot windows.

External Since: Jan 16, 2004 Posts: 410

On Sat, 1 May 2004 13:46:22 -0400, "Adelphia" <Bob.DeleteThis@youruncle.net>
wrote:

>If I was to plug my old motherboard back in and get everything nominal on
>the previous settings, how would I go about loading the new settings?

First...once there...use the program given in another post to find
your key...and make a note of it.

>I couldn't just remove all the motherboard drivers and install the new ones
>while it's still on the old one, could I?

Copy the entire CD to your hard drive...in case the drivers don't work
for the cdrom. Then install the drivers as you suggest. You can
check out where the drivers are now...for the controllers, etc. Then
put the new drivers there also.

>Or do I remove the, install the
>new ones, and the settings don't take effect until the next time you boot..
>so I then shut down, flip out the board to the new one and then load with
>the new settings?..

You should need to delete anything. Just boot into the new
mainboard...and hopefully xp will find the board okay this time.

I wouldn't install more peripherals than you absolutely need...until
you get things up and running. Then install all the other junk.

Good luck.

Have a nice week...

Trent©

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External Since: Apr 13, 2004 Posts: 31

When you put in new hardware and leave in old drives the OS is still looking
for the old hardware because the drivers are all there for the old
motherboard and its features as well as any onboard stuff. Without doing
anything to change this information it is even possible to get a Windows
Protection error but in any case it is not surprising that it doesn't finish
booting. If you must have the hard drives exactly as they are at least get
a brand new hdd and make it the primary drive and do a fresh format and OS
install on it. If for any reason you cannot do this then the other option
is what you don't want to do.
"Adelphia" <Bob.RemoveThis@youruncle.net> wrote in message
news:nN6dnR1li9s7HQ_dRVn-iQ@adelphia.com...
> 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
>
>