Crashes before windows with every HD

[itsrep]

I just bought a brand new Mobo, vid card, memory and processor.. the only new things I didnt buy were my two HDs that had windows loaded... I formatted one of them to reinstall windows xp on the new machine, the first part on the installation went ok, after the reboot it froze.

Tried it a couple of times with both HD, same thing. Got the same Hard drives and reinstalled windows on it through my other older machine and it installed fine.. when I put it iin the new machine I got the blue screen of death saying I might have a virus or hardware problems etc.. I cant remember what it said but if its necessary I can go and write it all down. Anyway I'm pretty lost on this. it will freeze if I try to install it in the new machine and if I get an already installed HD and put it in it crashes right before windows loads up... right before the time the logo is supposed to come up. It can't be the Hds cause I'm on one of the ones that were tested right now and its working fine.

30 gig and a 60 gig


thanx everyone

 

[satrow]

Turn off the Antivirus setting in the Bios.

Andy.

 

[itsrep]

Hey thanx for the fast reply man.. but it didn't work.. it was already disabled but I enabled it ran it and then disabled it again just to make sure and I got the same thing. I also switched to a new IDE cable to make sure thats not it either..

 

[satrow]

Try a minimal boot, 1 drive (if it is past the first install stage - files copied to drive), 1 stick of RAM, VGA, make sure the CPU and heatsink/fan are fitted ok....

Andy.

 

[itsrep]

I keep getting the same problem, is it possible for one hard drive to be corrupt in one computer and not another for any reason? I'm now thinking its some software issue with windows. I will try to install 2000 soon is I can't get xp to work.

 

[wolluf]

Its almost certainly a hardware issue with your new machine (not your hard drives - though you could download diagnostic utilities from drive manufacturer's sites to check) - satrow's suggestion is common approach to try to find the culprit. Its often caused by RAM - but might be any item of hardware. Will the RAM, CPU or Graphics cardfrom older machine work with newer or are they incompatible? (suggesting using as many known good components with the new mobo - and obvious source is older machine - to try to isolate problem - it may be mobo).

PS - power supply adequate on new machine?
cpu fan working properly (if you can check temperature in the bios - do so after its been running a while).

 

[itsrep]

well my new ram is DDR and processor aren't compatible on this computer, the videocard works here though.. my new setup is an Asus nForce A7n8x and the processor is a Athlon XP mobile

 

[micker377]

You can't install XP on one machine and run it on another. How are you doing the format? Did you try Fdisk and start over?

 

[itsrep]

I got it to install after I changed the multiplier settings, it was at 14.0x so I changed it down to 166x12x and its running. however it says unknown cpu... that means theres either something wrogn ont he bios or a pin setting I screwed up right?

I was formatting it on the xp install.. it gives me the option to format the disc. since I couldnt finisht he isntall before Iw ould install it in another machine and run it here.. it works sometimes when I had two computers running I was able to switch them around if something went wrong.