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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: AdmRose on March 19, 2004, 09:50:19 AM

Title: Windows XP problem
Post by: AdmRose on March 19, 2004, 09:50:19 AM

I just got a new Soyo P4I 845PE mobo w/P4 1.8GHz and it boots up just fine, but when I get to the OS selection screen (its a dual boot HD, 98 and XP) and select XP, the computer restarts. I can get into 98 just fine but it won't recognize the CDROM drives. I read that XP may not start up if it was installed on a different chipset (it was, on an ALi chipset, this board is all Intel) and would have to be reinstalled to work. My questions are:

1) Can I reinstall XP without losing all my files?
2) Would repairing the old installation work?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Title: Windows XP problem
Post by: bloom25 on March 19, 2004, 12:14:55 PM

Your system is bluescreening right after trying to boot XP.  By default XP will simply reboot if this happens.

You can try a repair install, but I think most likely you will need to do a clean install of XP.