I had an AMD processor/motherboard, upgraded to a P4 with an ASUS
motherboard, and 756MB ram. Same hdd, dvd-drives,video card. After
installing the new mobo, bios recognizes hdd as primary master, dvds as
secondary master and slave.

After booting, I get the screen saying Windows failed to boot, possibly
because of a hardware change, and gives me the option to safe boot, etc, boot
normally. I rebooted and came right back to the same screen.

I then tried setting the boot sequence as floppy, cdrom then hdd to see if I
could boot to the CD and reinstall XP. Same result as before- the black
screen with the safe mode etc option.

ASUS tech support was less than helpful. They even suggested buying a
second XP cd to see if it would work! Right now I can't boot to floppy,
can't boot to CD, can't boot to hdd. ASUS said it was the way Windows works.
I don't believe them.

Does anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Dave

With asus were you getting tech support from the janitor or maybe mntce......
With a new board,one must reinstall xp,the old xp OS was configured to the
old board (chipset,processor,etc).Simply boot to the BIOS,set cdrom with xp
cd installed as 1st boot priority,set 2nd as hd.Once you save & exit,you
should
get a "boot to cd" option.Once at xp cd boot menu,select install xp,new copy,
delete the partition,create one,then xp formats & installs auto.....

"Dave" wrote:

> I had an AMD processor/motherboard, upgraded to a P4 with an ASUS
> motherboard, and 756MB ram. Same hdd, dvd-drives,video card. After
> installing the new mobo, bios recognizes hdd as primary master, dvds as
> secondary master and slave.
>
> After booting, I get the screen saying Windows failed to boot, possibly
> because of a hardware change, and gives me the option to safe boot, etc, boot
> normally. I rebooted and came right back to the same screen.
>
> I then tried setting the boot sequence as floppy, cdrom then hdd to see if I
> could boot to the CD and reinstall XP. Same result as before- the black
> screen with the safe mode etc option.
>
> ASUS tech support was less than helpful. They even suggested buying a
> second XP cd to see if it would work! Right now I can't boot to floppy,
> can't boot to CD, can't boot to hdd. ASUS said it was the way Windows works.
> I don't believe them.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave

"Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E66690C8-D341-480F-B874-343EBABE7567@microsoft.com...
>I had an AMD processor/motherboard, upgraded to a P4 with an ASUS
> motherboard, and 756MB ram. Same hdd, dvd-drives,video card. After
> installing the new mobo, bios recognizes hdd as primary master, dvds as
> secondary master and slave.
>
> After booting, I get the screen saying Windows failed to boot, possibly
> because of a hardware change, and gives me the option to safe boot, etc,
> boot
> normally. I rebooted and came right back to the same screen.
>
> I then tried setting the boot sequence as floppy, cdrom then hdd to see if
> I
> could boot to the CD and reinstall XP. Same result as before- the black
> screen with the safe mode etc option.
>
> ASUS tech support was less than helpful. They even suggested buying a
> second XP cd to see if it would work! Right now I can't boot to floppy,
> can't boot to CD, can't boot to hdd. ASUS said it was the way Windows
> works.
> I don't believe them.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave