New MoBo and GPU, and Now I'm Ready to Take the Shotgun to It.

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I recently just purchased some upgrades for my computer. I started with an HP Slimline S3120N, and gutted it out. I took the Athlon 64 X2 (W) 4000+ 2.2 GHz (65W) 2000 MT/s (mega transfers/second) Socket AM2 processor, the 2 GB's of Samsung PC2-5300 MB/sec 240 pin, DDR2 SDRAM memory, the 16X DVD(+/-)R/RW 12X RAM (+/-)R DL LightScribe SATA drive, and the 320 GB SATA 3G (3.0 Gb/sec) 7200 rpm hard drive out. Put it in a new case with a 550 watt power supply, a new CPU fan on an Asus M3A78-T motherboard, and installed a new EVGA 512-P3-N954-TR GeForce 9500 GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card. I have double checked all my connections, flashed my BIOS to the latest version from the ASUS site, and I still get nothing more than the POST testing done, and I am able to get to the BIOS screen. It tries to boot the operating system which is Vista 32bit (which I hate even before all of this), but it either tells me it needs to repair itself, which it goes to a system check and then says it can't fix itself, and if I try to boot it without it trying to repair itself, I then get a blue screen (which I think is the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH) that goes by so fast I don't even know what it says. I am ready to take my shotgun to it and relieve myself of all of my problems. Any suggestions?
 
If you replaced the motherboard then that is the problem. You can't replace the motherboard with a different one and expect it to boot up properly without at least doing a repair install, the hardware is all different.
 
Yes. The only things that actually were transferred over from the HP Slimline were the HDD, the DVD/CDRW, and the Processor. Everything else is brand new.
 
Your best bet would be to do a fresh install. Backup any data that you need saved first. You'll have less headaches later if you just do a fresh install instead of a repair install, which sometimes don't work out really well.
 
Yah just reinstall the operating system on the new motherboard becasue what is happening is even though your os on the hardrive its looking for it to be registered to that specific motherboard and when you replaced the motherboard with a new one its not finding that specifc trigger that tells the computer.
 
Thanks guys. I had one of my co-workers tell me that just a few minutes ago also. Now my challenge is to be able to pull all the stuff off of my HDD that I still want, and also making sure I have all the disks for everything as well. Thanks again.
 
If you have an extra hardrive or dont mind buying one for a cheaper price you could install the os on that hardrive and just keep everything on your old one and once you boot windows change the directory or copy everything over to your new hardrive
 
bigd54 that will be my next step. My buddy told me that I could call Windows and they will walk me through a sequence to reauthenticate Windows on my set up. So I am going to see if this is true, and if not I am going to go with the extra HDD, because I have photos that got put on my HDD that I have now that didn't make it to my external HDD when all this started to happen.
 
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It tries to boot the operating system which is Vista 32bit (which I hate even before all of this), but it either tells me it needs to repair itself, which it goes to a system check and then says it can't fix itself, and if I try to boot it without it trying to repair itself, I then get a blue screen (which I think is the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH) that goes by so fast I don't even know what it says. I am ready to take my shotgun to it and relieve myself of all of my problems.
 
Microsoft does not like when you transfer OEM Windows from HP or similar to your new computer. When you call and talk to guys in India you would have to lie that your old mobo burned out and HP sent you a new ones :P)
 
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