Windows Will Not Load

Lex-UK · 17 Mar 2006 at 18:45

I have recently upgraded my motherboard to the Gigabyte GA-8N-SLi Royal and after installing windows running the Nvidia SATA driver, booting fine, all needed drivers installed, updated windows at least 35 critical updates, restarted after installation complete but windows will not boot at all, after the "verify DMI Pool Data" message there is a black screen, if i press F8 to bring up those option, and choose any of them, it goes to which OS i want to start and after hitting enter it freezes. if i try to boot from the Windows CD it freezes on the "Setup up is checking your hardware configuration"

System:
Gigabyte Ga-8N-Sli Royal, Bios Version F5
P4 3.6
DDR2 667 2GB
250 SATAII
ATI x850XT 256mb

and of course Windows XP Home.

Any help would be grately appreciated, its annoying how you can only install or repair windows so many times before it tells you you dome it too many times.

thanks
Lex

Lex-UK · 18 Mar 2006 at 12:29

brilliant, thanks! its working now, must have been something in the BIOS, and i also changed the sockets the HDD's are connected to. it appears to have been something else to do with RAID,probably would have been easier to just go RAID instead. Thanks again, i nearly gave up on gigabyte.

Lex-UK · 18 Mar 2006 at 14:08

i had got it working but after a few updates (windows media player, rebooted fine,) then Graphics Driver didnt boot it takes a few attempts of changing a couple of things in he bios about raid to get it going again, is it worth repairing windows? i have it working again but i am not sure if it will give up anytime i reboot or turn my machine on.

edit:
Also i have noticed that windows gave my storage HDD the letter C but gave the HDD that winodws installed on F: i changed the storage one to G so it comes after the bootable one.

Lex-UK · 18 Mar 2006 at 17:34

is there many bugs in x64 and will x32 programs run on it fine?

Lex-UK · 19 Mar 2006 at 16:46

Thanks for that, maybe i'll wait until Vista is about i noticed that netgear doesnt do x64 drivers untill Vista. i'll stick with this installation as it is working fine just the drive letters and if i was to install again, it would probably tell me i have installed windows too many times and need a new key.