new harware, xp won't boot

[mumbs]

I upgraded the motherboard, cpu, memory and video card in my computer, but still have the same hard drive, and windows xp will not boot. I get a message that says, "we're sorry for the inconvenience but windows has failed to boot properly. A significant hardware change may have caused this problem." I tried to look it up on how to repair windows so it works, or reinstalling, but I'm totally lost. I inserted the xp cd when i start the computer, but I do not get prompted to enter xp setup. I only see the line that allows me to enter motherboard/ bios setup bye pressing delete. If anyone could give me some simple instructions or a good link to help me that would be great. Thanks.

 

[stockjock]

Not uncommon thing to have happened to you....your gonna have to format and reload window.

Windows does not like it when you change chipsets...
To do a Reload, make sure your boot devices (HDD, Floppy, CD...etc) are set to boot to your CD first. This is done in your bios.

 

[Tu13erhead]

You could try a repair install of Windows which may allow you to keep your data. You'll have to enter BIOS setup by pressing delete, then find the Boot Sequence option and boot from CD. That should let you get into Windows installation. You DON'T want Recovery Console, you want a REPAIR INSTALL. Be warned that this might not work and you might lose your data, but it's better than a complete reinstall.

 

[Fern]

Yup, mobo/chipset driver conflict.

I always refromat etc. But, HERE'S an Anandtech article on changing mobo's w/o a reinstall. Scroll down to the bottom and see instructions under "Misc Notes"

Fern

 

[Tu13erhead]

Yep, what I said. Repair install should do the trick.

You could have also removed all your chipset drivers in Device Manager, then powered off and replaced the hardware and rebooted. Sometimes that works as well.

 

[BadThad]

Originally posted by: Tu13erhead
Yep, what I said. Repair install should do the trick.

You could have also removed all your chipset drivers in Device Manager, then powered off and replaced the hardware and rebooted. Sometimes that works as well.

This works....sometimes, lol.

 

[Tu13erhead]

Yeah, for the most part it worked on mine, but I still had a few problems so I did a repair install and it fixed everything.

 

[mumbs]

I set it to boot from cd in the bios, then when i restarted and the screen came up where it says "press any key to boot from cd" i press a key...but the keyboard doesn't work and it goes to the screen where i again get the message "we're sorry for the inconvenience bla bla bla..." and even on that screen i can't scroll up and down with the arrows to select the different options like safe mode etc. It just counts down from 20 some seconds until i go through the same process over and over. My keyboard only operates on the screen where it says "press delete to enter bios" and it works in the bios setup. Man this is frustrating, why doesn't microsoft make windows easier to accept a change in hardware? Does anyone have anymore advice? Maybe I have to format as mentioned above, which sounds like a grueling process for someone who has never done it. Is this what I have to do?

 

[Tu13erhead]

Uh, try a different keyboard?