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Darkflame

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Alright, I'm a total noob here, and I apologize for my first post being a question, but this is something I can't seem to resolve on my own, so I came here seeking help.

Just yesterday I purchased some new components with which I planned to upgrade my system. I was running a worthless old Celeron 2.66 GHz processor with an Abit motherboard and an ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card. Yeah, I know, awful. So yesterday I went out, bought an Athlon 64 3800 (socket 939), Asus A8N-SLI deluxe mobo, and ATI Radeon x1600 pro graphics card. When I installed all the new components, everything seemed to be running okay, until Windows (xp pro) loaded. Then, I got a blue screen error telling me that windows had detected a problem and shut itself down to prevent damage to my computer.

Anyone have any ideas as to what caused this? I can't seem to figure it out myself (hard drive worked fine with the old components and in another machine), so anything you all can come up with would be helpful.
 
Hopefully you enabled Plug'n'Play support as well as changed the default PCI setting to PCI-Express in the bios when first setting the time and date. Did you see any specific error code along with the message. I can easily throw a link for the different causes for seeing that message. The error code number can be look up at http://www.smartcomputing.com/techsupport/ErrorBrowse.aspx?guid=&num=201 It could very easily be seen for different reasons like mismatched memory for example. The error code number will help pinpoint the actual cause.
 
You didn't reload your OS, did you? Windows XP doesn't play nicely when you do major hardware upgrades. Unfortunetly, it'll probably also think that's a new computer if you try and reload it, so you'd probably need to contact MS about the key, or just purchase a new copy.
 
The_Other_One said:
You didn't reload your OS, did you? Windows XP doesn't play nicely when you do major hardware upgrades. Unfortunetly, it'll probably also think that's a new computer if you try and reload it, so you'd probably need to contact MS about the key, or just purchase a new copy.
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what classifies a major hardware upgrade??? i would think switching the motherboard might be the only thing that affects the OS, and of course the hdd.
 
When I put the new board in the old case I simply performed a repair install to get rid of the old Socket A board drivers to allow XP to redetect what it needed for the new 939 model with the obvious 64bit cpu on top of that. But that was soon wiped anyway after having bought a new drive when thinking the old one instead of the board was failing. Well at least I was able to redo everything on short notice and end up with a better machine with two instead of one drive along with throwing all this into a new case as well. Gosh I like seeing board temps at 31C when idle. :D
 
Thanks for all the help, guys. The repair install didn't work, so I just deleted my old partitions, reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled Windows. This used to be my backup machine anyways, so there wasn't anything on that hard drive I particularly needed. ^^ Anyways, thanks for the info/advice.
 
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