I'm trying to upgrade my system and am having boot probs with the new setup. new: case, 420W ps, Intel D101Ggc mb, Intel P4 2.66 cpu, Kingston 512Mb mem chip, floppy old: Maxtor 60Gb IDE, Creative CD/DVD, Sony CD-RW Consistantly boots to a screen where it asks me to boot in safe or normal mode. Whichever I choose, it displays the Intel screen briefly, then a screen of text (drive info, etc.), then right back to asking me to choose safe/normal boot. I've gone into setup and changed primary boot device between HDD & CD, but results are the same. What am I missing?

forgot to mention the old setup was a PIII/800Hz on an Intel D815EEA2 motherboard.

If youve replaced the motherboard, i would strongly recommend installing a fresh copy of windows as it will need to refresh the motherboard drivers etc. Usually when ive changed a motherboard i just get a blue screen on boot - so you cant get into windows to change the drivers.

great advise in response 2 all your old programs are configured to run on the old motherboards bios which you have now changed you will want to do a fresh install of the operating system then all will work in harmony ( or it should) I have this board and have had zero problems with it the drivers included on the disk are a little old so after getting your system set up download the newer ones from intel.

in my experience (like others) you can not get xp to boot if you take the hard disc from one computer and put it in another which has different chipset on the motherboard (microsoft mention this is the Knowledge base). Windows 98SE had a distinct advantage here. I have usually (not always) got it working without losing data etc by booting from the XP CD, telling it i want to do a new installation, then at some point past the F8 accept licence screen it says that it has detected that windows is already one the hard drive and asks if you want to attempt a repair. I then ask it to attempt a repair. Sometimes works. Another way is to do a fresh XP installation from XP CD BUT WITHOUT FORMATTING the disc when it asks if you want to format it. This instals XP but your data is still on the hard disc, but is sometimes a bit hard to locate as XP thinks you are now a different user. If know the name of the file you want to find you can use the Find/Search function in windows explorer to locate it. Do all this at your own risk - I am not responsible if you lose data etc. I am just telling you what I have done in past.

I resolved the prob by setting the system to boot via CD, then booting the Win XP CD, selecting New Installation, then selecting Repair Existing Installation. Thanks for your responses!