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Answer» HI I have upgraded my own and friends PCs on several occasions in the past and generally with no major problems. That is until now. I have just purchased a new mobo cpu ram and cooler package. They are: Biostar GF7050-m2 mainboard AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+ skt-am2 cpu 4GB DDR2 800MHz non registered unbuffered Ram (2x2gb sticks) Spire skt-am2 heatsink and fan The old system was working fine, but i FELT the need to UPGRADE (as you do). The hard drive is a Maxtor 320gb diamond max32 IDE, which i have been using for two years with no probs. And I have a Phillips DVDR drive. When I decided to upgrade I realised I would also need a new PSU with a 24 pin ATX connector . So I also bought a new 600w PSU as well. I replaced the CPU and took out the old board replacing it with the new one. All components were pre fitted to the board except the cooler. Having fitted this i then put the new board in the case connected all the case LEADS and the floppy and IDE cables. Moment of truth, I fired the machine up and it started first time and ran through its start up. This was the good news, bad news it then went to the "F8" screen GIVING me the option to start normally , safe mode, last known good configuration etc screen. I chose start normally and it immediately restarted and went back to the same screen. It does this no matter which option I choose. Does anyone have any idea how i can get over this. By the way the operating system on the HDD is XP professional SP2 Many thanks in anticipation Let me get this right. You replaced motherboard, cpu & RAM with different hardware and you are trying to boot your old installation of Windows that was on the HDD from before? If that is what you are saying, it won't work. Too much new hardware. When you install Windows on a computer from the Microsoft CD-ROM, it identifies the hardware and installs the right drivers, sets the right registry values, etc, etc. If you later change a minor thing, such as a video or sound card, then Windows is capable of finding the new hardware and asking for a driver disk and/or a Microsoft Windows install disk. However, what you have done is more or less the same as taking the hard disk and putting it into a totally different computer. Of course it won't work. There are probably Windows activation issues too with so much changed hardware. You will have to do a fresh new bare install of Windows. A repair install might work, but I would not bet on it. Even if it did, the resulting setup could be flaky. You had better think what you are going to do to safeguard any data on that disk that you don't want to nuke. if you have performed upgrades before, i am surprised that you are not aware of this!!!!! It is not exactly a secret. Thanks for your advice on this. I will do as you say. With regard to the "not exactly a secret" bit, I have as i said upgraded several times before and only on one occasion did i end up doing a windows reinstall. As i am not claiming to be a computer genius I also do not claim to know everything. I was just going on my previous experience and most of those included full board chip and ram upgrades. I appreciate your advice and will act on it. Many thanks for that. But the sarcasm used at the end of your post was unnecessary. Thanks again.Sorry if you did not appreciate my sarcasm. Still, you can always apply to the board admins to have your fee refunded. |
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