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Computer won't boot
Name: Jeanie2006 Date: February 26, 2006 at 18:37:42 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon 64
Comment:
I bought a new tower, power supply and motherboard and put my old hard drive, dvd and cd drives in. I can power up and the bios seems fine. It sees the hardware and the boot order, but when I tell it to continue it flashes once or twice and goes back to the bios. Anyone got any ideas??
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: February 26, 2006 at 20:56:11 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Jeanie,
The usual.
Disconnect all drives; pull al cards. Try again.
Any beeps?
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2
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Response Number 2
Name: jam Date: February 26, 2006 at 21:02:36 Pacific
Reply:
You can't just swap a hard drive with WinXP already installed on it...it's configured to the old hardware & won't boot on the new. Boot off the WinXP CD & do a "repair install"
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