Hey guys... I have a problem.
I got a new CPU, RAM, and mobo recently. I swapped them out and they all worked perfectly for a day. Now I got a new hard drive from Fry's and I installed Windows XP on it with SP2 already slipstreamed. I transferred the old hard drive files to my new hard drive, took out the old one, booted back up. Still worked, so now I just needed to get the latest updates. I downloaded SP3 (manually, not through Windows Update) and installed it. It asked me to reboot and I hit "OK". It rebooted, got to the BIOS screen... then just rebooted again. It won't get past that, I can't boot to a CD, the BIOS won't respond the keyboard so I can't get into it.
I tried resetting the CMOS, but no dice. I can't think of what else to do. At first, I thought it was SP3, but now I'm thinking it's the motherboard because if it was the OS, it'd at least get to the spot where I could pick to boot to safe mode or boot to a CD, right?
Mobo: GA-EP45-DS3L
CPU: Intel C2D E8400
Hopefully someone can advise me.
edit: By the way, before I got the new hard drive, I flashed the mobo to the latest BIOS, F8.
I got a new CPU, RAM, and mobo recently. I swapped them out and they all worked perfectly for a day. Now I got a new hard drive from Fry's and I installed Windows XP on it with SP2 already slipstreamed. I transferred the old hard drive files to my new hard drive, took out the old one, booted back up. Still worked, so now I just needed to get the latest updates. I downloaded SP3 (manually, not through Windows Update) and installed it. It asked me to reboot and I hit "OK". It rebooted, got to the BIOS screen... then just rebooted again. It won't get past that, I can't boot to a CD, the BIOS won't respond the keyboard so I can't get into it.
I tried resetting the CMOS, but no dice. I can't think of what else to do. At first, I thought it was SP3, but now I'm thinking it's the motherboard because if it was the OS, it'd at least get to the spot where I could pick to boot to safe mode or boot to a CD, right?
Mobo: GA-EP45-DS3L
CPU: Intel C2D E8400
Hopefully someone can advise me.
edit: By the way, before I got the new hard drive, I flashed the mobo to the latest BIOS, F8.
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