Switching Hard Drives

lostsoul62

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I blow away a computer so I'm taking the Hard Drive out and putting it into another computer. From a AMD 3000 to a AMD 3800 and all it does in re-boot. I put in the XP CD and tried to do a repair but it didn't work or I didn't do it right. Can anyone help?
 
Well, the rebooting doesn't sound like a hard drive problem to me. How far does it get in the POST before it reboots? Did you try unhooking the hard drive and seeing if it still reboots?
 
I"m thinking it's more of a drastic motherboard change at fault here. If the motherboards are too different just a repair install usually isn't enough to get the system booting right. Odds are you need to do a full reinstall of windows.
 
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