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| Thread ID: 64573 | 2005-12-20 01:15:00 | Old hard drive in new PC! | Havion (9450) | Press F1 |
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| 414157 | 2005-12-20 01:15:00 | Ok so I’m having a bit of a problem…I bought all new parts to build a new PC and want to use my old hard drive. OLD PC 3.4 P4 HT 1GB Ram Radeon X800 PCIE 256MB Western Digital 250GB SATA Hard Drive NEW PC 3.0 pentium D 2GB Ram GeForce 7800 GTX Everytime I go to reinstall windows my new PC shuts down…might anyone know why? I know the bios are setup correctly…and all the hardware is hooked up correctly so I dunno what the heck is going on… |
Havion (9450) | ||
| 414158 | 2005-12-20 01:17:00 | Ok so I’m having a bit of a problem…I bought all new parts to build a new PC and want to use my old hard drive. OLD PC 3.4 P4 HT 1GB Ram Radeon X800 PCIE 256MB Western Digital 250GB SATA Hard Drive NEW PC 3.0 pentium D 2GB Ram GeForce 7800 GTX Everytime I go to reinstall windows my new PC shuts down…might anyone know why? I know the bios are setup correctly…and all the hardware is hooked up correctly so I dunno what the heck is going on… |
Havion (9450) | ||
| 414159 | 2005-12-20 01:36:00 | Format the drive first. | pctek (84) | ||
| 414160 | 2005-12-20 01:44:00 | Format the HD in my old PC then put it in my new one? | Havion (9450) | ||
| 414161 | 2005-12-20 02:01:00 | No, Pctek is jumping the gun a bit. If you have Windows XP (you don't say what op system you're running) loaded on your hard drive from your old comp I guess you want to put the HD in the new comp without reinstalling Windows. Windows doesn't like doing this as it needs new drivers etc and will likely throw a fit. You can put the old HD in your new comp, set bios to boot from CD... put in your WINXp (?) CD and do a repair install so Windows will find all the new components/drivers etc. Apparently this is frowned upon and you will have to re-activate if you have XP, but it worked fine for me. |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 414162 | 2005-12-20 02:05:00 | Looks to me like he is trying to do a dirty install and its failing. In which case as Pctech has stated it needs to be formatted. If its already formatted then you have a bigger issue..... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 414163 | 2005-12-20 03:08:00 | Did you backup your critical files, and install a fresh copy of Windows, or did you attempt using your old hard drive as-is? How far along does the boot process get before rebooting? Do you see the Windows Splash screen, or the "Start" button? Did you try a safe-mode boot? Did you try remove all extra cards, like the video card? You might want to test your new RAM with the freebie memtest86, a bootable CD. |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 414164 | 2005-12-20 03:09:00 | Now....How would he see how far he was into the boot process he was if he removed the video card? | Metla (12) | ||
| 414165 | 2005-12-20 03:11:00 | Almost all motherboards have built-in "on-board" video. | kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 414166 | 2005-12-20 03:22:00 | Heh, 90 percent of the boards I sell don't have an intergrated video chipset, Besides, The thread starter hasn't given enough information for you to make the assumption that he has intergrated video. Its highly likely that as he has bought the items as components he hasn't seleted a motherboard that is more suited for an office machine. |
Metla (12) | ||
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