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sherry · 03-07-2005, 07:30 PM

I spent the afternoon trying to put a Chaintech 7NIL2 mATX mobo in my daughter's T2482 E-machine computer. The emachine currently has an AM37 MOBO with an AthlonXP 2400+ with 256 ram.

Everything went fine-- new MOBO was recognized, got into the BIOS, it saw all the peripherals and ram-- no problems. Well, except one-- it wouldn't boot into Windows XP. (The new MOBO has an Athlon XP 3200+ with 1g of ram.) My daughter did not want to do a fresh install of Windows XP because she has college essays and homework on her harddrive.

After about two hours of troubleshooting to no avail, I finally put the old MOBO back in. Booted up into windows with no problems at all.

Can someone explain to me what happened here? About three weeks ago, I replaced the socket 370 MOBO in my mom's old HP with a new socket 478 P4 motherboard, and it booted right up into windows after the change! She uses it everyday and loves it!

Appreciate any and all insight for this newbie.

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sherry New Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Western PA Posts: 14	New MOBO in an E-machine? I spent the afternoon trying to put a Chaintech 7NIL2 mATX mobo in my daughter's T2482 E-machine computer. The emachine currently has an AM37 MOBO with an AthlonXP 2400+ with 256 ram. Everything went fine-- new MOBO was recognized, got into the BIOS, it saw all the peripherals and ram-- no problems. Well, except one-- it wouldn't boot into Windows XP. (The new MOBO has an Athlon XP 3200+ with 1g of ram.) My daughter did not want to do a fresh install of Windows XP because she has college essays and homework on her harddrive. After about two hours of troubleshooting to no avail, I finally put the old MOBO back in. Booted up into windows with no problems at all. Can someone explain to me what happened here? About three weeks ago, I replaced the socket 370 MOBO in my mom's old HP with a new socket 478 P4 motherboard, and it booted right up into windows after the change! She uses it everyday and loves it! Appreciate any and all insight for this newbie.