New everything, Old hard drive, No windows xp home
- From: "mikefscm" <mikefscm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:01:02 -0700
After fruitless attempts to repair my old computer I decided to start from
scratch.
I purchased a new case with a power supply, then i got a new mother board
specifically the MSI K7N2 Delta - L Ultra400/SPP . After installing it in
the new case i thought i would use all my old hardware. WRONG. Different Pin
Socket. Back to the store to get a new Prossesor. With help in selection i
purchased the AMD AXP AXDA3200+ made by Barton. FSB 400, 0.13 u AMD CPU 512k
L2. Thinking ahead I said to me, with all this new power and speed i better
go ahead and upgrade my memory so it could keep up. Got a Dual Channel Module
from Geil, DDR 512MB 3200 DUAL GE (2X256MB) SPEED 400 Mhz. Hooked all that up
and went to plug in the periiphrials , oh oh no where to plug in the moniter.
Back to the store for a Gainward MX4000 64MB 8x - 4x APG nVIIA. All that is
now left from my old system is the hard drive with my files and windows
pre-installed software upgraded from M.E. to XP Home.
At boot up is said it could not find operating system. Put in the xp
upgrade disk and off it went. till i get to three choices. 1. install xp home
2. repair xp home. 3 quit
option 1 goes through a bunch of set up and ends up telling me there is no
previous copy of windows and to insert the windows full version disk, which
since all the computers i have had were preloaded with windows. option 2
deadends asking me for my administrators password. none of my passwords work
and i end uip at the dos prompt with no direction on where to go from there,
although i have tried many. The web site based help for all these new parts
seem to point toward a bios problem. Which i have explored to the extend of
my knowledge, ability, or bravery. The other night after trying some other
avenues i kept ending up int the boot sequence with Media test failure, check
cable / Exiting Nvidia boot agent / DISK_BOOT_FAILURE Made it past that
and got to a screen asking me which operating system i wanted to use listing
2 choices both of which were the same. Tring both of them ends in a message
about a corrupt or missing file HAL.DLL
I found the file in my computer at work i Installed my home drive as a slave
and copied the file from one hard drive to the other. This is where i am
stuck now be cause it still tells me the file is mising or corrupted. I`m
getting a pretty big bruise from banging my head against the wall. I hope
someone out there can help me with this. I`m Going Insane
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