So I bought a new motherboard a couple weeks ago..

Wonton_Burrito · 06-07-2009 02:24 PM

And I can't get my OS to start up on it. I would just reinstall my OS but the disc is on my hard drive and I don't know how to reinstall it to the new motherboard.

Somebody help me.

Doctor_Grass · 06-07-2009 02:49 PM

thats why its generally the status quo if u dont know what your doing to just buy a new computer if your mother board is toast. i'd suggest call a pro, don't risk ruining anything that is still functional.

Doublehelix · 06-07-2009 02:52 PM

was your old pc an OEM such as Dell or HP? If so then the OS is hard coded to the BIOS on the motherboards they use. You can reconect your old board and creat a recovery disk,but again its all for not if its an OEM copy of the OS.
As a side note, Windows 7 RC is free till April of next year or there about. That is of course if you dont mind the early adoption headaches .

BayBlast · 06-07-2009 05:55 PM

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thats why its generally the status quo if u dont know what your doing to just buy a new computer if your mother board is toast. i'd suggest call a pro, don't risk ruining anything that is still functional.

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This.

There are so many factors to consider and examine at this point. Don't post any, but what about this and this and this, and don't do anymore tinkering. Take your machine to a computer diagnostic and repair professional.

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Wonton_Burrito · 06-09-2009 01:21 PM

I was just seeing if there was another way because I'm just worried about how much it will cost for them to put it together. Thanks for the help.

houtex · 06-09-2009 05:45 PM

What was the chipset of the old motherboard, and what is the chipset of this one?

If it's an Intel-Intel swap, you can get it running in many cases. *Not* all, mind, but many.

Ditto for Nvidia-Nvidia, ATI-ATI, etc.

But swapping out motherboards with dissimilar manufacturer chipsets is a guaranteed no go.

I'm assuming here that the old motherboard is fried, or you'd have already put it back and made your disc. Yeah, there's not much that can be done in this case, you're going to have to pony up a couple hours of labor, sounds like. Maybe you got a real good computer friend you can buy lunch or something and get this done. Wouldn't be hard to in place upgrade the OS and get it back up.

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Wonton_Burrito · 06-09-2009 06:02 PM

My old mb is fine I'm just upgrading to a new one because my old one doesn't support duo processors. And I'm pretty sure I'm going from intel to AMD, I'll have to check again.

@ houtex - You mentioned making a disc. I'm assuming a new disc for the OS or for something else?

houtex · 06-09-2009 06:21 PM

You said your OS disc was on the hard drive... so I assumed this meant you could burn one to boot with... perhaps I'm mistaken?

Now, there is a procedure where you can tell your current OS to 'generic' it's hard drive channel drivers while it's on the old mobo, THEN swap it out, and it will redetect the new chipset ones. Usually that's the problem with them restarting, the hard drive channel drivers are wrong, causing a STOP BSOD.

Check this out:

http://www.motherboard.windowsreinstall.com/winxp.htm

Solution 4 is what I'm talking about. Then there's this:

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008...creen-of-death/

Which is *similar* to what I'm trying to find again... Ah, here it is:

http://ayinat.blogspot.com/2007/07/h...mainboard.html

And you can also do this with a working system loading the other drive's hive into the registry and performing surgery... FINALLY. Here it is, the original document I first did this with:

http://www.mostlycreativeworkshop.com/article11.html

There. You are now armed with way more info about this issue than most are.

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gameboy1234 · 06-09-2009 06:21 PM

So you unplug your MoBo from your hard drive, plug the HD in to the new MoBo, and expect it to go?

I doubt it. mobos format the hard drive differently, and don't read each others formats. As mentioned it's possible to do this if you keep the same chip set and sometimes the same manufacturer, but in general, nope.

Worst cases: You'll have to sell your new mobo one ebay 'cause you can't use it. Or you'll have to buy a new hard drive and a few other components, and basically build a new rig.

One thought: transfer everything you want off the old HD onto a USB hard drive. Install new MoBo and reformat drive. You'll need a copy of an OS to run too. Ouch. Then install the OS just like a new comp. Copy info from external USB Hard Drive back to comp.

Long and painful, but that's as cheap as I can think of.

Wonton_Burrito · 06-09-2009 06:33 PM

I think I'm just gonna call up geek squad or something because all of that looks way too complicated for me. Thank you for all of your help.

houtex · 06-09-2009 06:35 PM

Alrighty then. Good luck, Burrito!

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Wonton_Burrito · 06-09-2009 07:01 PM

Wait one more question.

Wouldn't I just boot up in safe mode on the new mobo then go to C:/i386 then open up the winnt32.exe file and do a repair install of my OS?

Hawkeyed · 06-09-2009 11:22 PM

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Wouldn't I just boot up in safe mode on the new mobo then go to C:/i386 then open up the winnt32.exe file and do a repair install of my OS?

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But if you can't even get to the bios since the new mobo won't boot, thats a no go.

Personally, my mobo took a dump about 3 weeks on my media center. What a pain, so I know what your going through.

For me personally, it helped buying the same manf as the old mobo, but different chipset, now I've a quad in there.

If you don't know what your doing, the fine folks at best buy can help, but they are going to charge you more then when you want to pay.

(Prob lose all info on hard drives, new OS, and whatever else they charge, plsu the labor per hour-only a guess though!)

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Wonton_Burrito · 06-09-2009 11:58 PM

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Wouldn't I just boot up in safe mode on the new mobo then go to C:/i386 then open up the winnt32.exe file and do a repair install of my OS?

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But if you can't even get to the bios since the new mobo won't boot, thats a no go.

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My new mobo works, I just can't boot the OS normally, but I can boot in safe mode. So I was thinking just copy all my documents and whatnot to a disk then do that. But I don't know if that'll work or not so I asked you guys.

seaborn · 06-10-2009 02:24 AM

Before you call the Geek Squad, check the phone book for little computer shops. In these lean times, you may come out cheaper getting work done, compare cost estimates between all parties. A couple of phone calls is all it takes.

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Wolf_Shadow · 06-10-2009 03:00 AM

And just one more thought. If no one can do it for you for less than $100 and you can pull all your data from the hard drive, just buy a new Operating System.

Windows XP Home w/SP3

Windows Vista SP1 64 bit

Pull your data off the hard drive.
Insert the new OS Disk
Reboot your system from the CD/DVD
Format your hard drive
Install Windows
Update Windows
Replace your data

Probably not a bad idea to have a phone number of a local shop that will probably answer questions for free.

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Wonton_Burrito · 06-10-2009 08:10 PM

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Couldn't I just boot up in safe mode on the new mobo then go to C:/i386 then open up the winnt32.exe file and do a repair install of my OS?

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So would this work or not?

houtex · 06-11-2009 05:19 PM

If you know you could do that with a healthy system, then there's no reason you can't do it, if you can get it into safe mode, unless that method doesn't work in safe mode, like so many other things in XP.

Frankly, I've never done it that way, as I've got a library of the various OSs I may need to fix other's computers... So I really can't say 100%.

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