- Feb 7, 2010
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I just today replaced my old socket 754 AMD motherboard with an ASUS P5N-E SLI board, with a totally new socket type (socket 775) and Core 2 duo cpu. I also installed a new radeon HD 5770, and the RAM I ordered isn't here yet but I'm anxious to get the thing up and running so I stole 2 sticks of memory out of my dad's computer. The mobo is supposed to take up to DDR2 800mhz, but in my dad's computer I found a 512mb stick of 533mhz and a 1GB stick of 600 something mhz.
Now when I boot up my computer with all the new hardware (but same PSU, hard drive, and everything, which all worked fine), it has a black screen for a few seconds, probably doing a POST, and gives a short beep. Then it says to press tab for the POST message, or DELETE to enter setup. I've tried pressing TAB to get the POST results, and sometimes it'll say CMOS checksum error, but that's only happened once or twice. Another time it said BOOT PROBLEM, reinstall windows and try again or something like that...
BTW I don't think it's a memory problem because when I take the sticks out and start it up it doesn't display anything and it gives one long beep and two short beeps, indicating that it needs its memory back.
Also when I try to boot windows, it gets all the way up to where the little spinning colors come together to form the windows logo, then the screen goes black and I have to restart the computer. When I start it back up and it takes me to which OS I want to boot, it says windows did not start properly and I should run the windows startup repair tool. If I do that, it's the closest to any GUI I've seen so far, but it says it can't repair the system and if there was a recent hardware or software change, to remove the new stuff, and try booting again. Well, I can't really do that, can I, since it's my new better hardware?
Now if I successfully get to the post message, and press F1 to continue, it'll try to automatically boot windows, but it won't even get as far as the screen where i choose what to boot, it just displays "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter".
Anyways idk what to do, maybe I should have uninstalled all my old drivers in windows before I upgraded my crap, but too late for that now....
Now when I boot up my computer with all the new hardware (but same PSU, hard drive, and everything, which all worked fine), it has a black screen for a few seconds, probably doing a POST, and gives a short beep. Then it says to press tab for the POST message, or DELETE to enter setup. I've tried pressing TAB to get the POST results, and sometimes it'll say CMOS checksum error, but that's only happened once or twice. Another time it said BOOT PROBLEM, reinstall windows and try again or something like that...
BTW I don't think it's a memory problem because when I take the sticks out and start it up it doesn't display anything and it gives one long beep and two short beeps, indicating that it needs its memory back.
Also when I try to boot windows, it gets all the way up to where the little spinning colors come together to form the windows logo, then the screen goes black and I have to restart the computer. When I start it back up and it takes me to which OS I want to boot, it says windows did not start properly and I should run the windows startup repair tool. If I do that, it's the closest to any GUI I've seen so far, but it says it can't repair the system and if there was a recent hardware or software change, to remove the new stuff, and try booting again. Well, I can't really do that, can I, since it's my new better hardware?
Now if I successfully get to the post message, and press F1 to continue, it'll try to automatically boot windows, but it won't even get as far as the screen where i choose what to boot, it just displays "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter".
Anyways idk what to do, maybe I should have uninstalled all my old drivers in windows before I upgraded my crap, but too late for that now....
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