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My New PC Won't Work -

Well I just got these new stuff for my PC.

8800 GT gfx card
P5N-E SLI Motherboard
Intel core 2 duo -E6750
2gig ram Corsair 2x1024.

Well this is the problem. I turn it on. And I go to safe mode.. loads of writing comes down the screen but stops after like 20 lines. The PC then restarts.. :mad:

another problem is that I go to start windows normally, and I see a blue screen flash, and the windows xp logo, then a black blank screen comes on. Then the PC restarts :( I've tried taking 1gig of ram out and trying it. And it does just the same. I've also tried reseting the CMOS, and didn't do anything. I have also made sure all the settings are correct in the BIOs. :mad: Will Formatting the old hard drive that's in there now solve this? Or if I reinstall windows?

Any help on how to get this sorted ? I would appreciate it very much. Thanks :cool:

If you replaced your motherboard in a PC that already had Windows installed--which is what it sounds like--you will likely have to perform a repair install. Windows chooses the proper bus drivers for your hard drive during installation. When you changed your motherboard, you changed the bus and now Windows cannot access the hard drive(s) with the old drivers.

Boot to the Windows XP CD. Select "Install Windows." Setup will attempt to detect previously installed versions of Windows. It should locate your previous install and give you the option to repair it. Doing this should not delete any data or applications, although some highly integrated apps--such as virus protection--may need to be reinstalled afterwards.

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Originally Posted by Northwind_Dagas

If you replaced your motherboard in a PC that already had Windows installed--which is what it sounds like--you will likely have to perform a repair install. Windows chooses the proper bus drivers for your hard drive during installation. When you changed your motherboard, you changed the bus and now Windows cannot access the hard drive(s) with the old drivers.

Boot to the Windows XP CD. Select "Install Windows." Setup will attempt to detect previously installed versions of Windows. It should locate your previous install and give you the option to repair it. Doing this should not delete any data or applications, although some highly integrated apps--such as virus protection--may need to be reinstalled afterwards.

Thanks for the help.. but wouldn't formatting the hard drive sort it? Because all the old drivers would be wiped.. and I wouldn't mind if I did that.

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Originally Posted by 8800gt14

Thanks for the help.. but wouldnt formatting the hard drive sort it ?? because all the old drivers wud be wiped.. and i wouldnt mind if i did that.

If that is the action you wish to take, it will indeed solve the problem. However, it will take longer and of course you will have to reload all your applications.

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Originally Posted by Northwind_Dagas

If that is the action you wish to take, it will indeed solve the problem. However, it will take longer and of course you will have to reload all your applications.

Yeah I know, but I have another problem now :(

I turn my PC on and all I get is a blank screen, with a bit of lighting. And nothing comes on.. so I have to turn my PC off then back on.. but after like 5 tries it finally comes on.. and sometimes the screen freezes... do you know why?

Have you tried re-seating your video card?

Yeah many times I've even used gfx card out of another PC and it still don't work so its not the gfx card.. il try the cpu out other PC tomorrow.. and if it still don't work. You think it's the motherboard?

88,

Back to square one for you. Please tell me you were grounded to the PC's frame when you were handling the cards for install! If you were not, then you might have discharged static electricity into the cards and fried one or more of them.

Also, because of the mother-board change, all the old addresses of registers are no longer correct. Windows has to go through and set everything back up and then correct its registers.

As to a full format, when you loose everything, as you wi8ll, how are you going to get all of your documents back. Everything goes, Windows, applications and data. That is why it is a last chance option.

Have you considered doing a "System Restore"? This might allow Windows to re-writes its pointers and registers for the new cards. Also, before you restore the system make absolutely sure you have used the ADD HARDWARE wizard to change your system resources available to the CPU.

One last suggestion, make certain that the components you have connected to the CPU are compatible with the new mother-board with respect to clock speeds and sockets. You also have to do the same with the PCs original equipment to the new mother-board.