XP restarts when loading

[ouch]

safe mode does it too.

I recently installed a new mother board. when i turn it
on windows starts but then restarts the machine.

I tried the recovery console but it keeps giveing access
denied. how Microsoft can legaly call it a recovery
console if you can't modify anything is beyond me.

anyone know anything I could try without reformatting
and/or re-installing windows?

If I could get a dos prompt to c:\ I think I could track
down the driver cause the issues. (I think it's just an
old driver, but which one?) So far every boot disk I
found can only access my floppy drive and my cdrom.

 

[RonK]

Use the second Repair Option in the XP Installation procedure. Don't select
the first Repair. Continue on as if you were going to do a clean install.
The XP Installation will find your already installed XP and then will give
you the option of Repair. If by some chance the Repair option is NOT there -
do not continue as you will lose all data. The Repaie option will not lose
your data. You will have to re-install SP1 and any other updates.

You have to do this Repair Installation because of the new motherboard.

 

[ouch]

Well I don't have my XP CD as I have lost it when I moved.

I think I just need a dos boot disk that can access the
drive windows is installed on. (c:\)

is there a config.sys or autoexec.bat line I can type in
to get dos to reconize my harddrive?