WinXP won't boot after new motherboard, CPU, and video card

[David]

I just did this the other day. New mother board in one
computer, old motherboard moved to different system. Both
did as you discribed. Here is the fix:
Reboot to your XP cdrom disk. It will go through to where
it says to repair or install windows. Choose install and
then it will stop again and ask if you want to repair or
do a clean install. Choose repair. It will continue
loading like it is a new install but all your previous
setting will be intact. Again, choose repair the second
time it ask and you will get your system repaired.
It seem XP does not like these major changes without
rewriting the system files around the new motherboard.

Good luck,
Dave
>-----Original Message-----
>I had a WinXP Pro SP1 running just fine (P3 700, Voodoo3
video, and
>128x3 RAM). Tonight, I installed a new motherboard, P4
2.4ghz, new
>nVidia video card, and pulled one of the 128 DIMMS out so
it now has
>128x2 RAM. When it turns on, it recognizes the new video
card, it
>sees 256MB RAM, and it sees the hyperthreaded CPU, but
once it starts
>to boot into WinXP (XP black-boot screen), I see a blue
screen flash
>and then it reboots itself. I've tried booting in
safemode (which
>always seems to hang on the driver 'mup.sys' and then
reboot) but it
>reboots itself, I've tried last known hardware config...
but nothing
>works.
>
>I'd ~like~ to get this running WITHOUT having to
reinstall the OS and
>all the programs, but at this point I'm not seeing any
other options
>(thankfully I use roaming profiles so my settings and
such will be
>preserved). Any ideas?
>
>-AC
>.
>

[Andrew Connell]

Thanks for the replies... I thought that's all I had to do. I tried both
repair options and let both complete fully. Unfortunately, neither worked
as I kept getting the same problem. So, this mornign I slicked the drive
and started with a clean install. Everything is running fine now (course
it's off now until I do all the hotfixes). Looks like a fun evening ahead
of me full of reinstalls. Thank goodness the NFL seasons starts tonight!

-AC

"David" > wrote in message
...
> I just did this the other day. New mother board in one
> computer, old motherboard moved to different system. Both
> did as you discribed. Here is the fix:
> Reboot to your XP cdrom disk. It will go through to where
> it says to repair or install windows. Choose install and
> then it will stop again and ask if you want to repair or
> do a clean install. Choose repair. It will continue
> loading like it is a new install but all your previous
> setting will be intact. Again, choose repair the second
> time it ask and you will get your system repaired.
> It seem XP does not like these major changes without
> rewriting the system files around the new motherboard.
>
> Good luck,
> Dave
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I had a WinXP Pro SP1 running just fine (P3 700, Voodoo3
> video, and
> >128x3 RAM). Tonight, I installed a new motherboard, P4
> 2.4ghz, new
> >nVidia video card, and pulled one of the 128 DIMMS out so
> it now has
> >128x2 RAM. When it turns on, it recognizes the new video
> card, it
> >sees 256MB RAM, and it sees the hyperthreaded CPU, but
> once it starts
> >to boot into WinXP (XP black-boot screen), I see a blue
> screen flash
> >and then it reboots itself. I've tried booting in
> safemode (which
> >always seems to hang on the driver 'mup.sys' and then
> reboot) but it
> >reboots itself, I've tried last known hardware config...
> but nothing
> >works.
> >
> >I'd ~like~ to get this running WITHOUT having to
> reinstall the OS and
> >all the programs, but at this point I'm not seeing any
> other options
> >(thankfully I use roaming profiles so my settings and
> such will be
> >preserved). Any ideas?
> >
> >-AC
> >.
> >