Problem with new motherboard and CPU

[stirlingsheep]

Yesterday I bought a new AMD Semperon 3000+ and a Pc Chips M848ALU V2.1, I got home and took out my old motherboard, cpu etc and installed the new kit.

The Computer started fine, but I got no graphic display, so I trudged back to the store today with my system, they took a few hours and discovered that the AGP slot was faulty on the motherboard, and were happy to replace it and fitted the new one themselves to make sure it was ok.

They also checked my ram for defects etc.

Anyway, get it home this afternoon to plug it all in, and it runs through BIOS normally, and I get the message

"Windows did not start properly, select options from below etc

Safe mode
Safe mode with command prompt
Safe mode with networking

Last Known Good Configuration

Start Windows normally"

I have tried all of the above, and all that happens is my screen flickers and my computer reboots. When I have selected safe mode, it seems to start loading drivers and then rebooting.

My full configuration is

AMD Sempron 3000+
1.5 GB DDR400 RAM
PC Chips M848ALU V2.1 Motherboard
NVIDIA GeForce MX 440

Its probabl;y something really simple, but it's hacking me off.

[Trash Man]

You will need to reinstall windows after changing your motherboard. So if you have anything important you need on the HDD, stick your old board back in and back it up.

[richy]

hi there, as trash man says its a good idea to format your hard drive and reinstall windows to remove all of the old drivers for your previous motherboard, if i,m adding a processor mb etc i formatt the hard drive as it saves complications in the long run, once you have formatted install the drivers for your new board and away ye shall go

[stirlingsheep]

thanks guys, wasnt anything too important on their anyway, well, nothing that cant be re-installed.

Cheers

[SilentDeath]

There is two ways to get round it however.

Firstly is to remove all drivers before swapping the mobo over, not sure how well this works though.

Second, on the win2k/xp cd's there is a tool for removing drivers, and setting up for a new mobo. Has to be ran from within windows I think.

Both might be more effort than its worth.. not tryed either. No idea if the first one works, but the second should.

As you cant do either now (although you could get it to boot with old mobo?) its going to help you.. but maybe for next time.

[Mblaster]

Or you could just install Windows over the top of your old one, without formatting the drive. But I wouldn't recommend that.