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Help Upgraded Computer, XP won't boot

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Szap

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I just got finished upgrading from a PIII 800 mhz to

Athlon 64 3000+
ABIT KV8Pro
Kingston Value Series 512MB DDR PC-3200

I had windows me, which was then upgraded to windows xp home edition when it first came out. I just got finished putting it all together. It boots up past the BIOS, but once it gets to the point where it tries to load Windows XP, I see a blue screen with words flash and then the computer restarts. It's too fast for my to erad what it says. After it restarts I get the choice to start windows normal, safe, last known good configuration, etc... None of these work though. Can anyone help me with this?
 
it's typically a good idea to reformat after a major upgrade like this or else funky stuff like that happens...=/
 
Thanks for the replies, but I just did a repair installation and that seemed to fix the problem for now.
 
Id still do a fresh format and re-install. Don't want anything funky poping up in the future. And it's always a good idea to reformat every once in a while. I do it regularly at the 6 month mark. That and I don't trust windows to "repair" my OS.
 
I plan on reformatting tomorrow. I need to backup some of my stuff before I do that. I don't really have the time tonight. I think I need to do it quickly though. Now, it takes forever for windows to start up for some reason. I'm hoping the reformat fixes that. Would it be better to get the full version of XP? Right now I'd have to format, install a previous version of windows then install the xp upgrade.
 
Yes, the full version would probably help, but not too much I'd assume. Unless you can get it super cheap, I would just go with what you have now. I also never trust installing an OS over another OS.
 
clockworks said:
Run memtest86+ and report back your results.
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memtest is run from a floppy is it not? how is he sposed to run that if he can't get into windows to create a bootable floppy.. if he doesn't have any friends that will do it or another computer.
 
Szap said:
Would it be better to get the full version of XP? Right now I'd have to format, install a previous version of windows then install the xp upgrade.
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No. It'd be a waste of money. It is possible to do a clean installation with a Windows XP upgrade CD. The only difference is it will ask you to insert the old Windows verion's CD during installation. There is no need to "install a previous version of windows the install the XP upgrade".

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp if you're unsure on how to go about it.

Anyway, it's obvious the reason for the Windows not booting at first was due to the hardware changes and driver conflicts. That is no surprise at all. There are ways to prepare the system for such a change, but just winging it and hoping for the best will lead to having to reinstall the OS. In any case, you should always backup BEFORE making changes, not afterwards.
 
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