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First of, hello everyone. I am new to the forum. I was browsing forums and chose this one because of all the help everyone has been giving. ok, so here's the problem. I just recently upgraded my computer.
I have my old hard drives in there connected through ribbon. When I boot it up, it takes a while, loads up and then all of a sudden, a quick bluescreen pops up (for like a brief second) and then, shuts down, and restarts itself again. Anyone have any ideas or know how to work this? I am currently running Windows XP as my OS. This is a big change for me, because I used to have an Intel Pentium 4 2.8gHz, and had it for a good 6 - 7 years possibly. Now I switched up to AMD and the new SLI Ready / Duo Core technology.
Sava700 wrote:are you trying to run more than 1 hard drive?
i was trying to run my main hard drive only, was running only 1. now connected both, didn't try that one yet. i'm just worried about losing any files, im hearing some people say that their hard drives crash with a problem like this. so i'm a little iffy, i didn't back up all my files on the hard drive. any idea?
Izzo wrote:boot into safe mode ....to disable automatic restart option go to control panel > system > advanced > startup and recovery > uncheck automatic restart
...reboot ...take notes of error or check event log...
what did you upgrade besides the CPU? ...motherboard? Is it a fresh hard drive with OS recently installed?
i basically upgraded everything, CPU, MoBo, Video Card. the hard drive was from my previous system. It has WinXP OS in it already. My cousin was telling me it could be because it still holds drivers from my previous hardware, so would running in safe mode still allow me to get through even though it holds old Drivers from my previous system rather than the new one?
Chances are you'll have driver issues until you reformat and reinstall the operating system. It may have drivers for your old hardware but did you install drivers for your new hardware ..specifically the motherboard?
If I were you I'd backup everything I needed while I could and reformat and reinstall XP.
doh! that's what i was waiting to hear and what i didn't want to hear. heh. Yeah i didn't install drivers to the HD. I was wondering if this would work...
put my old system and hardware in another tower, back up all the files (just in case), uninstall drivers from that hard drive, insert the CD for my new driver installations, take the HD and install back to the new system, and run it from there. would that work? or it would have to be reformatted and fresh install? if that's the case, i might as well give that hard drive to my parents as well since it has all the drivers and i will be updating their computer basically with all my old parts to theirs. if that works, i'll stick to it, if not, i'm thinking about starting fresh with a new hard drive. heh. let me know if it'll fix it up. thanks
for best performance I'd wipe the drive and start over...if you have a spare drive laying around install XP on that one and slave the old into the drive and back up that way I s'pose. *shrug*
Izzo wrote:for best performance I'd wipe the drive and start over...if you have a spare drive laying around install XP on that one and slave the old into the drive and back up that way I s'pose. *shrug*
hmm, i guess so. hmm, i may look into buying another drive and install vista to that one, and perhaps in the future use another drive for XP. for now, i'll keep all my things together along with the old system and back up everything i need to my external hard drive to switch over sometime soon. thanks for the help. off to topic, whats the scoop with the WD Raptor? i'm thinking about getting that one if i do get a hard drive.
phino wrote:hmm, i guess so. hmm, i may look into buying another drive and install vista to that one, and perhaps in the future use another drive for XP. for now, i'll keep all my things together along with the old system and back up everything i need to my external hard drive to switch over sometime soon. thanks for the help. off to topic, whats the scoop with the WD Raptor? i'm thinking about getting that one if i do get a hard drive.
you could always dual boot
Raptors are nice....just a faster spinning drive.....depends on who you ask if they're worth the cost.
saw the Raptor X 150gb for $199.99. also yeah, dual boot is the way to go for me, =) that's what i was thinking about doing. but i'm going to need to back up everything i have on my old drives. heh. good looking out.
When you "upgrade" your hardware...especially when you go to a new motherboard...it's best to start with a clean install of the operating system. Your current install, if you moved it from an Intel chipset system, to an nForce based system..that's an entirely different motherboard chipset...so your previous install of Windows has all the drivers from your old system, which makes it often buggy. If you have entirely different hard drive controllers....you'll often get a blue screen at some point during bootup.
Yes...technically it's possible to install the latest drivers for your new mobo on top of the old install..and get a system that runs "OK"..but usually...it's flakey. If you move from one motherboard to another that has the same chipset..or at least a similar chipset..chances are more likely for a 1/2 decent running system..but really..a clean install is the best choice for a top running system.
If you can boot into safe mode with your current setup...you may be able to copy the "data" you need to your second hard drive..then once that's been saved..wipe your system drive and do a clean install.
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I have done what you are trying with 50/50 results. Somtimes I was able to get the drive from teh old PC to boot and load XP and start updating drivers other times It would crash and reboot. For me a few system it was the vid card. I actually was able to swap my old vid card to get it to boot and load drivers.
Best advice is to Buy a drive for a fresh install. System will be faster and more realiable than if you get that other drive working. Get the system up and running with the new drive then plug in the drive with you files. Transfer to the new drive and then you can format the old drive and use it for storage.
What type of files are you concerned about? Documents and pics or installed proggys ?? I just ask becuase if its docs and pics do like we mentioned New drive with fresh OS and tx files(docs and pics) to main drive. If its installed files then you stil may be out of luck. System may be buggy and sluggish if you get lucky and get the new system to boot with the old drive.
k, havn't had time to post what happened afterwards. but i went out, bought myself a new hard drive, and started from scratch like a lot of people has told me. =) thanks for the input everyone.
ok, so here's the problem. I just recently upgraded my computer.
