Masterfinn 0 Posted October 3, 2002 A freind of mine just bought a new mobo and chip and asked me install everything for them.. its an older asus mb a K7V 133 to be exact and they got a slot 1 amd 900mhz cpu with it.. i set all jumpers on the mb fine as i have done that many times.. istalled all periferalls fine as well. The problem come in, when he hooks up his old hard drive with winxp on it that worked fine.. when the computer boots up .. it finds everything good, but as soon as the bios screen goes away is about to start windows it comes up with a blue screen of death.. saying something about check newlly installed harddisks for errors and gives an error code.. but ya.. we know that the drive is fine as it was working on the other mb and cpu just like 15min prior to the new stuff. I did some work on computers that had this type of problem before.. and what we found to be the problem was a video error.. so thats what i was think was going on so i tried to place a new video card in and still nothing.. the thing is the two video cards we tried were both PCI.. i dont know if this is the issue.. is it? If i have to ill do a reformat onthe drive and reinstall windows, but i was hopeing there was another way around that... anyways, any ideas would be great thanx, Masterfinn Share this post Link to post
CUViper 0 Posted October 3, 2002 Whenever you change a motherboard, there are too many driver changes for you to just boot up again right away. But you don't necessarily have to reformat - you can just "refresh" your installation. Just boot off the XP CD and let it run through the repair process. (not the repair console, that is different...) Share this post Link to post
Brian Frank 0 Posted October 3, 2002 However, I've not had real good luck trying that, so I advocate doing a clean install in the event of a motherboard swap---unless you're switching boards with the EXACT same chipset. Share this post Link to post
Masterfinn 0 Posted October 3, 2002 Ya, i tried to boot from cd and do a repair,but no luck... i think its best just do the clean install....ohwell.. i just wish i knew the prob.. Thanx, anyways Masterfinn Share this post Link to post
