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HELP! System keeps rebooting
Hi,
I just put in a new mobo and cpu in my system. I'll give the specs below. When I boot up, it POSTs, properly detects my hard drives and cd-roms and then it goes to a prompt that tells me Windows did not properly load on the previous attempt. It asks me to select from normally starting Windows, or Safe Mode, or Safe Mode with Command Prompt or Safe Mood with Network Support. No matter which I select, the systems just reboots and we repeat this process over and over. What can be the problem? I have tried: 1. unhooking all IDE devices but my primary hard drive 2. putting the primary HD jumper to Master, Cable Select and none 3. using a different IDE cable My systems specs a Gigabyte mobo, GA-81k1100 P4 2.8 w/hyper threading 1 gig of memory (PC2700) installed in two channels WD Caviar 80 GB HD - master WD 40 GB HD - slave FDD Sony DVD burner Sony cd-rom Windows XP Professional Zoom 56K modem ATI Radeon 9200 128 mg video card I would appreciate any suggestions to get this baby up and running again! Thanks!! Sally |
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Hi Sally,
Whenever you install a new motherboard, you have to either run a repair installation of Windows XP or better yet, format your OS partition and clean-install the operating system from scratch. There are just too many registry settings created when installing an operating system on particular hardware that will no longer be valid with a different chipset, CPU, other onboard chips, etc. that come with a new motherboard/CPU upgrade. Also, you have the 875P chipset and a CPU that supports an 800 MHz front side bus, but that PC2700 memory will limit you to a lower 533 MHz front side bus speed. Make sure that your BIOS bus speeds for CPU and memory are set for 133 (quad-pumped to 533) and not 200 (quad-pumped to 800). Hope this helps, Russell http://tastycomputers.com "juzuz" wrote in message link.net... Hi, I just put in a new mobo and cpu in my system. I'll give the specs below. When I boot up, it POSTs, properly detects my hard drives and cd-roms and then it goes to a prompt that tells me Windows did not properly load on the previous attempt. It asks me to select from normally starting Windows, or Safe Mode, or Safe Mode with Command Prompt or Safe Mood with Network Support. No matter which I select, the systems just reboots and we repeat this process over and over. What can be the problem? I have tried: 1. unhooking all IDE devices but my primary hard drive 2. putting the primary HD jumper to Master, Cable Select and none 3. using a different IDE cable My systems specs a Gigabyte mobo, GA-81k1100 P4 2.8 w/hyper threading 1 gig of memory (PC2700) installed in two channels WD Caviar 80 GB HD - master WD 40 GB HD - slave FDD Sony DVD burner Sony cd-rom Windows XP Professional Zoom 56K modem ATI Radeon 9200 128 mg video card I would appreciate any suggestions to get this baby up and running again! Thanks!! Sally |
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Russell,
Where would I go about making this change in the BIOS? Thanks for your input, Sally "Russell" rsullivan@tastycomputersdotcom_replacedotwith "." wrote in message news:uCobc.165133$Cb.1658678@attbi_s51... Hi Sally, Whenever you install a new motherboard, you have to either run a repair installation of Windows XP or better yet, format your OS partition and clean-install the operating system from scratch. There are just too many registry settings created when installing an operating system on particular hardware that will no longer be valid with a different chipset, CPU, other onboard chips, etc. that come with a new motherboard/CPU upgrade. Also, you have the 875P chipset and a CPU that supports an 800 MHz front side bus, but that PC2700 memory will limit you to a lower 533 MHz front side bus speed. Make sure that your BIOS bus speeds for CPU and memory are set for 133 (quad-pumped to 533) and not 200 (quad-pumped to 800). Hope this helps, Russell |
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Did you remember to reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of Windows
after changing the motherboard? Otherwise you get nasty ongoing Registry errors. -- DaveW "juzuz" wrote in message link.net... Hi, I just put in a new mobo and cpu in my system. I'll give the specs below. When I boot up, it POSTs, properly detects my hard drives and cd-roms and then it goes to a prompt that tells me Windows did not properly load on the previous attempt. It asks me to select from normally starting Windows, or Safe Mode, or Safe Mode with Command Prompt or Safe Mood with Network Support. No matter which I select, the systems just reboots and we repeat this process over and over. What can be the problem? I have tried: 1. unhooking all IDE devices but my primary hard drive 2. putting the primary HD jumper to Master, Cable Select and none 3. using a different IDE cable My systems specs a Gigabyte mobo, GA-81k1100 P4 2.8 w/hyper threading 1 gig of memory (PC2700) installed in two channels WD Caviar 80 GB HD - master WD 40 GB HD - slave FDD Sony DVD burner Sony cd-rom Windows XP Professional Zoom 56K modem ATI Radeon 9200 128 mg video card I would appreciate any suggestions to get this baby up and running again! Thanks!! Sally |
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Dave,
I put in my Window's CD, selected to do a new installation, it loads the necessary files and then, it reboots and we go through the same process. I'm really open for suggestions on what is wrong here! Thanks Sally "DaveW" wrote in message news:wZIbc.67624$K91.157530@attbi_s02... Did you remember to reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of Windows after changing the motherboard? Otherwise you get nasty ongoing Registry errors. -- DaveW |
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