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XP Pro won't repair!

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dynasty

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I just switched from an AMD setup. ASUS A7N8X Deluxe mobo, and amd 2500. I switched to an ASUS P4P800, P4 2.6C. Well when i boot from disc in bios to repair windows when it gets to the windows setup screen with the continue=enter r=repair f3=exit. When i go to press r it freezes and it also freezes when i press enter. It won't even exit! What is up with this? Thanks and I appreciate all of ya'lls help.
 
Well you switched from one CPU architecture to a completely different one, and your OS probalby can't even load itself now. There are ways to prep your OS install before changing motherboards, but as you've already swapped them out you may need to reinstall. Google and check around for yourself to make sure, though.
 
aka1nas

In case you didn't notice, he is already trying to reinstall.


dynasty, check which channel you have hooked the CDROM up to, and check the cables for
loose connections.

 
Oh sorry dynasty, I didn't catch that it was freezing when you tried to do a normal setup. Definately follow CQuinn's advice and if that isn't the problem I would burn up a copy of memtest86 and boot it up and see if your hardware is stable.
 
burn a copy of memtest and then change my bios to boot under that cd? lmk, thanks, also it boots to windows just fine. I went into windows and erased my old ati drivers and a couple other things. So is there any need to reinstall or repair windows? Thanks
 
If it boots into windows just fine, there is less need for a repair or reinstall; but I would
go thru device manager and have Windows redetect all the hardware just to be sure it
got all the changes properly diagnosed.
 
hey thanks alot for the thread man, i did everything, and still the same thing. It only happens after I install the catalyst drivers. When it restarts from installing them the whole screen is jumbled up and you can't make out anything its mainly blue streaks but also has some white, and yellow in there. Then I go into safe mode and delete them and then it boots up and looks fine. Except the screen moves really slow because there are no drivers. Could this be my video card? Thanks
 
After you install the Catalyst Drivers, reboot and from the run memu type:
dxdiag [/whql😱ff] exactly as shown with spaces, etc. Note: the smiley is a
colon : followed by the letter o

I really would not recommend going from a AMD XP install to a P4C without a new install.
There is just to much residue that bothers me IMHO. If you can't get it to re-install, then
take a Win98 boot disk and delete the partition and it should let you start from there.
 
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