well I just built a barebone and finally got the screen to recognize the computer. and so I put in the vista disc and it loaded up and I chose my hard drive. and it installed when it restarted the vista loading bar came up then went to a blue screen really quick(I cant even read it) then it restarts and repeats and never loads. I cannot figure out the problem. Is it something to do with the bios, ive never used a SATA drive, so idk if its something to do with that? please help.
Hard Drive(SATA) wont boot after installing vista. HELP
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bigrich0086
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thats cause you can not pop hard drives in and out form other computers. The software and drivers for each motherboard is different. There for the computer will not boot with a diff computers os configured.
Run Memtest86 and see if your ram is bad. Usually when ram is bad sometimes wont go past the loading screen. If you loaded vista no problem on the hard drive its something else which leads to the ram since theres no gfx drivers installed yet to cause the BSOD
Run Memtest86 and see if your ram is bad. Usually when ram is bad sometimes wont go past the loading screen. If you loaded vista no problem on the hard drive its something else which leads to the ram since theres no gfx drivers installed yet to cause the BSOD
bigrich0086
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yes the only way to make the motherboard accept a newly formatted hard drive is reinstall xp or vista on that hard drive in the computer the hard drive will be used.
forgive me because im a bit slow on this stuff, so I will explain to you what happened. I bought a new CPU, HDD and disk drive. My friend gave me the rest of the gear to install. Him and I built it, everything started all right then we put the OS in(windows vista ultimate) and it installs successfully. When it goes to boot the OS it comes up saying windows has failed to start, this could be due to recent hardware change. And it gives me the options to run in safe mode, etc. And when I choose any of those options a blue screen comes up(I cant even read it, its so fast) and then restarts and repeats the same process. You were saying about the motherboard since it was used for a different OS. So is there a way I can use a brand new hard drive with the mobo? Can you explain in more detail on what to do and how?
Thanks
Thanks
I bought a new CPU, HDD and disk drive.
It sounds to me like you may have changed too many parts - and your OEM copy of windows is seeing your PC as a new computer. Consequently - your copy of windows does not work. If you had a retail version of Windows ( which cost more - but is portable from one PC to another ) you can swap out as many parts as you like.
I'd see if someone else agrees with my conclusion - as I just know of this happening in theory - not sure what exactly triggers OEM not to work. Perhaps if you changed one part at a time - it would work - but not sure.
If you re-installed your old CPU - I'm guessing it would work again.
It sounds to me like you may have changed too many parts - and your OEM copy of windows is seeing your PC as a new computer. Consequently - your copy of windows does not work. If you had a retail version of Windows ( which cost more - but is portable from one PC to another ) you can swap out as many parts as you like.
I'd see if someone else agrees with my conclusion - as I just know of this happening in theory - not sure what exactly triggers OEM not to work. Perhaps if you changed one part at a time - it would work - but not sure.
If you re-installed your old CPU - I'm guessing it would work again.
Not true. The computer would still boot up to the desktop but then would say you need to reactivate cause of hardware changes. It's either a bad motherboard or a different hardware issue. The info off the blue screen would be needed to determine what was actually wrong.