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I Am Losing My Sanity... Help, Please.

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GlassDaddy90

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Ok. I bought an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ CPU, 512 MB Samsung PC3200, New case & PS (AMD Athlon Rated) & an MSI KT4V mobo. I install the new stuff in the case and rip out the guts of my prior system (HD, Video, Sound, etc.) and slap it into the new machine. I was lucky and got all the LED & switch connections right the first time (even the FDisk cable) and it fired right up. I went with the default BIOS to start and would go in and edit later. After it posted and showed all my hardware, I was waiting for XP to come up (XP Pro). It never got to the XP Pro screen during loading. It flashed a blue screen with some text, but disappeared in like 1/4 of a second, and rebooted my machine automatically. I tinkered with the BIOS for a while and didn't get any different results. So I started yanking hardware and disabling onboard gimmes (LAN, SOUND, Serial Stuff) to try and reduce it to the ridiculous. Nothing. Same reboot. Tried moving the RAM to a different bank, nothing. Swapped power supplies, nothing. A few times I tried to go into SAFE mode but it would do the same thing when it reached the 'AGP440' driver, and reboot. My card is brand new and tried and true on my previous system. It is a GeForce 4 TI 4200, 128 RAM. It's AGP 4x, but the board supports 8x. In the BIOS, it doesn't even give you the option of 8x so that wasn't a factor. I don't know if by it stopping at that AGP440 driver if it means anything or not. I tried unplugging everything but the video card, power cable and HD with ATA cable (even tried an old IDE cable) and it still will not load. I tried booting to my other HD (had no OS installed) and of course didn't load windows, but it didn't balk at me either. I booted to the XP CD and it loaded up Windows setup without any problems. The only two things that I don't have extras of to test is the RAM and video card. To make sure my existing hardware was not screwed up, I reinstalled them in the older PC and the HD in question booted to XP perfectly. This problem has really got me scratching my head, and has sucked up alot of my time today. I would GREATLY appreciate some help on resolving this issue. Thanks in advance!!!
 
Friend, this is pretty normal when you change motherboards. Time to reinstall Windows 😀
 
That is so not a good solution for me right now. My wife is finishing her senior year of college and has ALOT of stuff on this disk. Is there a way to install Windows from the CD and not format the disk so we can retain the data? TIA
 
I advise going back to the old hardware until you can back up the important data onto CD-R's or a spare hard drive, then do a clean Windows installation. But here's a FAQ that answers your question.
 
Go here to see what you should do before switching mobo's, you'll need to put your old comp back together first, then follow the faq and then switch your hardware. FYI, what's happening is that XP is trying to boot to the hardware you had before and suddenly it's not the same and hence...the BSOD :Q
 
Go here
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And get this included in your answer.

6.Install the new hardware, reboot, and pray.
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Moving win2k\XP from one chipset to another, almost always ends up being some form of a reinstall. In the past I have moved existing installs successfully from the same chipset on different motherboards, 440bx to 440bx, 810 to 810, ect.

You can reinstall over the top of the existing install and have the settings saved, by booting from the cd and go through the menus like your going to install it. Follow the prompts that say use your existing stuff. The most critical choice is when it asks you repair the existing install, or install over the top erasing the previous windows installation. Choose the repair the existing install option. This menu option is not available in XP upgrade, I found out the other day.

For a mad wife, the safest thing to do is put it back the way it was and make the switch at a more convenient time. Or buy more parts and make another system🙂
 
Unfortunately Win XP doesn'y like completely new system, or even half new ones come to think about it. If you were to take this HD and Ghost it to another, say you're mates, and he puts in his system, then WinXP (AFAIK) sees this as a form of pirating and doesn't work. Think about it, you could Ghost a hundred copies and it would cost MS $1000's.

Good luck with the backing up. If you have another hd, install XP on it, Ghost a drive image across or use the files and settings wizard.
 
I just finished installing Pro and that solved the entire problem. Thanks a million for the suggestions!! You will hearing from me again in the near future because my boot-up shows I only have a XP 1500+ opposed to the 2200+. I'll save that for later. Cya!
 
Cool, now go into the BIOS and set your CPU's bus speed to 133MHz and you should be up to speed 😎
 
Coolage, I changed it to 133 and it now registers as a 2200+. Let me ask you this and I must warn you that I have not really followed the newer Athlon CPU + DDR RAM calculations much. By setting the CPU FSB to 133 like I did, effectively with the DDR RAM my CPU FSB is actually at 266, is this right? If so, what about this scneario. MSI recommended the Samsung 512 PC3200 400mhz DDR RAM to go with this board, and the documentation said it should give the 333 & 400 mhz FSB. How do I do this? Just crank up the same CPU FSB setting to 166 and then 200? TIA!!
 
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