The reason XP would not start is because you had all new parts and under those circumstances a "repair" installation woul have solved your problem.Now I would suggest that you hook your old HD up and use it as a slave.
OR....you could do that repair installation with the old drive rehooked as the primary drive and your new HD hooked as a slave
XP REPAIR ..............................................................................
Boot from the CD or you can insert the CD while at the windows desktop but
when the setup screen appears, exit setup and reboot. If your system is set
to be able to boot from the CD, it should detect the disk and give a brief
message, during the boot up, if you wish to boot from the CD press any key.
Once you have pressed a key, setup should begin. You will see a reference
asking if you need to load special drivers and another notice that if you
wish to begin the ASR (Automatic Recovery Console) depress F2. Just let
setup run past all of that. It will continue to load files and drivers.
Then it will bring you to a screen. Eventually, you will come to a screen
with the option to (1) setup Windows or (2) Repair Windows Installation
using the Recovery console.
The first option, to setup Windows is the one you want and requires you to
press enter. When asked, press F8 to accept the end user agreement. Setup
will then search for previous versions of Windows. Upon finding your
version, it will ask if you wish to Repair your current installation or
install fresh. Press R, that will run a repair installation. From there
on, follow the screens.
peter
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| > > > I recently decided to rebuild my system and install a new asus a7n8x
| > > > motherboard into my machine. I have an AMD Athlon 2200 , 512mb ddr ram
| > > > (dont know all the specs),an antec case ( i belive it is model number
| > > > plus 1080amg) , and an 80 gig hardrive. I know all of the components
| > > > work as they were in my previous system and running fine..The only
| > > > change that was made to the system is the motherboard.
| > > >
| > > > My problem is that after i hooked up all the components , my sytem
| > > > refused to boot up, ......no fans spinning no hard drive
| > > > spinning...nothing!!! I checked all my connections from the case to
| > > > the board as i figured tha would be the problem and tried to start it
| > > > up...again nothing......I am getting power to the board because the
| > > > standby power light is on.....but it just wont turn over. Has anyone
| > > > else experienced this problem and if so what did you do to fix /
| > > > troubleshoot??????
| > > >
| > > > If anyone out there can help i would really appreciate it!!!!
| > >
| > > I'm going to assume that you basically have working hardware (even the
| > > ASUS board. Here are some things to consider:
| > >
| > > 1- Your power supply is collapsing on one or more voltage rails. My
| > > guess is the 3.3 volt rail. Why? New motherboard, heavier power
| > > demand. Check to see if the fan in your power supply is spinning. If
| > > not, then the power supply has shut down.
| > My power supply is 500 watts and was working a few days ago , would
| > changing the board make it crap out?? If the ps is no longer working ,
| > is there anything i can do to try and fix it so that i dont have to
| > buy a new one...
| >
| > > 2- Short circuit to the case. This is doubtful, but possible. Why? You
| > > said the standby power light is on. That's not definitive, but
| > > generally indicates that you don't have a short. It's worth checking
| > > by removing the mobo and power supply from the case and try turning it
| > > on on an insulated table top.
| > > 3- Improperly inserted the CPU. This will give you the symptoms you
| > > describe, especially if it is rotated 90 degrees. Also, it is possible
| > > that you bent a pin, however, this would not account for no turn-on
| > > power.
| > > 4- CPU fan plugged into the wrong connector. Unless the chipset sees
| > > the fan rotating, it shuts down power to the board to protect the CPU.
| > > Make sure that the fan is plugged into the correct connector.
| > >
| > > Good luck.
| >
| > Im going to look into all the suggestions that you have posted and
| > post my findings........thanks for the help!!!
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| To anyine who may read this ...............
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| the solution was that i had placed my cpu fan on backwards and since
| the cpu fan wouyldnt start while it was on backwards the whole system
| wouldnt power up.After i solved that problem, i found myself with
| another problem......windows wouldnt start up. I was getting the win
| xp splash screen for a second and then my machine would reboot and
| tell me that windows was unable to boot properly because of a hardware
| change. I bought a new hd and did a fresh install and now the system
| works great , but i am still not able to retrieve the info of of my
| old hard drive....im not about to format it and lose everything i have
| on there. If any one has any suggestions on how i could retrieve the
| info off of my drive please post it
|
| Thanks
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