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Please help, windows boot problems after new hardware

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Sprayy

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I have no idea whats going on, just installed the following:
Asus P5W DH Deluxe motherboard
Pentium e6400
OCZ PC6400 2gb 2 gb PC2 6400 RAM Platinum ~ OCZ2P8002GK
My hard drive is a WD 320GB SATA

It's plugged into the SATA-1, and shows in up in bios as ThirdIDE master

I also have a primery IDE master and slave, whicher are 2 dvd roms

It'll go into the windows "You did not shut down properly screen" after i hit start normal it reboots back to bios.

I've tried leaving the bios stock and also tried to mess around with the settings a bit...anyone have any ideas?
 
When it goes to the CMOS, are the settings correct? Make sure your boot order is set to your preferences.

On a friend's machine, I found that if, after successfully booting, you disconnected the main SATA drive and rebooted, the boot order got screwed up. I was able to fix it by disconnecting the optical drives and rebooting. Then, shutting down, reconnecting the remaining drives and rebooting again.

Another thing you could try is clearing your CMOS and seeing if the system recognizes your drives correctly on reboot.

Hope that helps. 🙂
 
Topic Title: Please help, windows boot problems after new hardware
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Topic Summary: after new cpu/mobo/ram comp wont boot into windows
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Are you trying to boot into a Windows installed with your old CPU/MB?
If so, that's a No-No.
 
Yes...windows from my last computer, why is that a problem? I've done this many times before


Looks like this is a common issue with the ram
 
Unless your new motherboard is using exactly the same chipset, drivers, interrupts, etc., Windows XP is not very tolerant of such complete changes. It was easier under Win 98, but even then, it wasn't a sure thing.

If you can still boot in Safe Mode, you could try going into Device Manager and Add/Remove Programs and deleting or uninstalling ALL of the old motherboard and video drivers and all the old drives and rebooting to let Windows find them, again.

When you reboot, Windows will find the drives and you can try installing the drivers for your motherboard and vid card.

If that works, you MAY get away with it.

If you want to make it easier, see if you can still boot to your old motherboard, and export your address book, bookmarks, etc. and BACK UP YOUR DATA before you try this. You're probably going to have to re-install Windows, but if you try the above without backing up, you may lose access to all of it.

Norton Ghost is your friend. Get a second hard drive and clone your drive before you start.

 
wont boot in safe mode either
Anyways it's definately a ram problem, it's a known issue, OCZ is sneding me new ram
 
New RAM will not likely fix the problem. XP considers a new CPU/Mobo as a new computer, thus wanting a new OS. It's a licensing issue. Anyway, I've done this many times under XP (MANY TIMES) and I have ALWAYS had to reinstall my OS.

It is inevitable.



 
If the machine posts, you can verify the ram issue by using a bootable floppy or CD with memtest 186 on it. I would suggest "the ultimate boot cd'' which contains many other helpful utilities. Memtest will thoughly test the memory, and if it works memory is not the problem.

As to restarting windows after a new mobo ... here is whats often works for me. When just booting to the new combo doesn't (very common) work, use your bootable winxp cd to do a "repair" install. You will need the autherization (?sp) code. This is done by booting to the cd first. When the cd asks if you want to repair with "R" and control panel say no. The next screen asks to install XP, say yes. The next screen asks if you want to repair the XP it found. Select your xp installation (if it found yours ... if not stop here) and xp will install your new hardware supporting the installed programs. Your milege may vary. I think that's your only shot at getting the rig working on your old harddrive.


Jim
 
I've done this as well and unfortunately for me, it was a very problematic after the fact (hardware was flaky, conflicts, etc. popped up...lost all my icons to generic windows icons). I ended up reinstalling anyway. Though, it will give you some extra time to back up whatever data you want to so it's not all bad.



 
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