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Title: New hardware causes BSOD?
Post by: Dust on March 20, 2009, 10:31:43 am

 :fogetcry:​.

This is quite annoying. After installing all of my computer components and putting my old hard drive into the new pc, I get BOSD'd after the Windows XP loading screen boots up. I can't exactly read what it's saying because my computer automatically restarts.

I put the hard drive back into my old computer and it works fine. Windows boots up and everything. I tried to do a repair of Windows, but that caused the setup to BSOD once it reached the GUI portion.

I'm not sure what hardware is causing the BOSD. The processor is installed correctly and is compatible with Win xp. I have 4 gb of ram, but I tested them both by themselves and it still didn't work, so it's not the ram. The only other thing is the motherboard. Do I have to update something on this current hard drive to make windows compatible with the other motherboard?

The only CD that came with my motherboard is this GUI program that shows how much energy you have saved. I don't think it had any drivers.

Does anyone know how to fix this? It's really frustrating.

Thank you very much, it really helps.

Title: New hardware causes BSOD?
Post by: Dale Gobbler on March 20, 2009, 02:41:03 pm

Did you reformat your old hard drive? Reformat your hard drive, the put it in your new comp and boot up with the windows disc in the cd drive. Is it a SATA/PATA hard drive?

Title: New hardware causes BSOD?
Post by: Izekeal on March 20, 2009, 02:46:06 pm

You could also try booting into safe mode.  That should work if it's an issue with a driver.

If that doesn't work you could try booting into the recovery console and running chkdsk.

Aztec's suggestion is good as well, it's possible that the hard drive is messed up and needs a format.

Title: New hardware causes BSOD?
Post by: Dust on March 20, 2009, 07:02:18 pm

@aztec, I formatted the HDD before trying to install windows. It's an IDE hdd, the Windows XP setup wouldn't detect my SATA hdd.

@Izekeal, I tried safe mode, it gave me BSOD. I also ran Chkdsk and it didn't do anything. It found errors, but didn't fix the BSOD.

Title: New hardware causes BSOD?
Post by: Barack Obama on March 20, 2009, 07:48:50 pm

Try downloading a copy of windows XP SP3 and using your registration key. The reason its not seeing your sata hdd is probably because you have an old version of xp.

Title: New hardware causes BSOD?
Post by: Barack Obama on March 20, 2009, 07:49:53 pm

Could be the reason for the crashes too

Title: New hardware causes BSOD?
Post by: Frisky SKeleton on March 20, 2009, 08:23:19 pm

or you could press f3 or whatever at the beggining when it asks if you've got any RAID or SCSI drivers you need to install

check all your bios settings and don't change them inbetween windows installs. also, is it doing this after windows is completely installed or is this midway through the process (ie before the window with the question mark helper thing)?

Title: New hardware causes BSOD?
Post by: Dale Gobbler on March 20, 2009, 10:27:05 pm

Ah. I kind of had a problem like this. I had to slipstream SP3 into the install disc so it would have the SATA drivers or so it would detect my graphics card.

http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/Slipstreaming_Windows_XP_Service_Pack_3.html

Kind of complicated guide. Or you could dl Windows SP3 install like coke said.

Title: New hardware causes BSOD?
Post by: Dust on March 20, 2009, 11:36:12 pm

Alright, I'm on the new computer now after trying to install XP another time. For some reason XP does not have the drivers for the Ethernet cable on my mobo, so I had to install one into a PCI slot just to get onto the internet.

So you guys think installing SP3 will fix it? I'll give that a try.


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EDIT:

I formatted and installed Windows XP SP3 and everything works fine. I didn't have anything important anyways.

Thanks for your help guys :D​.