Endless loop on boot

[RealGomer]

I finished building a replacement PC as the mobo on the other was slowly
dying. I took the same SATA drive from the old system and installed it in the
new system. In both, obviously, the SATA drive was the boot / C: drive.

When I start up the new box, BIOS sees the SATA drive fine. When Windows
starts, the splash screen shows, disappears, and some BSOD error screen
flashes by and the pc reboots.

I didn't change any of the default BIOS settings. What next? I really don't
feel like reinstalling 80+ GB of apps to fix the problem.

 

[Rich Barry]

If your replacement MB was not the same or very similar to the one
that was dying the OS on the drive is looking for all the old MB drivers.
What would be best is a clean install of
WinXP. Having said that you can try a Repair Install. Check at Mike's
site for more info

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

 

[John John - MVP]

Go in the BIOS and set the SATA drive to IDE mode and try it again. If
Windows boots install the SATA and motherboard drivers then return the
SATA option back to where they were in the BIOS and see if things
improve. Most often when changing the motherboard a repair install is
required. Also, you can tap the F8 key when the computer boots and
change the Automatically Restart on System failure option, this will
cause Windows to halt on the BSOD and you may be able to get useful
information in the bugcheck error message.

John

 

[Bill Liddell]

I have the identical problem excepting my drive is IDE. I changed the boot
on failure option and see the BSOD now: "0x0000007E (0x0000005, 0xBA278750,
0xBA4CB42C, 0xBA4CB128)".

There is no further text entry or named driver or file.

I changed from a Asus mobo with Intel P4 to an MSI with an AMD Phenom when
the Asus failed. After getting past DOA video card problem it POSTed fine,
recognized all the drives in BIOS. On first boot it did the "loop" and I was
advised to follow the "replacing motherboard" KB Article on this, which of
course recommends a repair install. I did this but setup apparentl fails to
complete and I get the splash screen and then a system halt with that above
message.

I am avoiding a fresh install option for data retention reasons.

I'm stumped...

Thanks...