Problem booting with new motherboard

[godlemon]

Hey everyone,

This is my first time posting and I just hope that someone out there can help me. I just bought an ASUS A7N8X board to replace my old Gigabyte GA-7ZX. I just felt that I had waited long enough and I needed an upgrade. Now, pretty much everything went fine. I replaced the motherboard and installed all of the cards and the CPU, memory, hard drives, etc. So I'm feeling pretty good because everything is working the first time. Then, BSOD. It POSTs and loads the drives and everything, but just before it gets to the WinXP logo screen, the BSOD comes up. I am completely at a loss for what to do. I can boot to dos through a floppy and access the hard drive from there and all, but no matter what I've tried to do, I can't boot normally. It won't even let me boot into Safe Mode. I'm really hoping that someone out there can help me. I'll provide any other info that you might need.

AMD AthlonXP 1900+
512MB Kingston DDR333 RAM
ASUS 9280 GF4
ASUS A7N8X 1002.A BIOS
SBLive5.1
Maxtor 30GB HD

Thanks in advance

 

[Prong]

Did you do a clean install of XP right after installing the new hardware? If not, that's what you need to do. I'm 99.99% sure that this will solve your problems if you haven't done a clean install.

 

[tjaisv]

Yeah, you need a clean install.

 

[VicodiN]

Originally posted by: tjaisv
Yeah, you need a clean install.

Correct-a-mundo

 

[mechBgon]

As an alternative, you can try this: put in your WinXP CD and boot from it. The first time Setup asks if you want to repair, or to install, tell it you want to install. It will do some stuff and then go "HEY! There's already a Windows installation, do you want to repair it?" and this time you go "heck yeah!" and tada, it will do its thing. Your data and programs should remain intact.

Welcome to the Forums, have fun with your new board You may want to peruse the Official A7N8X Thread in the Motherboards section for other info.

 

[tjaisv]

Sounds better

 

[TheCorm]

Originally posted by: VicodiN

Originally posted by: tjaisv
Yeah, you need a clean install.

Correct-a-mundo

I would say that this is the preferred option....I have found the windows xp repair option not too great.

Corm