Re: New Mobo and Processor

From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:08:38 -0500

Are you removing the CD or pressing "any key" to continue
booting from the hard drive? 

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<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:58ba01c4748a$a2e14e40$a601280a@phx.gbl...
| Thanks for the quick response,
|
| Been there, done that (more than once). Seems to go
| through the process okay ie files etc seem to transfer
| okay. The next screen says Windows restarting..... or
| windows in now restarting...... I can not remember
| excactly I am currently at work. I think the next screen
| should be the screen that gives you the expected time for
| the install etc and has the green flashing boxes in the
| bottom right. It never gets this far and reboots the
| system,
|
| Thanks in advance
|
|
|
|
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Make sure you did the repair operation correctly.  You
| should have
| >booted off the XP CD, chosen Install first, then R to
| Repair. It should
| >have repaired itself, then you remove the CD and let it
| boot back to
| >Windows. Once everything is correct, you just set the
| first boot device
| >back to your HD in the BIOS.
| >
| >----
| >Nathan McNulty
| >
| >anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
| >> OS Windows XP Home SP1 (and all updates)
| >>
| >> I have just installed a new PC Chips Motherboard DDR
| 266
| >> and an AMD Athlon XP 2400 in my computer. On rebooting
| >> the machine the system stalled at stalled. I restarted
| >> and went to safe mode. System stalled at MUP.SYS but I
| >> assume that it may have been the next setting that
| caused
| >> the problem.
| >>
| >> I tried a repair install from the booting from the
| >> Windows XP CD. It went through the process until it
| came
| >> to the "windows is not starting........." (or
| restarting
| >> can not remember) screen and then the system reboots.
| >> This goes on continually until I turn the power off.
| >>
| >> If i try to intervene by pressing F8 while booting and
| go
| >> to safe mode it gets as far as the safe mode screen
| with
| >> safe mode written at the top and the bottom, then it
| >> reboots the system.
| >>
| >> Please help. I have 4 user accounts and seperate PST
| >> files etc set up in outlook and DO NOT want to do a
| fresh
| >> install.
| >>
| >> Please help. Any other information you require just
| ask.
| >.
| >

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