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MoBo upgrade: WinME locking... Help please?

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mgpaulus

Golden Member
Hi,

I have a EPOX MVP3C with an AMD K6-3+/450, AHA3940, 3 SCSI disks and Windows ME that I am in the process of replacing with a Chinese VIA-4 board and a Celeron 850/128, and a 20GB IBM ULTRA-66 drive. I have gotten components moved around, and the OS all moved over to the new Disk.

System boots, checks memory, and brings up the WinME boot menu. However, sometime during the boot process, the system locks up completely. And I have let it sit for 45 minutes, so see if it's a timeout issue: No dice. I have set the PIO on the disk to 2, and UDMA to off. No help. When I do a prompted boot, I get as far as "load msmouse.vxd", and then it locks up.

Has anyone seen this, or have any ideas on what else I can try. The system will boot up completely into safe mode, so it must be one of the drivers it's loading, but how do I figure out which??

Any help would be appreciated.

Oh yeah, the system will boot and be fully functional under Tom's RootBoot rescue floppy, and under WinME boot floppy, etc, etc.

256MB PC133 RAM
CL TNT / 16MB
Onboard sound
3C905B Network card.
 
Have you already switched motherboards?

If so- Boot into safe mode. Remove all your drivers in device manager. Reboot and maybe if your lucky it will work. If it doesn't work- You might have to reinstall everything from scratch.
 
The boot up locking is happening on the new board/CPU, with the New disk. I think that if I were to put my video board back in the old system (old board is AT, new one is ATX, requiring new case, PS, etc, etc), and put the disks back in (had to take them out to do the copying), I would be able to boot the old system. But that would defeat the purpose of the exercise.....


 
try booting it with just the vid, mouse and keyboard, if it makes it to desktop add one pci at a time and don't use pci1 next to the agp slot, boot after adding each to see how far it gets and add the lan card last. also disable the sound in the bios until you get the rest working as it could be causing a conflict. Oh, don't forget to download updated drivers for your TNT, LAN, and mobo A.S.A.P.
 
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