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stumped - blue screen after new mobo+cpu install

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draxxus5

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I upgraded my athlon 2400+ with some asus motherboard to an Athlon 64 3700+ and another asus motherboard.

Now though, when I boot into XP pro, immediately after the OS loads, i get a blue screen and the computer restarts. Okay... So I boot into Safe mode with command prompt. Type in chkdsk /f - "Disk is locked, run chdsk on restart?" Yes. Restart computer and it starts booting up the normal XP pro again, no option for safe mode and no chkdsk.... Uhg.

Now, I throw in the OEM XP Pro cd, boot to it and go to the repair console.
C:\WINDOWS\: chkdsk /p
"Found one or more errors"

Now what do I do? How do I fix those errors? I can't go /f after chkdsk, it says it's not a valid parameter.

Thanks guys.
 
Okay, I reinstalled the system files from the cd. Still no good.

However, now the computer freezes at the blue screen. It said stuff about making sure there's space on disk (there's 30gb free) , check for bios updates (none available), and some other stuff.
There isn't any physical memory dump, but the stop is like this:
STOP: 0x0000007 (xxxxxxxx,xxxxxxxx,xxxxxxxxx,x xxxxxxx)

Tried switching out the ram, no good. Same thing.

Any ideas?
 
Did you try to connect a drive with a fully installed version of Windows from another CPU and mobo? That's a questionable trick, even if you know where to start trying.
 
Meaning, unplug all my drives except for the hd? because yeah, i installed/removed drives often when my old mobo+cpu was in there
 
Aren't the chipsets on the two motherboards significantly different? Generally a new motherboard means a reinstall of windows, unless you are replacing the motherboard with the same model or at least a similar one.

There are ways to make it work, but no guarantees. It's usually easier to backup your data and reinstall.
 
Originally posted by: stash
Aren't the chipsets on the two motherboards significantly different? Generally a new motherboard means a reinstall of windows, unless you are replacing the motherboard with the same model or at least a similar one.

There are ways to make it work, but no guarantees. It's usually easier to backup your data and reinstall.
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That's what I was asking, too.
 
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