hi again right i have discarded my old mobo & cpu (mobo was dead) i have gone and bought a winfast nf4uk8aa mobo amd athlon 64 processor 3200+ socket 939 a sapphire radeon x300 se pci express graphics card 512 ddr ram (my original) 160gb hdd model hd722516vlat80 (my original) have put it all together it runs but wont complete the load up it gets as far as verifing pool data trys to show the windows main logo screen then fails i have put in my windows disc and tried to boot from it, it wont does anyone have any suggestions for me thanks GB.
Is it set to boot from CD? If not then it won't be able to boot from the CD. To get your mobo to attempt to boot from the CD you'll have to look in the BIOS settings. Windows Probably can't boot because it's practically in a different computer, and doesn't have any of the drivers.
Agreed. Check your motherboard manual for exactly where, but the boot sequence is likely in the 'Advanced BIOS Setup' (or something similar) menu. See if you can get into Safe Mode (hit F8 right before Windows starts loading) and then remove everything from Device Manager to see if you can get in. Otherwise, you will have to reinstall Windows.
i can get into the boot menu and select it to boot from my cd-rom drive but it wont, f8 does not seem to do anything cant get to safe mode i can get into the bios setup can i get to safe mode there thanks GB
Try Download details: Windows XP Professional Utility: Setup Disks for Floppy Boot Install, might work! :unsure:
tried did not work can you think of anything else. as i surely could not be unlucky enough to get a second mobo that dont work
U mean to say that Booting from CD drive as a first boot is not working. If you have more than one CD/DVD drive then i suggest u remove one of them and then boot ur computer with XP CD inside as selected first boot device. You bought a new mobo so definately u have to reinstall the windows to make it working properly and then the chipset drivers and all...
