Which hardware is at fault?

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TekSomniaK

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Ok here we go. I am moving all the computer parts from my uncle's Shuttle case into a new one. All I've had to purchase was an ABIT NF7 S2G(bad mobo?) to go along with their existing Athlon 2500+ Barton. I reformatted their HDD and reinstalled WinXp Pro. It was fine, I installed Sp2, and my cousin told me to install his brand new copy of Chaos Theory as well. So I put it on there and let them take the computer home (this was all at my house). They got home, connected the computer, and then my cousin tried playing Chaos Theory. So it asks for the install key and then must restart. After he restarts, Windows just sits at the gray loading bar at the bottom of the screen at bootup and gives this message: Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

I read on the MS site about the problem and how to fix it. So they bring the computer back over to my house so I can run this troubleshoot. It involved going into the Recovery Console by using the WinXp cd. I tried it but it said access was denied to the drive(no administrator password was set, btw), so I decided hell, I didn't do much to their computer anyways, I'll just reformat again. Now it gets bad. While in the process, the system gives some blue screen telling me about some error in a .dll file. I think nothing of it, reboot and try again. Now the computer will not refomat the HDD and just sits at 0%. Also, just trying to boot up is long. It takes up to 3-4minutes for the system to detect the IDE drives.

Any ideas?
 
If everything was working fine on the old motherboard and that's all you switched out, then SURE the problem could be the new board. That's the only new part?

Of course, problem could be something that got damaged or disturbed in the migration.

Do you have a complete component break down so we can see what your troubleshooting options are? RAM: 1 stick or 2? Optical drives: 1 or 2 and on same controller as HDD? Make/Model of PSU and what model the old motherboard was? Etc.
 
Sure thing:

Athlon XP 2500+
ABIT NF7 S2G
2x 512mb Geil Pc3200
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb (might be Powercolor, not sure)
Others: Liteon CD-RW and Liteon DVD-Rom

The Shuttle it was previously in was some VIA Chipset....Oh how I hate VIA.
 
I'm thinking bad board if that's all that's changed. My track record with Abit's QC isn't exactly grand. ;)
 
board. I've had problems similar with viruses but its probably the board.
 
When I am trying to reformat, it tells me that the drive cannot be partitioned and may be damaged. I must also tell you that I tested a spare hard drive with it and it worked just fine. Think it is still the mobo or maybe the HDD is screwed?
 
TekSomniaK said:
When I am trying to reformat, it tells me that the drive cannot be partitioned and may be damaged. I must also tell you that I tested a spare hard drive with it and it worked just fine. Think it is still the mobo or maybe the HDD is screwed?
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So between old build and new build you dropped the drive? ;)
 
Nope not at all, that's why I'm confused. It was working fine until that corrupt registry file error came up.
 
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