New AMD 64 3000, Chanitech VNF3-250

[lockness]

Im upgrading my system with AMD 64 3000+ and Chaintech VNF3-250 and PC3200 ram. It boots past the bios fine but as soon as it starts loading win XP Pro, an error flashes across the screen and it reboots. Ive tried all the flavors of safe mode and continue to get the same results. The only new hardware Im working with is listed above, I also have new video card but I get the same results either way.

The old PC setup was a AMD 1400 Athlon and Epox mother board.

anyone have any ideas how to trap the error that windows flashs to the screen or any ideas of what may be wrong?

 

[RaymondY]

Did u do a clean/new install of WinXP???

 

[3chordcharlie]

Originally posted by: lockness
Im upgrading my system with AMD 64 3000+ and Chaintech VNF3-250 and PC3200 ram. It boots past the bios fine but as soon as it starts loading win XP Pro, an error flashes across the screen and it reboots. Ive tried all the flavors of safe mode and continue to get the same results. The only new hardware Im working with is listed above, I also have new video card but I get the same results either way.

The old PC setup was a AMD 1400 Athlon and Epox mother board.

anyone have any ideas how to trap the error that windows flashs to the screen or any ideas of what may be wrong?

If you didn't reinstall windows, what's happening is Windows loads a driver for your IDE controller that is incompatible with your new motherboard.

You aren't going to be able to 'trap' the error at this point. You *could* reinstall your old mobo/cpu, and remove the IDE drivers, turn off the machine immediately, swap the mobo and cpu again, boot it up, and it might work. But realistically you need to reinstall windows.

If you have important data, try installing windows on a spare hdd or a spare partition on the one you have, which will let you get at the data long enough to make any backups.

 

[lockness]

Thanks for the advice. I was hping it wouldnt come to that but Ill give it a shot.

 

[Sideswipe001]

You don't have to reformat. Just do a repair of windows.

Boot off of the Windows XP cd - proceed like normal, saying you want to do an install (NOT a repair using repair console, etc). After you hit F8 to agree, it will tell you it found a version of Windows XP installed. Say you want to repair it.

It will go through setup almost the exact same way. Except when it finishes, all your programs and data are still there.

 

[mastrduke]

does that repair also work with windows me?

i need to reinstall windows me...wondering if that would work

 

[jpeyton]

Windows ME? oh dear.

 

[Sideswipe001]

No. First off, Windows ME is garbage (either use 98 or 2000/XP). Second, the repair only works for 2000/XP. Setup for 98/ME doesn't even have the option.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: lockness
Im upgrading my system with AMD 64 3000+ and Chaintech VNF3-250 and PC3200 ram. It boots past the bios fine but as soon as it starts loading win XP Pro, an error flashes across the screen and it reboots. Ive tried all the flavors of safe mode and continue to get the same results. The only new hardware Im working with is listed above, I also have new video card but I get the same results either way.

The old PC setup was a AMD 1400 Athlon and Epox mother board.

anyone have any ideas how to trap the error that windows flashs to the screen or any ideas of what may be wrong?

Put the drive in the old machine. Turn off automatic reboots (My Computer / Properties / Advanced / Startup & Recovery / uncheck auto-reboot). Change your IDE driver to the default WinXP driver (the Standard IDE driver).

Now move the drive and see what happens.

 

[lockness]

You don't have to reformat. Just do a repair of windows.

Boot off of the Windows XP cd - proceed like normal, saying you want to do an install (NOT a repair using repair console, etc). After you hit F8 to agree, it will tell you it found a version of Windows XP installed. Say you want to repair it.

It will go through setup almost the exact same way. Except when it finishes, all your programs and data are still there.


I tried this method but the install isnt recognizing that there is a current installation of XP on the hard drive... I then put in another hard drive that also has XP and it recognized it, repaired it and works fine. Anyone have any idea how to get it to recognize that there is indeed a current installation of XP on the other drive? Im despirately trying not to format this drive .


Thanks

 

[vorlen]

actually you need to boot in safe mode install cd for mb and reboot i have same setup