Windows XP stuck in reboot cycle after installing a new motherboard and power supply?

K so a bit history first, I had an asus P4S800X motherboard, it did not have a SATA port so to install a new DVD Burner i just bought i had to get a motherboard with a SATA port.



My power supply was also making a lot of noise so i decided to change that as well.



So i found a used intel D865 motherboard along with an intel Pentium4 2.8Ghz processor and i also bought a used power supply. All of them were checked for an hour in the shop and gave no problems.. now when i installed in in my system. this is the configuration I have.



Sata 1 has the DVD Burner, Primary Mater has the hard drive (PATA/IDE), Secondary master and secondary slave have a CD ROM and DVD ROM respectively (both of them PATA/IDE)..



I installed all the cables according to the manual..



now the problem is that windows xp wont load, it is stuck in a reboot cycle, the time it is supposed to show the windows xp logo it just reboots.. i cant even start it up in safe mode.



I also have linux installed as dual boot and the computer can start up fine in linux.. but windows is giving the problem here.



any idea how I can fix this?Windows XP stuck in reboot cycle after installing a new motherboard and power supply?
If you want to save your dual boot HD setup, you may need to tread carefully here. Most linux installations will overwrite the WinXP boot setup and install their own bootloader program (allowing you to select which OS to boot into).



There's no way around it, if you want to get booting back into XP after a motherboard swap, you need to run the XP repair installation process, just be warned Linux may not be directly accessible after XP is done repairing. Windows doesn't %26quot;like%26quot; being a secondary OS, so it'll likely rebuild the MBR such that it, and only it, boots from that HD. It will not mess with your linux partition, though.



You need to find your WindowsXP CD to perform a %26quot;repair installation%26quot;. It sounds extreme, but this will not, in an of itself, wipe out the data you have on your XP boot drive. It'll only modify the underlying XP configuration to run in your new hardware.

If you don't have XP discs, maybe you can find your PC original discs (if this was a brand-name-PC). Here you need to be careful to avoid a full restore. Always pick %26quot;repair XP installation%26quot; option.



This will allow you to boot XP. It also restores all XP hardware drivers with those of the CD-ROM. Once you're back up, run the Windows Update application to receive all the security patches from Microsoft again.



If you're missing your XP discs, then get the phonebook and search for any computer repair shop, ask them for help. Any repair shop should have a XP CD to perform this. Should not cost you much. Let them know about your dual boot setup.



If your linux partition gets whacked, you can gain access to it by booting from a linux live-CD, or installing this driver in Windows: http://www.fs-driver.org/



CheersWindows XP stuck in reboot cycle after installing a new motherboard and power supply?
leave only hdd with system and disk drive connected to start up the pc configuring and saving BIOS.

one more thing:

if you've changed mother board then windows needs to be reinstalled.

don't know how you want to go about putting system on; have you got installation disk (should be no problem to load windows). if you've just swapped hdd then you'll need to reinstall the sys as well.Windows XP stuck in reboot cycle after installing a new motherboard and power supply?
When you change out a motherboard on an existing Windows install, this is going to happen. You will need to perform a repair install of Windows, which will require a Windows disc. There is no other way to fix then than either perform a repair install, or perform a fresh install of Windows.Windows XP stuck in reboot cycle after installing a new motherboard and power supply?
Yeah any time you do major hardware swap outs your gonna have that problem. just reinstall windows.



or if you want to back up your infomation swap back in your motherboard. Find a usb drive, external hdd. Or internal hdd and back everything up on that.



Or get a new hdd altogether and reinstall windows on new one, And plugin your old hdd, and pull off wuw from that one.



Theres several ways of going about this. those are just a few, more complicated ones