Mother board change

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I changed to a new motherboard, Intel DP45SG with 4g DDR3 Ram, the old one
died. All my drives are SATA, only the DVD was IDE. No big deal got a SATA
DVD and an additional 1T SATA drive to eliminate two of the smaller ones.



After the change, he system would not boot and REPAIR would not fix it.



I disconnected the old drives and attempted a clean install on the 1T derive
and it would just go past the EULE and the blue screen of dead appeared with
this message: PFN_list_Corrupt.



When I tried to install Vista, I got to the same point with: 0XE0000100



Both programs are retail versions and not branded.



Any suggestion?
 
You said REPAIR did not fix it - did the repair install even start? Or did
it not finish? Or it did its thing but did not successfully reboot to
Wndows? Or what?

Also, what version of Windows?
 
em_CT said:
I changed to a new motherboard, Intel DP45SG with 4g DDR3 Ram, the old one
died. All my drives are SATA, only the DVD was IDE. No big deal got a SATA
DVD and an additional 1T SATA drive to eliminate two of the smaller ones.



After the change, he system would not boot and REPAIR would not fix it.



I disconnected the old drives and attempted a clean install on the 1T derive
and it would just go past the EULE and the blue screen of dead appeared with
this message: PFN_list_Corrupt.



When I tried to install Vista, I got to the same point with: 0XE0000100



Both programs are retail versions and not branded.



Any suggestion?
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For both Vista and XP you get an option early on in the installation asking
if you want to install additional drivers.
at that point you'd need to install the SATA drivers.

XP would need them on a floppy
but Vista also can support a USB stick or cd/dvd

BTW: It's often advised to run the installer with a lesser amount of
RAM...such as 2 gigs

then if successful, install the remained of the RAM
 
Jerry said:
You said REPAIR did not fix it - did the repair install even start? >>>
Yes
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Or did it not finish? Or it did its thing but did not successfully reboot to
Wndows? >>> It finished, but would start, the computer just rebooted
continuously
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Or what?
 
em_CT said:
I changed to a new motherboard, Intel DP45SG with 4g DDR3 Ram, the old
one died. All my drives are SATA, only the DVD was IDE. No big deal got
a SATA DVD and an additional 1T SATA drive to eliminate two of the
smaller ones.

After the change, he system would not boot and REPAIR would not fix it.

I disconnected the old drives and attempted a clean install on the 1T
derive and it would just go past the EULE and the blue screen of dead
appeared with this message: PFN_list_Corrupt.

When I tried to install Vista, I got to the same point with: 0XE0000100

Both programs are retail versions and not branded.

Any suggestion?
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Did you bother to test the memory on the motherboard ?

I use memtest86+ from memtest.org . The memtest program is
also a boot time option on a Knoppix LiveCD, so you can
load the Knoppix CD, type "memtest" at the prompt, and
it'll run memtest from there.

My guess is, your memory is not configured properly (and
it might not be your fault). Some motherboard BIOSes are
not very mature, when it comes to setting up memory. I've
seen comments to suggest that 2GB sticks seem to be configured
less optimally than 1GB sticks. I've even run into people,
who after turning the memory clock way down, still get errors.

In some cases, the memory error rate is very low, and
a slight increase in the Vdimm setting, makes the
memory error free.

A second test I like, is once I've booted my Knoppix disk,
I download Prime95 from mersenne.org and run the "torture
test". (Download the Linux version.) If the torture test
will run for four hours, without detecting an error, then
and only then, do I start work with my Windows disk.

I completed a motherboard upgrade a bit more than a week
ago, and the upgrade was seamless, because of the testing
before booting Windows.

Paul
 
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