- Sep 4, 2004
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I'm in the process of upgrading my mother's computer, and have decided (with the help of lovely people from the HH boards ) that a good way to do it would be to give her my current core items and upgrade my stuff. I love this idea!
ok, so last night I took all of my drives and my ram out of my system and replaced them with the parts that my mother had in her system. my motherboard, cpu, and power supply all stayed in the system that I plan on giving her. I get everthing set up and such, or so I think, and I try turning it on. Bios runs and memory tests work, but after that I get the "Sorry for the inconvienence, but windows could not start properly." It tells me that this could be do to new hardware or software (which makes total sense), and then asks me to choose one of several options: Boot in Safe Mode, Boot to Dos, Boot using network ??? (this one I didn't try cause I didn't think it could possibly be the problem), Use last known good settings, or start windows normally. I've tried all but the option convering networking. none of them get me into windows. as soon as I choose one, the screen goes black for a couple seconds, then it flashes what looks like a blue screen of death (but it's so fast you can't read it), then my computer restarts.
so I guess my question is: when changing a cpu and motherboard, is there anything I need to install or run so that my hard drive has the necessary info to use the new hardware? do I need a boot disc of sorts to make it work this first time?
and that's just half the problem.
I bought a new motherboard and case for myself, and have installed everything. cpu is an amd mobile 2500+. Motherboard is a DFI Infinity. ram is ocz el dual 256
when I start this baby up....I get nothing. my fans turn on, and lights on the motherboard turn on, but I get no sounds at all. so did I install the cpu wrong? I just don't get it.
so basically I'm looking for any thoughts you guys might have. please dont' assume anything, ask anything that comes to mind. I've only ever built one other computer, and that was awhile ago, so I realy have very little idea what I'm doing
ok, so last night I took all of my drives and my ram out of my system and replaced them with the parts that my mother had in her system. my motherboard, cpu, and power supply all stayed in the system that I plan on giving her. I get everthing set up and such, or so I think, and I try turning it on. Bios runs and memory tests work, but after that I get the "Sorry for the inconvienence, but windows could not start properly." It tells me that this could be do to new hardware or software (which makes total sense), and then asks me to choose one of several options: Boot in Safe Mode, Boot to Dos, Boot using network ??? (this one I didn't try cause I didn't think it could possibly be the problem), Use last known good settings, or start windows normally. I've tried all but the option convering networking. none of them get me into windows. as soon as I choose one, the screen goes black for a couple seconds, then it flashes what looks like a blue screen of death (but it's so fast you can't read it), then my computer restarts.
so I guess my question is: when changing a cpu and motherboard, is there anything I need to install or run so that my hard drive has the necessary info to use the new hardware? do I need a boot disc of sorts to make it work this first time?
and that's just half the problem.
I bought a new motherboard and case for myself, and have installed everything. cpu is an amd mobile 2500+. Motherboard is a DFI Infinity. ram is ocz el dual 256
when I start this baby up....I get nothing. my fans turn on, and lights on the motherboard turn on, but I get no sounds at all. so did I install the cpu wrong? I just don't get it.
so basically I'm looking for any thoughts you guys might have. please dont' assume anything, ask anything that comes to mind. I've only ever built one other computer, and that was awhile ago, so I realy have very little idea what I'm doing