Plugged and prayed

mobohelp · 01-03-2005, 11:02 PM

Hello

I purchased a new Motherboard Cpu and Ram setup hoping to use it with my cuirrent hard drive without having to reinstall windows

I Had
1gig Athlon
524 pc133 Ram
SiS motherboard
128mb ati 9600se
maxtor 5400rpm HHD
windows xp sp2 fully updated

I decited to upgrade ram and cpu also got a new motherboard but wanted to use the same install of windows and not have to wipe HD clean

so i plugged and prayed now the New Setup wont load windows . computer will run the standard Post test but farts up a quick blue screen faster than i can read it and restarts

New Setup
Athlon xp 2600+
524 Kingston DDR333
Gigabyte 7NF-RZ nforce 2 chipset
128mb ati 9600se
maxtor 5400rpm HHD
windows xp sp2 fully updated

Can anyone help me?

johnwill · 01-04-2005, 06:18 AM

Connect the HD to the old MB/CPU, and boot it up. Uninstall ALL non-essential devices possible. Also, uninstall all instances of hard disk controllers, Storage Volumes, and optical drives, and the video drivers.

Move it back to the new system, and start with a minimum system, just the video board and hard disk. Once you get that to boot, install the video drivers, then start adding the other stuff back in.

01-03-2005, 11:02 PM	#1 (permalink)
mobohelp Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 1 OS: XP	Plugged and prayed Hello I purchased a new Motherboard Cpu and Ram setup hoping to use it with my cuirrent hard drive without having to reinstall windows I Had 1gig Athlon 524 pc133 Ram SiS motherboard 128mb ati 9600se maxtor 5400rpm HHD windows xp sp2 fully updated I decited to upgrade ram and cpu also got a new motherboard but wanted to use the same install of windows and not have to wipe HD clean so i plugged and prayed now the New Setup wont load windows . computer will run the standard Post test but farts up a quick blue screen faster than i can read it and restarts New Setup Athlon xp 2600+ 524 Kingston DDR333 Gigabyte 7NF-RZ nforce 2 chipset 128mb ati 9600se maxtor 5400rpm HHD windows xp sp2 fully updated Can anyone help me?

01-04-2005, 06:18 AM	#2 (permalink)
johnwill Manager, Networking Forums Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: S.E. Pennsylvania, US Posts: 40,997 OS: Windows 7, XP-Pro, Vista, Linux Blog Entries: 1	Connect the HD to the old MB/CPU, and boot it up. Uninstall ALL non-essential devices possible. Also, uninstall all instances of hard disk controllers, Storage Volumes, and optical drives, and the video drivers. Move it back to the new system, and start with a minimum system, just the video board and hard disk. Once you get that to boot, install the video drivers, then start adding the other stuff back in. __________________ If TSF has helped you, Tell us about it! or Donate to help keep the site up! Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience