New motherboard causes Blue Screen

[Chris White]

I installed a new motherboard in a computer running XP Home w all updates.

The computer Blue Screened with a 0x0000007E.

I booted into Safe Mode and installed all of the drivers for the new
motherboard(USB/Video etc)

Reboot and get the same Blue Screen

Reboot into Safe Mode and it says I have to Activate and that I cannot do it
in Safe Mode.

I guess I should have tracked down the offending drivers/hardware before
installing all of the new ones, but what do I do now?

 

[Chris White]

I'll try the BIOS, but cannot make any changes to my XP setup because I
cannot get in.

 

[sgopus]

Try doing a repair install first, generally when replacing a MB, the best
thing to do is not to boot to the HD first thing, boot to the install cd and
perform a repair install.
isolate your hardware drivers ie make backups first.

 

[PD43]

I'll try the BIOS, but cannot make any changes to my XP setup because I
cannot get in.

Make SURE that you're not playing around with overclocking.

If there is a setting in the BIOS to set everything to "safe"
settings, do that.

 

[Alias]

Make SURE that you're not playing around with overclocking.

If there is a setting in the BIOS to set everything to "safe"
settings, do that.

Not if you have on board audio and video and also happen to have an
audio card and a video card. Same for a NIC.

Alias

 

[Bruce.]

Try doing a repair install first, generally when replacing a MB, the best
thing to do is not to boot to the HD first thing, boot to the install cd
and
perform a repair install.
isolate your hardware drivers ie make backups first.

Yes, a repair install is his next best step.

I just did a major upgrade of almost all components and followed the XP
procedure here and it worked perfectly.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824125/en-us

Bruce.

 

[Chris White]

I did a repair and got the same error after reboot.

I'm still stuck, I might just have to reinstall everything.