Well I recently got major upgrades to my PC. New mobo, vid card, processor, power supply and ram. For some reason I cannot get to the desktop. I thinking it may be because the hard drive and cd drive is on the same IDE line. I've gone into the bios and tried screwing around there. Nothing. I though the partion might be corrupted but I have reached the desktop when I switched out my hard drive to another PC. So I ordered a SATA hard drive thinking this may solve the problem because they run on a seperate line.
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Check the jumpers on the drives, if they're on the same IDE chain. Having them both set to Master can cause the system to hang.
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You need to reinstall windows after the hardware upgrade. It won't boot after it was formatted and installed with a different motherboard.
I screwed around with the jumpers until the hard drive was set on Master and the dvd drive on slave and it still won't boot. As for reinstalling windows, I can get it to boot from disk.
*Edit- No, I got it to boot from cd. So if I reinstall windows it will work? Then I'm wondering if I can use my product key on both hard drives, because I'm going to get my SATA one tomo.
*Edit- No, I got it to boot from cd. So if I reinstall windows it will work? Then I'm wondering if I can use my product key on both hard drives, because I'm going to get my SATA one tomo.
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It makes no difference how many times you install it as long as you use it on one PC only. You will have to reactivate it, And because its a different board you might have to call Microsoft.
As long as you don't have other issues it will work, but reinstalling is a must after a motherboard change.
As long as you don't have other issues it will work, but reinstalling is a must after a motherboard change.
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