xp wont start

[madmurg]

after fitting a new motherboard cpu and video card, my windows xp will
not start. I swapped the original hard drive with xp installed, which was
starting fine.but since swapping the new motherboard and bits it will not
get past the black boot up screens. all it does is constantly restart. I
have tried safe mode and it still does the same. I put the hard drive back
in my old pc and it starts fine. am I missing something?

 

[Dr Teeth]

after fitting a new motherboard cpu and video card, my windows xp will
not start. I swapped the original hard drive with xp installed, which was
starting fine.but since swapping the new motherboard and bits it will not
get past the black boot up screens. all it does is constantly restart. I
have tried safe mode and it still does the same. I put the hard drive back
in my old pc and it starts fine. am I missing something?

You should have changed the IDE controller to 'standard' before
upgrading. It's either a complete reinstall or reassembling your old
PC and changing the IDE controller in device manager.

I have just upgraded my m/b, CPU etc and have not had any probs with
my two XP partitions.


Cheers,

Guy

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