I've just taken out my old ASUS A7N8X mobo and CPU to sell on ebay, and I'm using an old MSI K7N2G to take it's place til I get my new setup. I didn't wanna go through the rigmarole of a fresh install as I'll have to do that with my new system anyway when I get it, but I was expecting the old windows to pick up the new mobo, ask for a few drivers and carry on as normal.
I've installed the sata raid drivers, which are needed for the MSI board, and it detects the drive on boot and procedes to windows. Then it stops on the 'options screen' where it asks you to choose safe mode, with networking, last good config and start windows normally. I've tried all of these and it just hangs. Either just freezing when I press the key, or starting to load files and stopping halfway through the list of drivers.
I then tried to repair the windows installation from Windows XP disc, but it doesn't recognise any drives at all and forces me to abort install/repair.
Any clues as to what might be wrong??
The other issue which may be related, is that whenever the machine reboots/resets, (usually after changing settings in the bios), the screen goes blank, the video card fails to give out a signal. Yet if I switch machine off at the PSU and restart, all is fine again and it starts the first part of the boot process.
I'm not sure if this is defective components, corrupt windows install, or what?
Specs:
Athlon XP2200
Enermax noisetaker 470w
Seagate Barracuda 200GB SATA
Radeon 9800Pro
NEC 2500 DVD-rw
WinXP Pro SP2
I was using Athlon XP2800 on the Asus, but the msi already had the 2200 and heatsink attached, so this will become my second machine when new bits arrive. I was using it a few days ago with an IDE drive. No probs.
Anyone had similar experiences?
I've installed the sata raid drivers, which are needed for the MSI board, and it detects the drive on boot and procedes to windows. Then it stops on the 'options screen' where it asks you to choose safe mode, with networking, last good config and start windows normally. I've tried all of these and it just hangs. Either just freezing when I press the key, or starting to load files and stopping halfway through the list of drivers.
I then tried to repair the windows installation from Windows XP disc, but it doesn't recognise any drives at all and forces me to abort install/repair.
Any clues as to what might be wrong??
The other issue which may be related, is that whenever the machine reboots/resets, (usually after changing settings in the bios), the screen goes blank, the video card fails to give out a signal. Yet if I switch machine off at the PSU and restart, all is fine again and it starts the first part of the boot process.
I'm not sure if this is defective components, corrupt windows install, or what?
Specs:
Athlon XP2200
Enermax noisetaker 470w
Seagate Barracuda 200GB SATA
Radeon 9800Pro
NEC 2500 DVD-rw
WinXP Pro SP2
I was using Athlon XP2800 on the Asus, but the msi already had the 2200 and heatsink attached, so this will become my second machine when new bits arrive. I was using it a few days ago with an IDE drive. No probs.
Anyone had similar experiences?