RE: Windows keep rebooting after hardware upgrade

I had a similar problem as far as the BSOD message going by and was helped by
Americantechie.I hope ithelps. Good luck.
If the BSOD message goes by too fast.......and you are in a boot loop,
If this is the case you can go into safemode and do the
following...

1. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
2. On the Advanced tab, click Settings under Startup and Recovery.
3. Clear the Automatically restart check box under System failure, and then
click OK. The error message should remain on the screen so that you can
record the error information.

This will at least stop you on the error message and give you a chance to
read it.


"SunnyLeo" wrote:

> In the quest of trying to quiet down my old PC, I accidentally burnt my CPU
> when putting on a heatsink incorrectly. Since it's fairly old, I decided to
> move on and get a new CPU, which requires a new motherboard and RAM. So
> basically I got a bunch of new hardware upgrade at the same time.
>
> The first time after the upgrade, I got to the XP Pro login screen and it
> said that I need to activate the copy of the Windows to use it. I recall the
> activation checks for hardware component so I decided to not activate it at
> that time as I was still planning to add other hardware upgrade. I shut the
> system down and went on to get the other hardware components. While doing
> this, I got a great deal on CPU/MB combo so I exchanged what I purchased last
> week with this new CPU/MB combo.
>
> After I putting in the new CPU/MB combo last night, Windows would just boot
> into a text screen telling me that the last boot was unsuccessful and asked
> me to choose between safe mode, safe mode with network, last known good
> configuration, etc. However, whatever I choose, it booted into a blue screen
> and rebooted itself. The blue screen lasted a fraction of a second and I
> couldn't read anything off of it. The system just cycle through this: asking
> me to choose what mode to boot, got into a blue screen that I couldn't read,
> and reboot.
>
> 1. How do I troubleshoot this?
> 2. Is there anyway to make the blue screen stay so I can do better
> troubleshooting? The pause key doesn't work as it passes so fast and I could
> never caught it at the right time.
> 3. Is it because of the hardware or CPU upgrade? I went through an old
> Athlon 1 Ghz to an Athlon 64 2800+. Could the new 64 bit CPU be part of this?
> 4. I have the original installation CD of my Win XP Pro? Can I use that to
> repair my system?
> 5. If re-install over the existing copy, will my application still work?
> 6. Do I need to re-activate my Win XP and Office XP? Will this hadware
> upgrade cause my system to be considered a new one and therefore, activation
> would fail?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Leo
.

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