Setup hangs after upgrading hardware

[Peregrine5]

Recently, my power supply and motherboard both died. So,
I replaced the old 300W with a 350W and got a new
motherboard, processor, and RAM as well.

Here's what I was running:

Athlon Thunderbird 1.2 GHz
Asus A7V133 (Via KT133A)
512 MB PC133 RAM
nVidia GeForce3 Ti 200
Maxtor 20GB, WDC 100GB
Windows XP Pro SP1
All WinXP updates applied (as of mid-December)

I upgraded to:
Athlon XP Barton 2600+ 512K L2
MSI K7N2 Delta-L (nVidia nForce2 Ultra 400)
512MB DDR400 PC3200 RAM (single stick)
(everything else the same)

All the hardware appears to work fine, but I can't get
into Windows.

When I try load normally, it shows the logo screen and
then restarts, doing this over anbd over again. If I try
to use Safe Mode, it goes along until after loading
Mup.sys, then resets the same way.

I have Recovery Console installed, but I also cannot get
into that. After it asks which Windows installation I'd
like to repair and selecting it, the program freezes.

So, I decided I needed to reinstall Windows, booting from
the CD. Before that, I tried the option to repair an
installation, but that just brought me back to Recovery
Console, with the same problem.

I tried to reinstall Windows off the CD, but when it gets
past the EULA screen and begins to search for
previously installed versions it freezes. I'm aware that
XP is picky about hardware changes, but I don't know why
it won't let me run setup.

I have been able to use a boot disk to get a command
prompt, but had no ideas of what to do with it.

I'm at a bit of a loss what to do now other than wipe the
drive and start fresh, but it would be nice to avoid that
if possible. I'd appreciate any advice anyone has on
this issue. Thank you.

 

[Guest]

I suspect wiping your drive will accomplish nothing.

Do you have another drive you can try in its place?

There are a couple of things that might cause it. The first one I will trot out is the one that is causing me the exact same thing right now. I bought two fancy new Gigabyte 7VT600-1394s. Both of them would boot part way through the bios portion, then reset, over and over.

Well, in swaping thing s around I got one to fire up, all the way into Windows 2000. There my BCM Health Monitor went into alert, telling me my -5 and -12 voltages were out of limits, swining low.


So I experimented and found that one of the three power supplies will fire up, to the system health alert.
I called Gigabyte and was told that I needed a 400 watt supply. I bought one this eveing, even thought its -5 and -12 volts are rated at only .5A like the rest. It did not good. It is another one where they run in circles.
But by changing out the supplies to the ONE, I can fire up. That leads me to think the boards are pulling too much juice on the minus voltages, even though the MB mfg. won't admit it.

The next is installed drivers. I have some motherboard that refuse to fire up Win NT because the drivers particular for their motherboard isn't already installed. And I can't install them without NT firing up. But what I get there is the blue screen of death, so I lean toward my first conjecture.

And hey, if anyone else out there has a better idea, I'm ready for the answer too.

Andy hey, come on guys. I've been here answering questions for two hours now waiting for someone to suggest something for my problem of the lost CD drives. I posted it in General about two hours ago, and gee, folks pose questions, but few are willing to help.