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by john

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I am building a computer from spare parts. The m/bds I have tried cannot be checked by me, but everything else has been tried in my current machine, but anyway they all worked well when I last used them. The ?old? hd is a Maxtor 40 Gb (AOK and only 2 months old) which has XP Prof etc on the board . The old Jetway V266B (18 months) was OK when I upgraded. There is a single 256 Mb PC 133 RAM fitted which is definitely OK. The CPU is an AMD Athlon 1300 (1000 true speed). The PSU is 300W.
The Bios registers everything OK and the starting screens are normal until the ?inconvenience? screen pops up and offers several startup choices. NONE WORK. After selecting ANY choice the machine freezes and will not progress, even the countdown stops. In the case of ?Safe Mode? a list of files careers past and ? freezes! I have tried two other ?old? m\bds with exactly the same results. Baffled. I have not tried ?FIXMBR? or whatever as I cannot quite understand how to ?get it?. In any case could this affect three different make motherboards one after the other. Your advices please.

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by john

Perhaps I should mention that I used 'system appropriate' memory in the 'other' boards. Can all three boards be 'naff'?

by willcomp

I assume that you are trying to boot from an XP installation that was already on the hard disk. Windows XP does not take kindly to major hardware changes and will fail early in the boot process when they occur. A mobo replacement with different chipset is the ultimate major change.

You need to reinstall Win XP with final hardware configuration in place. A repair installation should suffice. See the link below for instructions on how to perform a repair installation. You, of course, must have a Win XP CD.

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_install.htm

Dalton

by machinegun_kelly

Yeah your problem is your hard drive, not your planner boards. Just format that puppy already! Anyhow windows does this because of the chipset drivers already its system's folders. So its time for a fresh install, and if you need data off it, just slave it to a working computer and drag n drop your files to it.

When all else fails, when in doubt swap it out!

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