help - windows wont load

[Guest]

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Hi people,
Guru required. I've just upgraded my system and when
booting it says it has detected new hardware etc. and it gives me 5 options
ranging from safemode to a normal start. No matter what I pick it just
reboots again. Have I changed too much hardware? I'm about to format my hard
drive (which boots fine when I move drive & video card back to the old
case). Is it the same ram problem as Brett reported below? If so exactly
what do I change in the BIOS.

My components are :-
3.0 Ghz P4 prescott
ANTEC True blue 480 Watt power supply
Abit IC7-MAX3 "Canterwood" (Socket 478) Motherboard
ATI 9800 XT
120 Gb Western digital Se
1GB Corsair DDR XMS3200XL Pro TwinX (2x512MB) CAS2

All help appreciated. Thanks in anticipation,

Sideshow Bob

 

[Philo]

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"Sideshow Bob" <bob.proctor@talk21.com> wrote in message
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> Hi people,
> Guru required. I've just upgraded my system and when
> booting it says it has detected new hardware etc. and it gives me 5
options
> ranging from safemode to a normal start. No matter what I pick it just
> reboots again. Have I changed too much hardware? I'm about to format my
hard
> drive (which boots fine when I move drive & video card back to the old
> case). Is it the same ram problem as Brett reported below? If so exactly
> what do I change in the BIOS.
>


you could try an install-over

 

[Guest]

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Almost always when you upgrade hardware like mobo and processor you have to
do at least a repair install.
But starting from a clean slate is at least much safer and tidier...


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"philo" <philo@privacy.net> kirjoitti viestissä
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>
> "Sideshow Bob" <bob.proctor@talk21.com> wrote in message
> news:caqpl4$sid$1@titan.btinternet.com...
> > Hi people,
> > Guru required. I've just upgraded my system and when
> > booting it says it has detected new hardware etc. and it gives me 5
> options
> > ranging from safemode to a normal start. No matter what I pick it just
> > reboots again. Have I changed too much hardware? I'm about to format my
> hard
> > drive (which boots fine when I move drive & video card back to the old
> > case). Is it the same ram problem as Brett reported below? If so exactly
> > what do I change in the BIOS.
> >
>
>
> you could try an install-over
>
>

 

[Guest]

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you ran into XP's copy protection.
Your only hope, as far as I know, is to do a repair install. Not the repair
console thing, but a repair install. If you have that option, that should
put you back in business. It's like when you used to load win9X over itself
to get it going agian.

 

[Guest]

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Do a repair install on the existing installation.
I.e. press R the SECOND that is a possibility...


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"Alex Andra" <bogus@nowhere.net> kirjoitti viestissä
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> you ran into XP's copy protection.
> Your only hope, as far as I know, is to do a repair install. Not the
repair
> console thing, but a repair install. If you have that option, that should
> put you back in business. It's like when you used to load win9X over
itself
> to get it going agian.
>
>