My mother board went bad and I replaced it with one that E-machines told me to get. A micro atx board, the board tjat came in the machine was no longer available, and that the the preinstalled software on the restore disc will not work, anyone know how to get around this. Everything is the same except the motherboard. My motherboard went bad so I replaced it. now XP wont boot up. E-machine says that if I change the motherboard the restore disc that cam with the machine will no longer work. I bought a micro atx boa

You would have received a support cd with your new mother board. This cd will have all the necessary drivers for it. As you have a valid windows licence already in the restore cd you can use another copy of windows to load the operating system from scratch. All you need to do is install the hardware drivers of the mother baord support cd and you should be on your way... Any other drivers that you might need can be obtained from the appropriate manufacturer's web site... Hope that helps IF IT AINT BROKE, DONT FIX IT A8N-SLI Deluxe AMD X64 3500+ Wnchst Corsair 2x512 DDR400 Dual Channel GV-NX6600128D PCIX Graphics Card Ggbyte GT Pro CPU Cooler Zalman VF700-CU VGA Cool

I have restored the computer with the restore CD and I keep booted to to a black screen with things you can do like safe mode, safe mode with command prompt, start your computer normally, etc., etc. I can't use the CD that came with the mother board because I can't get into the computer to load it. All it does is that it keeps cycling through the start-up. A quick blue screen flash and then into the black screen with the different start up modes. I can get into the BIOS. HELP! HELP!!!!! My motherboard went bad so I replaced it. now XP wont boot up. E-machine says that if I change the motherboard the restore disc that cam with the machine will no longer work. I bought a micro atx boa

As I said before you will not be able to use the restore cd... You will need to obtain another copy of the operating system and install it from scratch. The fact you have a operating system licenece this can be done without braking the copyright and licencing laws.. The reason you cant get the thing to start is because the restore cd has all the hard ware drivers already in it and they are not compatable with the new board. IF IT AINT BROKE, DONT FIX IT A8N-SLI Deluxe AMD X64 3500+ Wnchst Corsair 2x512 DDR400 Dual Channel GV-NX6600128D PCIX Graphics Card Ggbyte GT Pro CPU Cooler Zalman VF700-CU VGA Cool

" I have restored the computer with the restore CD and I keep booted to to a black screen with things you can do like safe mode, safe mode with command prompt, " Have you tryed selecting Normal boot? And if you have what happened? How did you restore your computer if could not get to the cdrom?? Never say Never Romeo Void Firefox 1.0.5 Thunderbird 1.0