Computer reboots when loading windows

[Yoda9864]

I just put a new motherboard into my brothers computer (an M7NCD Pro from some Intel board) and everytime it starts booting Win Xp Pro it reboots. You can see a flash of hte winxp loading screen before it reboots. He has a 250w PSU, a Radeon 9600, and 1 gig of DDR RAM.

I know the motherboard is fine because I used it before him and it worked perfectly. The motherboard is the only thing I changed into his system.

I've tried starting in safe mode and have tried many other things. Could it possibly be the PSU?

 

[Unforgiven]

my guess is the power supply or bad ram. my guess is that the power supply is way under what you should be using and id start with that.

 

[vietofmars]

Did you reinstall XP after swapping mobo's?

 

[jlr69t]

I agree, you need a new P/S... Start with 350W

 

[RGuedes]

i believe, that the power supply, its not supporting your hardware... but i think that you it would have a reinstall your O.S. or format your hd and reinstall all again...
Good Luck

 

[Yoda9864]

Thanks for the replys guys. I tried swapping out PSU's. I put my 350w in there and same thing happened. The RAM is fine, I've been using it on that board for about 4 weeks now.

I was trying to do the swap without reinstalling the OS/reformatting, but it looks like I'll have to do that anyway, since that is pretty much my last option. Thanks again for your input.

 

[vietofmars]

When you swap mobo's, XP will balk at the new hardware.

If you want to see if it's a hardware problem, boot up knoppix or any of the other live linux cd's. If that runs then you know it's your OS.

 

[Fern]

I'm guessing it's because the proper chipset drivers aren't installed. I usually reformat/reinstall, but if you wanna try to make it work w/o that here's a link to an article detailing how