Hi,
I just went to a computer fair and bought a rather serious upgrade for my pc.
The previous specs were:
- Athlon XP 1800+ with compatible motherboard
- 102 GB HDD
- 512 MB DDR RAM
- DVD-ROM
- DVD+/-RW
I bought an Athlon 64 3000+ and a socket 754 motherboard (ASUS K8N), and another stick of RAM (256 MB).
Now, for some reason, it gets to the options screen for starting windows XP on the old hard disk and when i click "start windows normally" or any of the other options, it just restarts.
A friend of mine told me a would need to reformat, but when i put the CD in, it gets to "Inspecting your current system configuration" then after a while restarts.
I cant work out what else to try, the power supply is 350W ATX so i dont think its overheating or anything, and it restarts at exactly the same point each time so i dont think its a memory problem (i've tried having just the new stick in, and just one of the old sticks to make sure).
Also, when i remove the hard disk completely it still restarts if i run the XP setup at exactly the same point.
I used an old windows 95 boot disk and that boots to the A:, but i cant read the hd (probably because its NTFS).
Any help would be great, i'm getting pretty annoyed with it atm.
Cheers,
D
I just went to a computer fair and bought a rather serious upgrade for my pc.
The previous specs were:
- Athlon XP 1800+ with compatible motherboard
- 102 GB HDD
- 512 MB DDR RAM
- DVD-ROM
- DVD+/-RW
I bought an Athlon 64 3000+ and a socket 754 motherboard (ASUS K8N), and another stick of RAM (256 MB).
Now, for some reason, it gets to the options screen for starting windows XP on the old hard disk and when i click "start windows normally" or any of the other options, it just restarts.
A friend of mine told me a would need to reformat, but when i put the CD in, it gets to "Inspecting your current system configuration" then after a while restarts.
I cant work out what else to try, the power supply is 350W ATX so i dont think its overheating or anything, and it restarts at exactly the same point each time so i dont think its a memory problem (i've tried having just the new stick in, and just one of the old sticks to make sure).
Also, when i remove the hard disk completely it still restarts if i run the XP setup at exactly the same point.
I used an old windows 95 boot disk and that boots to the A:, but i cant read the hd (probably because its NTFS).
Any help would be great, i'm getting pretty annoyed with it atm.
Cheers,
D