New setup, doesn't load Windows

Phan7omEli7e™ · 10 Jul 2006 at 14:20

Ok, I have just upgraded to the AMD Athlon 64 3500+, with the Gigabyte K8 Triton Series, Skt 939. I have 2x 512MB DDR Kingston RAM, a 120GB Maxtor HDD, a floppy drive, and 2 DVD drives. Thereis also a ATi Radeon 9250, and a Twinhan DTV Ter D + A TV card.
What happens is, it loads the bios and stuff at the start, says the CPu clock frequency is 200Mhz, which I know is wrong. Then it gives me the options of loading Windows in: Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, Safe Mode with Command Prompt, Last Known Good Configuration, and Start Windows Normally. I try any option, and it flashes the Windows loading screen for a split second, then restarts back to the Bios loading screen. I then get the same options, and try something else, enything else, and get the same effect
So, I took out everything except the HDD, 1 stick of RAM, and the Graphics Card (I thought that because I was getting video, that couldn't be the problem). And I get the same things.
I'm thinking I need to reinstall the OS, but before I do that I will try another HDD.

hp7909 · 10 Jul 2006 at 14:25

Phan7omEli7e™ said:
Ok, I have just upgraded to the AMD Athlon 64 3500+, with the Gigabyte K8 Triton Series, Skt 939. I have 2x 512MB DDR Kingston RAM, a 120GB Maxtor HDD, a floppy drive, and 2 DVD drives. Thereis also a ATi Radeon 9250, and a Twinhan DTV Ter D + A TV card.
What happens is, it loads the bios and stuff at the start, says the CPu clock frequency is 200Mhz, which I know is wrong. Then it gives me the options of loading Windows in: Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, Safe Mode with Command Prompt, Last Known Good Configuration, and Start Windows Normally. I try any option, and it flashes the Windows loading screen for a split second, then restarts back to the Bios loading screen. I then get the same options, and try something else, enything else, and get the same effect
So, I took out everything except the HDD, 1 stick of RAM, and the Graphics Card (I thought that because I was getting video, that couldn't be the problem). And I get the same things.
I'm thinking I need to reinstall the OS, but before I do that I will try another HDD.

If you've changed the mobo then 9 out of 10 you'll need to reinstall Windows. If your lucky (the 1) to have Windows run without doing that, I would still do a fresh install. Too many beneficial reason to list :cool:

Phan7omEli7e™ · 10 Jul 2006 at 14:33

Ok, well I upgraded my mums PC to what I had earlier, (AMD Sempron 2400, 256MB DDR, ASRock K7S41GX), and it worked fine, except it's slow, I could play games just fine on those specs. Reinstall OS?
Also, I'm going to wait for more replies, just be safe. No offense though.

Yewen · 10 Jul 2006 at 14:44

You will need a new install of the OS, as its looking for components that are not there getting confused and starting up again to avoid any damage.

Phan7omEli7e™ · 10 Jul 2006 at 14:58

Ok, but what can I do about my stuff? I have TONS of stuff I need, is there any way to reinstall without erasing my stuff?
Or could I put the HDD in another computer, along with the families only DVD burner, and burn the stuff to some DVDs?

Yewen · 10 Jul 2006 at 15:01

Yes to another PC without erasing the stuff.

If you re-install windows onto the same drive it will wipe all date on that drive / partition.

You could also use a linux bootable ISO to access your files and send them to DVD or network.

You really should backup before making a major hardware change, I re-install if I change from ATI to Nvidia graphics cards.

Phan7omEli7e™ · 10 Jul 2006 at 15:04

Well I didn't know that would happen! If I did I would have made backups!
And was that a yes, to putting the HDD and DVD-R drive on another computer? Would that one still boot it's OS, and be able to view my HDD stuff?
Along to way of reinstalling, does it ask you if you want to keep your files?

lee87 · 10 Jul 2006 at 16:10

Try doing a Windows repair. I had the same problem when changing a motherboard and this fixed it so I could get back to windows.
There will be a option to repair windows when you boot from the XP disc.

Phan7omEli7e™ · 10 Jul 2006 at 18:35

Ok well I got it working.
So, I then truned it off, moved it upstairs, and it loaded the BIOS, so I changed the boot priority to the HDD, and saved.
I exit, and the screen goes blank.
Restart, nothing comes on screen. I get 3 beeps; 1 long beep and then 2 shorter beeps.
EDIT: I truned it on again, still a blank screen, but this time no beeps and the HDD LED stays on, with no apparant HDD activity.

Larnica · 10 Jul 2006 at 18:40

Hiya, I had the problem when updating a lot of my components including the motherboard, I even tried "Windows Repair" but I had to end up doing a complete re-install loosing everything, I hate to give you bad news but I spent days/weeks trying to find a solution and didnt have any luck, I would suggest putting your old machine together and pray it boots, backup then replace

Goodluck

Phan7omEli7e™ · 10 Jul 2006 at 18:46

I don't think that would have anything to do with not getting anything on-screen. I had it working fine only a few minutes before.

xirokx · 10 Jul 2006 at 21:24

I'm thinking I need to reinstall the OS

what you have done is technically rebuilt your pc so therefore a fresh xp installation is a MUST...

Ok well I got it working.
So, I then truned it off, moved it upstairs, and it loaded the BIOS, so I changed the boot priority to the HDD, and saved.
I exit, and the screen goes blank.
Restart, nothing comes on screen. I get 3 beeps; 1 long beep and then 2 shorter beeps.
EDIT: I truned it on again, still a blank screen, but this time no beeps and the HDD LED stays on, with no apparant HDD activity.

did you install a fresh copy of XP? what bios do you have? to find this out when your pc boots look at the top right handside of the screen...then post it here we can tell you what the beeps are saying...

As far as backing up all your data in concerned...take as many hdd out as you have...put the hdd into a another machine set the jumper to slave....so that when you boot up it will not try looking for windows...when your at desktop just copy the data across or burn...

In the future when you reinstall windows always create a partition of say around 20g - 25g on which you install windows (c

so that when you upgrade all you have to do it delete that partition and reinstall windows on it

good luck...

Corasik · 10 Jul 2006 at 21:41

This has been posted so often.

If you upgrade your motherboard to a different brand/model, XP fails to load because it will still be configured to use the IDE/SATA drivers from the previous motherboard.

With the exception of SATA raid's, you can normally get around it by installing the Standard IDE controller driver over the top of the motherboard specific driver. But this has to be done before you perform the upgrade.

A fresh installation is not normally needed, except as I said in the case of Sata raids.

If you do a 'new' install, but let the setup overwrite your existing windows, you'll probably find that the majority of files your interested in will still be on the hard disk. Anything in /Windows would be lost, but unless you repartition, or reformat, everything else should remain.

Im not 100% sure, but if you have an OEM install disk, then you may have a problem, I seem to recall OEM disks dont permit overwriting an existing copy of windows.