Re: Windows keep rebooting after hardware upgrade

Thanks to every one who responded to my request for help. I really
appreciated it.

It seems that my problem was caused by the product activation as it went
away after I tried a "repair install" with the original CD. I never had a
chance to read what's on that BSOD as it never showed up again after the
repair install.

Now I am having a different problem of Windows booting much much slower. One
of the things I really liked about XP when I switched was its fast boot time.
It used to take ~20 seconds to get to the logon screen and 5 to 10 seconds to
complete the logon from there. I was able to lauch applications like IE in
less than a minute from the time I turned the PC on. And all these were on a
five-year-old Athlon 1 Ghz (yeah, it's so old that's before they even came
out with the 2000+ kind of rating) and slow RAM.

I now have an Athlon 64 2800+ with new PC3200 DDR2 RAM (same 512 MB). It
takes about two and half minutes to get to the logon screen. After I logon, I
could move the mouse around but it took a good 1 minute and half before I can
launch any application. This is really bizzar. Once logon completes, it seems
pretty fast. I just wonder what is going on.

I suspected it might be fragmentation of the system files because the
original install was on a fresh file system and the system files are probably
laid out nicely. I noticed the repair install deleted a whole bunch of files
and re-copied them. The HD was 80% full so I removed/uninstalled things to
make it 60% and defragged the drive. It still takes approximately the same
amount of time (~4 minutes vs. less then 1 before this saga).

I saw some threads in this forum about possible driver conflicts and/or
doing a clean reboot troubleshoot. I will try some of those and see if I can
get things close to where it was. If anybody has some suggestions, I would be
glad to hear about them too.

Thanks a lot.

Yen

"Yves Leclerc" wrote:

> This may not work since XP is now detecting a different motherboard than the
> one it was install on before. The "other' respond is only ways to fix the
> problem, because of XP Product Activation.
>
>
> "CentralCal" <lc74email-forums@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:29F64DAB-9BDF-4ECD-966C-5732004D6851@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >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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