I'm installing a new motherboard into my system and having some difficulties. The new motherboard is the same model as the previous one, an ASUS A7N8X. No other changes have been made to the system. I go to boot up and the system winds up going into a loop of restarts as it tries to load Windows XP, whether normally, safe mode, from last known good configuration, etc. When I try to boot from the XP disc, it loads all of the drivers from the disc, then as it starts Windows it either A) restarts again or B) I get a BSOD indicating an IRQL stoppage. Can anyone help me with this? Am I forgetting something here? I was under the impression I should only need to run the XP disc and Repair the OS in order for it to recognise the new motherboard. Now having built this computer some years ago, the only copy of XP I have on hand at the moment is from a Dell laptop. I don't know if that would have anything to do with it or not. Thanks in advance!

Appears to be a hardware problem. Double check all your connections. Are you sure you mounted the HSF correctly? not too much or too little paste? Did you run thru all the BIOS settings? Are you 100% sure the board was bad to begin with? What were the symptoms that prompted you to replace it?

Did you entr the BIOS screens and reset values as needed?

I'm not sure what is really going on there but whenever I install something like a new mobo or I always have to reinstall windows or I just get blue screens and it won't even boot into windows. You shouldn't have to reinstall windows for it to work but for some reason that is the only way it works for me. PC1: - Asus M2V-MX SE Motherboard - AMD Athlon 64 4200 X2 Dual Core CPU, 2.2GHz - 1GB DDR667 Memory Module, DDR2 - Onboard GFX (atm) PC2: - Core2Duo Laptop/1GB DDR2

The Dell laptop disk will probably not work. Please let us know if you found someone's advice to be helpful.

A new motherboard is like putting a new brain in you. Your immune system will recognize it as foreign and won't allow to work. Analogously, eventhough you made a complete overhaul of motherboard, the Boot parameters and hardware parameters that are stored in BIOS cause conflict which always result in system unstability evident during startup. If you are absolutely sure that your motherboard is genuine/original, then you may re-sit the BIOS battery and do XP re-install, first with original memory sise (say 512MB wen you purchased the system, because that is required to pass Dell's parameter pass). Once you are sure that you could log into windows, then increase the memory size to max 3GB for 32-bit OS. (read my post here this if it is helpful to your case: http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/...