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by etherealraven 2 views

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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 iton, 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 OCZPC-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 strange thing! 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 thechas

Hi Ryan,

My first thought is that XP is locking up on an activation event.

If you change to much hardware at once, XP thinks that it has been pirated to a new system, and may lock up to prevent unauthorized usage.

The eaziest way to check this is if you have or can borrow another hard drive, and see if XP will install fresh.

Next, were you able to un-install devices from device manager on your old system?
If not, XP could be hanging while trying to load drivers for devices that aredifferent than what is now in the system.
This is a common problem with system upgrades.
It is good practice to remove any devices that will not be part of the new system just before the last shutdown of the old PC.
See if you can get into safemode, and delete ALL devices.

Finally, I have seen XP have problems with specific card and slot combinations.

So, try swapping your PCI cards around in the slots.
I would try placing the cards in slots so that they had the same Motherboard default IRQ assignments as in the old motherboard.

Chas

by luminous

I have come accross a few people that have tried to upgrade systems as you have outlined. Unfortunately in my friends and my own experience windows does not take kindly to this. The old configuration of your system can easily foul things up. All the suggestions made above could solve it for you.

However the only way that i managed to get aroung this problem with other Win OS's was to completely reformat the hard drive and re-insatll (ensure that you backuip first).

If your system cannot boot so that you are unable to backup, take your harddrive to a friends machine or a pc store to copy files off first.

Its not all bad...a clean install of windows can make a huge difference to the system - normally it runs faster and takes up less space :)

by timwalsh

Are you getting a BSOD? Possibly a STOP error stating INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE?

I would hazard a guess that when you moved your hard drive from one mobo to another, the second mobo uses a different IDE controller chipset and thus different drivers.

If you aren't getting a BSOD (the computer just stops working), have you attempted to boot into safe mode? Are you getting any error messages during bootup?

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