Alright, so I'm a little embarrassed by this, but I'm nearly at wits end.

My TROUBLES started when my onboard graphics card failed. I planned on buying a new PCI-E video card to take its place, but I was limited by my foolish purchase of a "slim" style case. None of the low-profile video cards really caught my eye, so I decided to get a whole new midsized case and eliminate the need for it. Long story short, I ended up having to buy a whole new motherboard, CPU, video card and power source along with it. So I finally get all my hardware physically set up, but now I can't get any further than the BIOS and an endless loop of "Status Repair" and resetting.

I'm pretty sure that the issue is all the new hardware with no new drivers to go with it, but I can't get to any mode (if you will) where I can boot the disks or download updates. I tried entering safe mode, disabling restart on error, changing the boot order to CD-ROM, and none of it has worked.

Here's my RECENT purchases; I bought all of these from newegg.com with a very limited knowledge of computer hardware, so no making fun if they're outdated.


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Intel Celeron E3300 Wolfdale 2.5GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80571E3300
 
Antec BP550 Plus 550W Continuous Power ATX12V V2.2 Modular Active PFC Power Supply
 
SAPPHIRE 100296HDMI Radeon HD 4670 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
 
GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

That's my only option?
Thank you then, I'll give it a try.

I'd go for a repair install first- you should lose any of your data if you do it properly.