New Motherboad Issues 1

[tylerdurDAN]

I just installed a new motherboard (first time). My old motherboard had a seperate port for everything on the case cover. On my new motherboard there is just 1 long strip for everything that is on the cover. I was able to find the matching area's for the boot up button. All I had plugged in was my CPU (P4 3.06 w/ HT 533FSB), one stick of 256mb pc3200 ram, and my 40gig hard drive. It would boot up and then ask if I want to enter in safe mode (2 other safe mode options), the last know working settings or to start windows normally. None of them work. When windows is booting up it will shut itself down and start all over again. My first thought was the power supply, I have a 250w currently. Any thoughts on how to consolidate all the cover cables into the one strip? And also any ideas why my computer reboots itself in the middle of start up?

My Old mobo

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...786&dest_page=product&cc=us&docname=c00063244

My new mobo

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813138020

Regards

 

[BadBigBen]

You will have to reinstall the OS...


Ben

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[addy]

Well, 250W is very small these days for a power supply, particularly with that type of motherboard and processor (what type of video card are you running also?)

Also, as BigBadBen says, you generally need a format and re-install of you OS when changing a motherboard.

 

[paparazi]

tylerdurDAN
The operating system already installed on your hard drive was configured for the old setup.
The operating system is now confused as major hardware changes have taken place and the existing configuration and drivers are conflicting with the new hardware.

So as has already been said

Best to format and reinstall windows to configure to the NEW setup.

Retrospectively, you should have backed up anything you want to save before changing the motherboard.
Alternately you could slave this drive on another system if some files are too important to loose.
Martin





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[tylerdurDAN]

Thanks for the relies everyone. I do have everything backed up. And right now I am running the onboard video card. I have a new hard drive I want to put in, should I connect it up? There is nothing on the hard drive, its still in the box.

Regards

 

[paparazi]

The 250watt PSU might not be directly related to this fault but will need changing all the same, it simply isn't man enough long term for this setup.

yes! install you new Hard drive on it's own initially, set first boot device to CDrom
Start with XP in the drive
Press any key to start install process (when prompted)
create partition
Format NTFS
XP with go into auto install

Basically take it easy, follow the prompts



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[Freestone]

As others mentioned, your power supply needs to be replaced. Not just because it is underpowered, but also because I don't believe it has the extra 4-pin 12V required by your new board.

 

[kmcferrin]

For the record, you may not always need to do a complete reinstall on replacing your motherboard with a different model. I have had success with booting into safe mode, going into device manager, and then deleting all of the hardware that is shown as installed. The next time Windows boots in normal mode it starts identifying hardware and installing the appropriate drivers. Just be sure to delete everything in safe mode before rebooting, even if the OS wants a reboot. Also, it may take several reboots to completely detect all hardware, but I have yet to have a problem with this technique (even on Windows XP).