New System will not load windows!!!!

[AK74OWNER]

:mad: I just bought a Geforce 6800 video card and found out my Abit MOBO would not work since it was so old. So i bought all the new stuff to use the card, like a Soyo KT880 MOBO and AMD Xp 3200 CPU and a 600 wat power supply. Well i tried to start up the new comp with my old hardS drive and dvd r's. It starts up normally then gives me a black screen with options to start in safe mode and etc. Well when you pick safe mode or whatever it goes to the Windows XP loading screen then crases to blue screen thats says.

Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.

***STOP: 0x0000007b (0xF7c79528, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

I tried using a older graphics card but that does not even show anything on the screen.I cannot load or read anything through the cd roms to reinstall windows or anything.

[Quantax]

Using the Win XP CD, you would first run that chkdsk /f command. Then follow it with the command, "bootcfg /rebuild"(with no quotes used) as a means of repairing the boot.ini file because that file may not be pointing to the correct partitions.

This is followed by a question asking for additional installations to which you would answer "N" for no since this isn't a dual boot system.

[david eaton]

You may end up having to do a repair install of Windows, as the copy on the hard drive is set up to recognise the old motherboard/processor etc, and now it is getting confused by the new hardware.

[Paul Komski]

You are attempting to install new hardware (mobo etc) onto an old installation and this often goes sour. You almost certainly need to boot to the installation CD and do a repair (better still a clean or parallel) installation. If the HDD is SCSI then you will also need to press F6 early in the installation process to install the drivers for the drive from a floppy diskette, else the installation itself will fail to recognise the drive.

[AK74OWNER]

everyone tells me to run the Win XP CD but i cant so it im kinda stuck. It will not run anything from the cd roms or floppy but it saw the new sony dvd rw i just put it but it will not list that in the BIOS boot screen, so that i could make it first and it would boot off of that drive...

[youngsw]

Have you tried making an XP repair disk from another workstation. Or set the Bios to boot from floppy first (if it's not listed in the BIOS boot options it's probally set to none instead of 1.44 Floppy). Also with a DOS boot disk with cd rom drivers, should be able to boot from that and load the WinXP setup program. Should be i386/winnt.exe iirc.

Good luck.

[AK74OWNER]

ok the boot disk i made works but what should i do now at this screen asking for commands?

[Paul Komski]

It will not run anything from the cd roms or floppy
Are you sure you cant boot to a bootable floppy or a bootable CD such as the installation CD. This is quite different from accessing these drives from within windows. You have, for example, now downloaded a floppy image and to use it you would need to first copy it to a floppy diskette and then boot to the same floppy.

To boot to either a floppy or cd you must have your bios enabled so that they preceed the hard drive in the boot sequence.

Although you can run winnt.exe in the i386 folder from a dos bootable floppy diskette, such an installation can only be a new clean installation and not a repair installation, which is what you should attempt first if you wish to preserve your programs, settings and data. You will need to boot to a WinXP installation CD to run setup.exe and then perform aRepair Installation (http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm)

... and is your HDD IDE or SCSI or SATA.

[AK74OWNER]

I finnaly got it to work with 6 XP boot disks.

[AK74OWNER]

my system is up and running but when i try to play games it crashes about 10% of the time and says physical memory dump and tells me it was nv4_disp.dll And the graphics in game are good except for weird spots where something is wrong. I tried updating the driver for the Geforce but it did not work. I also do not have Fast Write on..Heres a Screen shot of what some the stuff it does. The error code for the blue screen of death is 0x0000008e (0xc0000005, 0xbfa4a7f3, 0xedffaafc, 0x00000000)

http://picserver.org/view_image.php/0AES1K7R6NES/picserver.jpeg

[AK74OWNER]

just had another mem dump cause by win32k.sys