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Having problems booting up.. into anything.

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FreddieKU

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Ok so a friend gave me his Asus K8V SE Deluxe mobo and an Athlon 64+ 2200Mhz cpu the other day. Here is a snapshot of the system I had:

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All I did was switch the mobo and cpu in and left everything else exactly the same. When I try to boot up now, it doesn't recognize my HD in setup but does when it's going through Asus RAID bios thing.. which I don't even know what the hell it is because I'm a total noob. I guess I'm not really sure what my question is but looking at what I had before and switching out the CPU and Mobo.. any idea what I could start to try and do to make my stuff work? I can answer any specific questions but am unknowledgeable about RAID and what not as I've never had to deal with it before since the last time I built a computer was 2003 and I just learned what I need to know.
 
So what did you switch what with exactly? Your P4 system isn't at all compatible with an Athlon 64 system so I'm trying to figure out what you could have switched out.
 
I took everything that was in my old system (except the P4 and Mobo) and put it on the Asus Mobo w/ Athlon CPU

So my system now is:
Asus K8V SE Deluxe Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64+ CPU
GeForce4 Ti 4400 GPU
2GB RAM
80GB Western Digital HD
Sound Card, etc. etc.
 
Well everything is looking for the motherboard and CPU you had before and therefore won't work with the replacements. Reinstalling Windows will sort it out.
 
People that do such swapouts of such major components should go into the process knowing ahead of time they really do need to reinstall. Yes, there are some masochists out there that love the issues that such a hardware upgrade can and typically does cause when they attempt (and are sometimes successful) at keeping the same installation.

But...

There's absolutely no legit reason to keep an old install knowing what you're swapping out. The best advice:

Start over, with a clean installation of the OS, on the new hardware, with the latest drivers, etc.

It never fails...
 
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