New system - POSTs fine, BSOD upon windows loading

[MrBond]

Got my CPU, MB, and RAM from Newegg today, swapped the old board/ram out of my system and installed the new one tonight.

The system POSTs fine, no problems apparent there. Upon trying to load windows though, I get a BSOD. I thought maybe I needed to reinstall WinXP, so I tried to boot from the CD. No dice there, the system hung and I had to hard reboot.

I unplugged everything but the video card and the main drive, still no go.

What does this sound like? I know the CPU was working, I bought it from a reputable trader here. The MB/Ram could be bad, but unfortunatly, I have nothing here to test it with (only one other P4 system in the house, and I'm fairly sure it's a 400mhz FSB only board). Would running Memtest be a good idea?

It's a P2 2.6ghz in an IS7 board with Buffalo Technologies ram (1 stick, DDR 3200, 512mb).

Any help is appreciated, this is my first p4 build so I'm a lot green 😀

Also, I noticed upon posting, it's telling me the Host/DRAM freqency is 200/200, shouldn't that be higher?

Update : working fine now, thanks guys and happy holidays 😀

 

[blodhi74]

what were the specs of the old rig ... is the chipset different on the new MOBO ?

 

[MrBond]

Yeah, vastly different. The specs on the old one were:

Athlon 1.1ghz, 512mb ram (2 sticks), Asus a7v mobo. The drives are the same in both setups (CDRW, DVD, 2 HDDs)

 

[capricorn]

It's not surprising that your new system BSODs when booting from your old hard disk. Some of the low-level drivers on there would be for your old board and your new board might choke on them. Also, your old hard drive is likely missing some drivers that your new board needs. I've swapped a number of boards and got lucky enough to get the system boot, but in every case, I ended up reformatting and reinstalling the OS (and everything else) in order to get the stability and speed expected.

Now, about not being able to boot from your XP cd, you don't have your drives on a SCSCI and/or RAID card do you? That is, any special drive card that would require drivers to even to just install the OS. Other than that, booting from CD always works for me. (Make sure that booting from CD is first [or second after the floppy] in the BIOS boot order.) If you have a floppy, you can probably make a set of installation diskettes from yours Windows XP disk. I know you can from Windows 2000, but I've never tried that from XP (as booting from the CD always worked for me).

-cap

 

[capricorn]

Originally posted by: MrBond
Yeah, vastly different. The specs on the old one were:

Athlon 1.1ghz, 512mb ram (2 sticks), Asus a7v mobo. The drives are the same in both setups (CDRW, DVD, 2 HDDs)

Geez. Going from Athlon to Intel -- I would almost guarantee a clean install would be required.

-cap

 

[blodhi74]

agree with Capricon .... had to update the rig and went from VIA to nForce 2 and had to format the HD and did a clean install for the new rig to work ....I presume U have win XP ..... if so a clean inatall is in order .... sorry for the bad news 🙁

 

[Ionizer86]

How many cdrom boot options are there in the bios? Are there different choices for various cdrom drives? Mess around a bit.

Oh and definitely, I agree that you should back up the data and reformat with a new build. For kicks, when I was upgrading, I put my HDD in my nForce 2 system from the previous Via KT266A system. It wouldn't go far at all.

 

[MrBond]

Got it working guys, thanks. Formatting C: now, I installed XP on another partition to backup my files from C:, about to reinstall XP on the other partition here shortly.

 

[chocoruacal]

Heh...the joys of formatting for a new system 🙂 Unrelated to your (former) problem, I suggest running Memtest86 for the Buffalo RAM...let it run overnight. I've had terrible luck with the Buffalo I've been getting from Newegg...lots of errors.