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by etherealraven 1 view

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Copying and pasting from www.aopen.com, where I posted also:

I recently got the AK77-333 board, OCZ 256 MB PC-2100 DDRAM, and Athlon XP 2100+. I also upgraded from a 300watt to a 350watt PSU. Let's save the PSU-replacement suggestion for last, shall we?

OK, I bought the new mobo/RAM/athlon to upgrade. I already had an MSI KT7 Turbo board. I already had WinXP running on a 30GB Western Digital HD. Now it doesn't seem to run. I have reset the CMOS, to no avail. What happens is: I turn it on, it boots into XP (if it gets that far) and it locks up either when Windows is loading, or after I have typed my password in to log on to Windows. It just randomly hangs. Here are the specs on my system:

AK77-333
Athlon XP 2100+
256MB OCZ PC-2100 DDRAM
Radeon 8500 LE (128MB DDR) (AGP)
SBLive! MP3+ 5.1
SOHOware LAN card
350watt psu

i thought that by just replacing the board, I wouldn't have any problems. I also tried booting off of the WinXP CD, and it hangs.

Oh, one more strangething! On my monitor, the lights where the settings are kept lighting up, back and forth. Is anything listed above not compatible? I need help please!!

Regards,
Ryan Wallace

P.S. If anyone has AOL Instant Messenger, we can do this live, IM me, "Ethereal Raven". Thanks!

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by sbaltus

I use aopen products all the time
when you changed your board all your system drivers are different that is why you computer will not boot(this is why you can't use a ghost image on 2 computer with vastley different hardware)you will need to reinstall windows or you can put the old biard back in get windows to boot and try to remove all the old drivers and shut down then change the mb this may work but it is a lot of trouble

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