Re: New motherboard..XP won't boot!

KT wrote:

I installed a new motherboard, a new cpu, and new memory, kept all the same drives, and now XP SP2 won't boot, safe or normal,saying due to hardware change; it just keeps rebooting after that screen. Bios sees all the drives properly, and I went over all the settings in the new bios, and I can access the C: drive and read files from it. I can pull out the C: drive and put it in another computer that I built using the old motherboard,cpu and memory in and it boots fine! I really don't want to format and reinstall windows if I can avoid it! Any ideas?

Do a repair install. You can't change the hardware like that and expect XP to boot. See this link.

http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm


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