Troubleshooting an upgraded system

[Sewellyboy]

Greetings,

I recently changed out a motherboard on an old computer. I upgraded to a gigabyte EP45-UD3P, and I threw in a C2D E5200 to run the system. I kept my old hard drive, and I assumed that by just plugging in the old hard drive into the new motherboard, everything would boot up as normal, just a bit faster.

When my computer starts, the windows screen comes up and states that windows was shut down improperly and asks if I want to start in Safe mode/normal mode/ETC..... I try the different modes, and I still can't get the computer to start. It loads the bios startup screen, then proceeds to the safemode window. I'll get my windows disks later and try to repair windows, I was just hoping somebody had a quick answer as to what was going wrong?? The only connection I changed on my hard drive, is instead of connecting it with the 4 pin power cable, I connected it with the newer flat power connector found on the newer power supplies (I upgraded the power supply as well).

Any Ideas why windows won't start?? I know the reasons are probably too many to list, I was just hoping maybe there was a quick list of todo's I should double check, or if I need to repair windows with the windows disks??

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[Kraeoss]

you will have to reinstall windows due to the fact you changed your motherboard or jsut use the power connector relevant to the hard drive power socket.....

 

[mpilchfamily]

Windows is tied into the motherboard. When it installs it install the drivers needed to operate with that board. It is extreamly hard to go in and find all of the dirvers and stuff involved so you can clean them out and install those needed fro the new board. Most of the time you can't get it up and working and if you do you'll still have some issues with it. Its always best to performa fresh install when the motherboard is changed out. Its also not a bad idea to performa a fresh install every year or so to help keep the system running at optimal performance. Windows gets cluttered and slowed down with junk over time.

 

[Sewellyboy]

I really appreciate the help from both of you. I'll reinstall windows and see how that works.

 

[moonsite]

Have to agree with mpilchfamily. In older version of windows, it was possible to remove most of the driver that is related to the motherboard and then swap out the motherboard. But with the new versions of Windows it is harder, especially with the activation issue and such.
Best way is just to do a complete brand new install of Windows so that it won't be so clutter.

 

[RebateMonger]

You didn't really give enough information to say what it'd take to get Windows booting again with other than a Repair Install or a full Install. Vista or XP? SATA or IDE hard drives?