Help me with mobo!

[CoolSax]

I baught a new mobo from newegg.com http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...131-524&depa=1

I hooked everything up and everything looked fine. The bios was coming up great and everything but then I tried to boot from my hard drive and it would just restart. I tried another one of my hard drives and it did the same thing. One time the mobo wouldn't even start up but I waited and then it worked. What can I do to fix the problem.

[sr71000]

try removing the extra's from the case (high powered graphics cards..extra cd rom drives..stuff like that) how big is u'r psu? also, if you can boot from a cd try running memtest. you might also want to go into the bios and load fail safe defaults..see if that helps

[CoolSax]

Oh yeah, I tried booting from a CD and it restarted. I am running on a 420 Watt Power Supply and have 4 case fans, one hard drive, an old PCI VGA card, and a DVD Burner plugged into it. Do you think that it just isn't getting enough power.

[sweeper2]

quick question... you got a new MB... are you trying to run a HD that already has an operating system on it with your old MB drivers...?

if it's a new MB, i would suggest a format of your HD and reinstall your operating system along with the new MB drivers....

[elroy]

420 watt power supply is plenty big enough assuming it is running ok. What you have would run on a 300 watt. And what sweeper2 said.

[CoolSax]

quick question... you got a new MB... are you trying to run a HD that already has an operating system on it with your old MB drivers...?

if it's a new MB, i would suggest a format of your HD and reinstall your operating system along with the new MB drivers....

I think you could be right with the mobo drivers. Can't I just install the new drivers on to my hard drive without having to format it?

[elroy]

I think you could be right with the mobo drivers. Can't I just install the new drivers on to my hard drive without having to format it?

Depends on what version of Windows you have?
It is different for different Windows.

[sweeper2]

hmmm, you could try, but you might run into problems with conflicts with the old drivers...and the new ones... but if your HD won't even boot up, looks to me like there is already a compatability issue ..


I would suggest a clean format and fresh install and then install your MB drivers etc...

[doddsy]

sata hard drive?

[CoolSax]

Here are the full specs of my comp: IDE 80G hard drive, Windows XP Professional, PCI VGA Card, 420 Watt PSU, IDE DVD Burner, AMD Athlon 64 Socket 939 3200+

[elroy]

You might be able to get away with using your current Windows if you do a repair from the WinXP cd but as sweeper2 said it would be best to do a totally new installation.

[CoolSax]

Once I format it should I plug my formatted hard drive into my new mobo and try installing XP on it with a bootable XP CD that I have?

[sr71000]

if it restarts even when booting to a cd.....the drivers in windows aren't the problems

[elroy]

I'm thinking ......................

[CoolSax]

You should be able to format it on that board. Set the bios to boot from the cd and it will ask about saving the old Windows, tell it no and it will format in NTFS or FAT32, your choice.

On which one the old one or the new one? Well I guess I can only do it on the old one because I tried booting from the CD and and it wouldn't on the new one.

[sweeper2]

if it restarts even when booting to a cd.....the drivers in windows aren't the problems

depends on what he is booting to ... what cd? etc..

[CoolSax]

depends on what he is booting to ... what cd? etc..

Windows install CD that is bootable.

[CoolSax]

if it restarts even when booting to a cd.....the drivers in windows aren't the problems

What do you think the problem is than?

[gigahertz205]

quick question... you got a new MB... are you trying to run a HD that already has an operating system on it with your old MB drivers...?

if it's a new MB, i would suggest a format of your HD and reinstall your operating system along with the new MB drivers....

that is what i would do if i were you...

[sr71000]

not quite sure..but if it's restarting while booting from the cd it's almost deffinately not the windows drivers. try completely unplugging the harddrive from the computer (well..just pull the ide cable, the power can stay if u wanna leave it) and boot from a cd taht way...see if it'll boot from a cd now. could be a defective mobo

instead of using the button on the front of the computer, take the connectors of the mobo and just use a paperclip to short the two power pins