Rebooting

[Allthebadluck]

I had a motherboard die on me a week ago an sense thenI replaced it. Unfortunately the FSB on my CPU was 800MHz while the highest FSB for the new motherboard was only 533. The computer booted once I installed everything on the motherboard untilt he windows loading screen. The blu bar would only go across once, then halfway then stop. The computer would reboot itself. I didn't notice my mix up until this had happened a few times and then checked over the manual again. I had accidentaly ordered the wrong motherboard. Would a incorrect CPU and Motherboard FSB cause this porblem. Or does it go deeper than this? Thanks

 

[Ethereal_Dragon]

What was the probem with having the wrong motherboard? Do you mean you had a different socket type than what the CPU used, or did you just mean because of the FSB issue?

 

[Baez]

i think he means just the fsb. and u can have diff fsb values and it shouldnt affect the way ur comp runs so its something else

 

[Allthebadluck]

What else could cause this then?

 

[wasisnt]

Are you sure it was the MB that was bad in the first place?

 

[Allthebadluck]

Yes, the I had a Asus P4P800SE, and they had a habit of when you used the onboard USB for upfront USB ports the chipset would burn, which would cause the rest of the board to follow after. After a few weeks of the board just not being stable it wouldn't boot at all. When I switched the motherboards the system turned on unlike wiht the old motherboard would even get anything beyond that little light turning on.

 

[Nitestick]

normally freezing at the boot screen is a hardware/hardware driver issue. try booting safemode. if it freezes during the driver loading list tell us what driver file it freezes at.

 

[Allthebadluck]

Driver

in safe mode it says hit esc to cancel loading a347bus and regardless of whether i hit esc or not the computer still reboots

 

[Nitestick]

can't remember what that driver is but google it and you should have your culprit

 

[Allthebadluck]

Yah, only thing that could be done was a nice clean install of XP, Which I don;t mind anyway. Because I keep all my files on a seperate partition for just this kind aof situation. And I love setting up a OS for the first time, probably cause I'm weird. Thanks all.