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Hey,

Would be awesome if someone could possibly help me out with my new build.

I got it working yesterday, installed XP, loaded everything and it was working fine. However, after a while it just started going really slow and this morning it took about an hour and a half to boot and another hour to start working at a decent speed. I also got the blue screen of death yesterday, I just put it off for 10 mins then loaded it again and it seemed fine.

The only hardware that isn't new is the HD which is quite old I think. I took it out another computer.

I can give you all the components if needed.

Any help would be really helpful.

Thanks,

AlanPost the entire BSOD including the gibberish...

Is there an OS installed on the old drive ? ?I don't know how I'd get the info of the bsod cause i just turned it off and back on again when it came up.

I installed a fresh XP yesterday as I thought that would run faster than vista or 7, guess i was wrong

I turned it on there and it was loading the windows screen for about 15 mins so i just restarted it and went into the bios.

I can post any bios info if that would help.

Thanks for the reply.

Alan

Here are the specs:

ASUS P5QL/EPU iP43 Socket 775 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard
Intel Pentium Dual Core E5300 2.6GHz Socket 775 800FSB 2MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor
Crucial 4GB (2X2GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Ballistix Memory CL4 2.0V
Sapphire HD 4670 512MB GDDR3 DVI VGA HDMI PCI-E Graphics Card
Samsung SH-S223 22x DVD±RW DL Internal SATA 3 Bezel Drive - Retail Box & Software
Hi-Power Black 800W 14cm Blue LED Fan PSU - 20+4pin 4x SATA 4x PCI-E
Quote from: patio on April 05, 2010, 05:29:19 AM

Post the entire BSOD including the gibberish...

Is there an OS installed on the old drive ? ?

To display the BSOD go to Control Panel/System/Advanced/Startup and Recovery...un-check "Auto Restart on errors"...

Also try powering down and disconnecting the old HDD...does it boot NORMAL then ?Thanks for the reply.

I tried to get into windows but its just taking too *censored* long to power up. From the windows loading screen I left it to load, came back about 45 mins later and it was still on it, so I dont think getting into windows is an option.

Its so weird because I havent installed any programs bar firewall/virus. Only COD modern warfare 2 which i was playing yesterday, and suddenly it wont load up without taking hours.

Would it help if i took out a ram stick, currently i have 4 gig but xp only goes to 2gig, if thats right? Could that be overloading something maybe?

I'll try dc the hd but the os is installed,on it if that makes a diff. I'll post back once IVE disconnected it and tried to power up.

Thanks

Ok soi disconnected the hd and at start up it says "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"


I tried starting in safe mode and i got this:

system32/ntoskrnl.exe

I googled it and got this:

Keyboard issue
Miscellaneous corruption
Corrupt boot.ini file.
Missing boot.ini file.
Missing or corrupt ntoskrnl.exe file.
Windows NT installed on a partition bigger then 7.8GB
Corrupted hard disk drive or severely corrupted Windows.

Reinstall windows? New HD?
i think you need a new hard drive is it a SATA or IDE hard drive and how old exactly?Its IDE, I'm nt sure exactly how old I took out out like a compact I got off ebay. I'll take it out today and see if it has a model number or what not.

Thanks for the reply,

AlanOk so the HD that's in it is a Western Digital WD400 - is that really old??Quote from: vizvim on April 06, 2010, 01:17:02 AM
Its IDE, I'm nt sure exactly how old I took out out like a compact I got off ebay. I'll take it out today and see if it has a model number or what not.


This is part of the issue right here...
Since Win2K you can't simply swap a drive with XP in one machine from another...
It's looking for the other machine's hardware...


Quote from: patio on April 06, 2010, 06:00:16 AM
This is part of the issue right here...
Since Win2K you can't simply swap a drive with XP in one machine from another...
It's looking for the other machine's hardware...




Even if it's been reformatted, new OS and was working ok?

So you think a new HD then?Start from the top and answer each question i have asked in order.


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