Need help, just built a new comp..

kyleswitch

kyleswitch

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So, I just got all my parts put into my case and started it up. All the fans are running, Hard drive works, cd drive works, but it blue screens and tells me to restart it. The, I can only run it in safe mode.

I know there is new hardware and this needs to all be updated, btu idk how to use BIOS or anything.

I need some help.
 
It basically blue screens of death because of all the new hardware. It's a completely new build except the hard drive with the OS on it. I'm thinking of just buying a new hard drive and I have windows 7 for it.
 
Can you tell us exactly what hardware changes you have made, the way you have put it is you have made a new computer but have a HDD with a OS already installed on it?
 
you can't just whack a hard drive with your old OS onto a new computer. that's why you are bluescreening.

your best bet is to go into safe mode and uninstall everything in device manager. then restart and install the proper drivers.

Or you could just get windows 7, a new hdd and do a fresh install. best method imo.
 
Everything is new, CPU, ram, mobo, psu, gpu and case.

And yes that's what I did. I put my old hard drive in there with an OS already on it.
 
kyleswitch said:
Or how can I completely wipe this hard drive I have and just add windows 7 to that?
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First the problem is the OS cannot recornise all the new hardware and so thats why you are getting the BSOD, to solve this you should use the system rescue cd and save all your saved files you want onto a flash drive or other storage drive, or if you can get into windows using safe mode do it that way as your going to have to reinstall the OS with all the new hardware plugged in.

If you want to install windows 7 and you arn't bothered about the data on the disk thats just a simple case of formatting the disk which can be done by putting the windows cd into the cd drive. When you turn on your system and the bios starts it will autamatically boot into a windows setup screen, follow instructions from there to format the HDD and install windows 7.

If when you turn on your system with the OS cd in and the bios starts it doesn't load you into the windows setup screen and the BSOD appears then you will need to go to the bios(bios and cmos are basically the same, the words are interchangable), do this by rebooting the computer and keep tapping the delete key(or it might by the F2 key)until you see the bios and change the startup options from whatever its setup to to load from the cd drive first and try booting up again.

Let me know how you get on.

Luke
 
So the BIOS thing didnt work, but I think it's because I tried reloading the XP OS. I can't find my windows 7 disk. Ill worry about windows 7 later.

But I cant seem to reformat my Hard drive in safe mode.
 
Ill have to find something cheap and soon so I can stress test, run benchmarks and just basically make sure all the parts work.

Any place I can get Windows 7 for cheaper than newegg...?
 
StrangleHold said:
You cant format the partition the OS is on while in windows. Does it have XP on it now.
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Yes, it does have XP on it now, and I have no other OS to put on it, and not to mention how expensive it is to get 7.

Was planning on my HDD with XP on it to work in this build with ALL new parts. but I was wrong :o
 
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