Please HELP with P4 2.8c on Abit IS7

[irenealan]

Hi:

I just got my P4 2.8c, Abit IS7 and Corsair PC3200 512m X 2. After switching out my old board with the new setup and connect everything back, the system booted up but right when loading Window XP Prof (the Windows logo appears) the system rebooted. I changed the Bios to load the Fail/Safe options and the system still get rebooted when Window loads. I then raise the CPU voltage to 1.7 VCore (don't know if that's the right thing to do), but still Windows rebooted. I am not even OCing it but it still won't load. Does anyone know why and what happened to the system. Please help as I was very excited to receive this setup right until now that I can't even start Windows. Thanks for everyone's help!

Regards

 

[o1die]

I would lower your cpu voltage back down to about 1.5. If anything, you might have a power supply problem. What brand and rating is yours?

 

[MichaelZ]

no. your XP is no longer usable.

This is quite common. It is NOT ok to just switch the motherboard and try to use the same OS unless you're lucky and used a similair chipset in the previous motherboard from the same manufacturer.

XP does not like motherboard changes. Simply plugging everything the way it was on the old motherboard will most likely cause the problem of XP not being able to boot up. If your video card was fast enough without drivers, you should see a blue flash just before it reboots. That blue flash is the Windows XP error message telling you what it's holted on and why it's rebooted.

When you're at this stage... you got 2 options. Plug everything in your old motherboard and hope that XP will run again. Or, if there isn't anything important to salvage, just reinstall XP.

When I changed my MB I thought what the hell... try my luck and see if XP boots after the major change. I'm not a very lucky person and naturally it didn't work and I had to reinstall.

 

[Tbirdkid]

I say bs it is not that it is not ok. It is ok. Heres what i did. When booting into xp i held down the insert key and let xp load default drivers. Then i started deleting all the old drivers and took them totally out of my registry. Then i rebooted and let xp find the new drivers for the new chipset. I went from a nf2 barton rig to a p4 3.0c and a is7e. You can do it.... it just takes a little patience.

 

[irenealan]

Thanks Tbirdkid, I will try that next time with pressing the INSERT when booting Windows.

But can you tell me how you delete old or unused driver and take them out of registry?

Thanks for your help!