comp upgrade hit a snag

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I am using some of my old parts to upgrade my mom's computer. her old comp was a 900 MHz AMD Athlon Duron, 512 MB Kingston ValueRam, WinFast nVidia MX2 and a 120 GB Maxtor HDD 7200 rpm 8 MB buffer. The HDD has WinXP w/ SP2 on it but the computer ran fairly slow, thus I wanted to upgrade it. I just upgraded my comp and therefore, used my old parts to upgrade my mom's computer. Her new parts are an AMD Athlon XP 2700 and 1 GB (2x512) PC3200 Kingston ValueRam. The video card and HDD are the same but the HDD is only a little over a year old. Everything is hooked up right and seems to be running well except I get a blue screen when the comp tries to run Windows. The comp starts up fine until it goes to load Windows, then I get a blue screen, and it happens so fast, I can't read it so I have no idea what is causing Windows to not load. This seems to be a Windows problem (and this thread will also be in the OS forum) but I am posting this here just to make sure there is no hardware problem. Anyone think there is a problem with the HDD or something?
 
I swaped the mobo, processor and ram. I am still using the same harddrive which has Windows already on it. Do I need to reinstall Windows? Will it not work even though it's the same hdd?
 
General Crespin said:
Windows doesn't like it very much when you have major hardware changes.
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yup, looks like reformatting is your only option. before you installed the new hardware you could've used the sysprep method, but its too late now.
 
yeah, i saw the sysprep thing too late...after i changed out all the hardware :rolleyes: but i am gonna take out the hdd and make it a slave in another comp and copy any important files from it then put it back and reformat/reinstall.
 
it's all good now. i just took out her hdd and made it a slave in my desktop and copied all the files from it and then put it back and did a fresh install. everything works and runs smoothly. thanks again for the help.
 
haha i remember when i didnt know that you cant switch a MOBO, and i had built my mom a computer and she had DDR and i still had that old ram, what was it SDR or something...anyways to make a long story short i tried to steal her processor, motherboard, and ram over night, but in the process i lost all of my files on my computer, but luckily only the sound didnt work on her computer, so she didnt find out until my friend ratted me out...

i dont usually steal from mom dukes, but she didnt realize that i needed some better FPS in de_dust
 
hahaha, parents will never understand that need. :p although all my mom needs now is a good video card and she could play some cs!
 
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