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New Hardware -> Huge Problems

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omikreuz

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Hi there, I'm really stuck on this and would appreciate some help. I've looked through the knowledge base as well as plenty of other forums.

Here's the situation: I just upgraded my computer, a total overhaul. The only things left from my old computer are the optical drives (A Lite-On DVD+-RW and an MSI DVD-ROM) the Soundblaster 7.1 card, and the 200GB WD Caviar HD.

The new things are:

Gigabyte K8N Ultra-9 Mobo
Athlon 64 4000+
ASUS N7800 GTX TOP
Seasonic S12-500 PSU
Antec P180
Thermalright XP-120

I also changed the IDE cables from the ones I was using to rounded cables.

When I tried to boot after constructing it, I went through a number of problems and have now got one that stays: BSOD with session3_initialization_failed.

After working a bunch of stuff, I tried to do repair the windows installation by reinstalling, but not formatting. Something went wrong mid-install (sadly I wasn't looking, but it had gotten to the in-windows setup portion of the install) and now it will just start to boot and then restart. I've started to backup the HDD using the old computer and a spare HDD and am going to try a clean install on a freshly formatted drive.

Does anyone know what could be causing this? I would greatly appreciate the help
 
Windows doesn't play well when you try and change motherboards on it. Sometimes, if you remove all motherboard devices and controllers in Windows, then power down, replace the motherboard, power up, and immediately do a Repair Install, it _might_ work. However, there are no guarantees. When you tried to boot to Windows you might've munged something, so it looks like the only way to do anything will be a format and clean install.
 
You can't just swap mobos and reboot. You HAVE TO perform a Windows Repair install. However, it's too late for that. By starting a re-installation of Windows you've probably corrupted the install. Time to backup your data, format, and do a clean install.
 
A friend says he follows this procedure:

1-remove every board except video
2-reduce video to VGA 640x480 with vanilla drivers
3-remove all devices, USB, printers, etc
4-if you use a programmed keyboard, get a low end one
5-clean the hard drive, scandisk, defrag, disk cleanup utitily, empty bin
6-boot up and check to ensure there are no device errors
7-shutdown and install new toys
8-first boot to safemode.
9-when stable, reboot to normal
10-no toys or boards yet, get the motherboard software working
11-update video card drives
12-add other devices one at a time

I also found this link:

http://www.windowsreinstall.com/install/other/motherboard/winxp.htm
 
From the looks of it you jumped from one platform (xp or P4) to a 64 setup. I would highly advise to backup and format. You are beating a dead bush to death try to get an old install to work with that new hardware. Why would you want that new hardware to struggle with leftovers from the old system (they are there like it or not).
 
Originally posted by: omikreuz
Hi there, I'm really stuck on this and would appreciate some help. I've looked through the knowledge base as well as plenty of other forums.

Here's the situation: I just upgraded my computer, a total overhaul. The only things left from my old computer are the optical drives (A Lite-On DVD+-RW and an MSI DVD-ROM) the Soundblaster 7.1 card, and the 200GB WD Caviar HD.

The new things are:

Gigabyte K8N Ultra-9 Mobo
Athlon 64 4000+
ASUS N7800 GTX TOP
Seasonic S12-500 PSU
Antec P180
Thermalright XP-120

I also changed the IDE cables from the ones I was using to rounded cables.

When I tried to boot after constructing it, I went through a number of problems and have now got one that stays: BSOD with session3_initialization_failed.

After working a bunch of stuff, I tried to do repair the windows installation by reinstalling, but not formatting. Something went wrong mid-install (sadly I wasn't looking, but it had gotten to the in-windows setup portion of the install) and now it will just start to boot and then restart. I've started to backup the HDD using the old computer and a spare HDD and am going to try a clean install on a freshly formatted drive.

Does anyone know what could be causing this? I would greatly appreciate the help
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You can freely move XP from one set of hardware to another, in spite of what others here have said. There are two reasons it wouldn't boot: a different HAL (hardware abstraction layer) or missing hard drive controller drivers. Windows can easily PnP the rest, and there is no reason to do the other work mentioned above.

The error you mention doesn't point to either of those problems explicitly, but I do see a few mentions of RAID drivers when googling. If you boot this machine with a Windows CD and go into recovery console, for example, does it go to the RC without issues? If you put the HDD back in the old machine (will it still boot the old machine?) and then switch the HDD controller to "PCI Standard IDE Controller" and *immediately* move it to the new PC, does it then boot in the new machine?

Links to session3_initialization_failed error:
http://www.highdots.com/forums/windows-...initialization-0xc000026c-1451642.html << Shows happening from bootable CD
http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=58136 << Shows it happening with bootable XP CD (ie not from HDD 'move')
http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/archive/index.php/t-102617.html << RAID-driver related?

 
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