Computer freezes at "Intel Pentium 4" screen. Please help!

[MechRocket]

Hi there, I took a hard drive outta my Pentium 3 computer and put it in my Pentium 4 computer. When I try to boot the Pentium 4 up though, it freezes at the first screen that shows - the "Intel Pentium 4" screen.

My friend tells me that you can't expect a Pentium 3 hard drive to boot after you stick it in a Pentium 4 computer, but he says it should at least get to another screen and tell you that that OS doesn't load. Because of this, he doesn't think that it's a problem with the hard drive.

Can anyone please help me? Thanks.

 

[poorman]

I agree with your friend. It might not be detecting the drive at all. Check the jumper settings.

 

[massacreinfallx]

did you try going into the bios to fix the problem?

 

[MechRocket]

The thing is that I can't even press F8 to go into the BIOS. It just freezes at the screen before it.

 

[CrazeD]

Put the HDD back into the P3 machine, and delete all partitions through DOS. Then, put the HDD back into the P4 and install your OS.

 

[massacreinfallx]

hmmmno idea,, probably a problem with compatibility