Synergy187
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Okay, I just installed a new cpu, psu, mobo, ram, and graphics card.
Motherboard: Asus Socket 939 A8N5X NVIDIA nForce 4
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Socket 939
Power Supply: TRUEPOWER 2.0 430Watt +12v1@Max17A +12v2@max17A
Ram: 2x Kingston DDR400 (PC3200) 512
Graphics: GeForce 6600GT 128MB DDR3 PCIEx16
The only hardware that I kept from my old system was the case and floppy drive.
I got most of this from newegg.
I have a 120gig hard drive and a 200gig hard drive from my previous setup. The 200gig is my slave drive. Both are IDE.
Basically what I did was this: (Keep in mind this is my first time upgrading)
I installed the hardware fine.
I did not install my slave hard drive yet. I want to do that later.
I had a few problems with the connectors that connect the power-reset-led lights from the case to the motherboard. It was confusing but I got that straightened out from trial and error.
During my first boot up I got a blue screen. Restarted and things were okay. Then I got another and it started to dump the physical memmory(bluescreen). After that I restarted again and I acually got logged into windows. Everythings okay right?
Well I wanted to reinstall windows. I probably should have waiting to figure out that the problem was with the blue screen, but I didn't.
I went to bios and told my computer to boot from CD. I put windows Home Edition in and it started up. I finished formatting and just after that it does this quick setup thing. Setting up with files for after the format. It said some file was either kurrupt or missing I can't remember. (honestly I dont remember what it said.) I have to restart at this point.
NOW, I get this message in DOS mode.
"
NTLDR is missing
Press Ctl+ALT+Delt to restart.
"
I can't do much of anything except hit the bios right now.
I'm not sure what resetting the CMOS means. Could someone tell me what the means and what that does? How to do it? Also could someone please help me out I need my pc stable... What should I do?
Motherboard: Asus Socket 939 A8N5X NVIDIA nForce 4
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Socket 939
Power Supply: TRUEPOWER 2.0 430Watt +12v1@Max17A +12v2@max17A
Ram: 2x Kingston DDR400 (PC3200) 512
Graphics: GeForce 6600GT 128MB DDR3 PCIEx16
The only hardware that I kept from my old system was the case and floppy drive.
I got most of this from newegg.
I have a 120gig hard drive and a 200gig hard drive from my previous setup. The 200gig is my slave drive. Both are IDE.
Basically what I did was this: (Keep in mind this is my first time upgrading)
I installed the hardware fine.
I did not install my slave hard drive yet. I want to do that later.
I had a few problems with the connectors that connect the power-reset-led lights from the case to the motherboard. It was confusing but I got that straightened out from trial and error.
During my first boot up I got a blue screen. Restarted and things were okay. Then I got another and it started to dump the physical memmory(bluescreen). After that I restarted again and I acually got logged into windows. Everythings okay right?
Well I wanted to reinstall windows. I probably should have waiting to figure out that the problem was with the blue screen, but I didn't.
I went to bios and told my computer to boot from CD. I put windows Home Edition in and it started up. I finished formatting and just after that it does this quick setup thing. Setting up with files for after the format. It said some file was either kurrupt or missing I can't remember. (honestly I dont remember what it said.) I have to restart at this point.
NOW, I get this message in DOS mode.
"
NTLDR is missing
Press Ctl+ALT+Delt to restart.
"
I can't do much of anything except hit the bios right now.
I'm not sure what resetting the CMOS means. Could someone tell me what the means and what that does? How to do it? Also could someone please help me out I need my pc stable... What should I do?
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