I recently upgraded my motherboard, CPU and memory, but afterwards I cannot boot up. I tried a re-install too but still didn't work.

When it was trying to boot it seemed to get to the black Windows screen briefly before giving me the 'blue screen of death'. I tried a new Windows install with a CD, all seemed fine until 'starting Windows' appeared in the actions at the bottom left, and I got 'blue screen' again.

I just upgraded to:

ASUS P5QL-E Intel P43 (motherboard)
Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 2.66 1066FSB
GeIL 4MB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C4 800Mhz Black Dragon EVO ONE DDR2 Dual Channel kit.

I had an existing 500GB Sata HDD, the only thing I've changed on this is removed the jumper to allow 3g/b data transfer as my old MOBO could only handle 1.5.

I have a Creative Fata1ty X-fi soundcard and Radeon 512MB X1900XT PCIe graphics card in too, and a SATA DVDRW.

It's not giving me a lot of info on the blue screen as to what to try - my knowledge of setting up sata isn't good to be honest, I did change the drive from IDE to ACHI (or something similar) in the BIOS and one or two other small things, because when I tried the first boot up I didnt go into the BIOS and in the post messages it ended with FATAL ERROR - CHASSIS INTRUDED, SYSTEM ENDED or something as alarming (with two short POST beeps as well - non recurring). I restarted as couldn't see anything wrong, my monitor was POWERED up this time so I got into BIOS and changed a couple of things.

Does anyone have any ideas what to test or change? I'm sure you'll have a question or two as well, please fire away!

Thanks in advance.

(By the way have XP SP2 o/s.)

First things first.
Since you changed hardware in that machine chances are good that your install of XP will not boot properly...it's LOOKING for all the old devices.
The changes you made should be reversed if you are attempting to retrieve your data.
Move the jumper back where it was on the SATA HDD...also enter setup and change the drive settings back to IDE.
While in setup look for the chassis intrusion alarm and turn it off. This usually isn't needed in a home enviornment.

Hook up the drive in another machine on the SATA2 port on the MBoard. You should now be able to boot that machine and see your drive as the D: drive in Windows Explorer. Copy the data you need from it and you can burn it to CD/DVD later.

Re-install the SATA HDD in your machine and follow these instructions for a Clean Install of XP.

NOTE: Have your new MBoard CD handy as you will need it for the SATA/RAID driver prompt which will come up very early in the XP install at the bottom of the screen...it will say "Press F6 to install SATA drivers" then insert the driver CD so XP can install the SATA drivers.
After setup finishes run the setup on the MBoard driver CD to install your MBoard drivers.
Then continue on with any other drivers such as video; SOUND etc.

Good Luck and let us know if you have any questions.Hi, I've tried replacing the HDD in my old setup, and it seems to be working fine, it's only a couple of monhs old itself (Seagate Barracuda 7200.11). I don't need any data from it, that's been done.

I then tried it back in my new system with minimum build, but it's just the same - it seems to be as soon as Windows actually tries loading it crashes, now I know virtually nothing about software but I think it's a software/hardware conflict, I thin Windows just doesn't like something I've changed!

I have an original XP SP2 install CD which I have used a few times before, always with no problems. I don't have a floppy drive or any other disks that were mentioned on the clean install link. Normally it just loads up, boots from CD (after I amend the priorities to do so) and asks about partitions and file systems. But I can't get to this stage. Would it help if I deleted the existing partition using my old system, then try a fresh install with it in the new system I wonder? (sorry, I keep having to pop to internet cafe to check this site!)

I will change the drive settings back to IDE (does it need an IDE cable though? Or is it ok to leave SATA?) and I have tried replacing the jumper already. I haven't seen a chassis intrusion alarm that I can remember in BIOS but will have an in depth look now.

I was also wondering (though this might be a question for the software forum) if it's because I need a better Windows version - x64 XP or Vista to help with hardware compatibility?

The new Football Manager 09 is out tomorrow, I need it working before then lol!

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First things first.
Since you changed hardware in that machine chances are good that your install of XP will not boot properly...it's looking for all the old devices.