Windows rebooting issue

[Apocolypse007]

Not too long ago I ditched my core 2 platform for my new thuban, which is working ok. So I decided that I would put my core 2 parts into my parents PC, which is badly in need of an upgrade.

Old Parts:
Athon 64 Venice 3500+
ASRock Sata II motherboard
OCZ RAM 2GB DDR

New Parts:
Core 2 Duo 6420
Gigabyte 965p ds3
2 Gigs Supertalent DDR2 RAM

I have run the new parts going into the system for months on end so I know they work. When I swapped the parts out and rebooted, the system detects the hard drive properly and tries to boot windows (he is running Windows Vista Business). The windows loading screen appears and starts to animate, then the screen flickers and the system restarts. The same think happens when I tried to restart into safe mode.

I then went into the BIOS and set all settings back to factory defaults. This was to make sure that my (now formerly overclocked) CPU didn't have any odd issues with his computer. The same problem occurs. And on top of that, I think the factory defaults disabled legacy USB keyboard support, so now I need to find a PS2 keyboard to even work on the thing any further.

Does anyone know what I can do to fix this? If all else fails, I could just put all of his old parts back and call it quits, but it took me all day to get this thing set up and swap out parts and I would hate for nothing to come out of it.

 

[hellrazor]

Nice old specs

 

[DannibusX]

Did you reinstall Windows when you swapped the hardware?

 

[Asylum]

If your useing his old hard drive on your newer parts...There is where the problem lies.

You will need to reformat his hard drive and install all updates for your parts to solve the problem.

Do you have a hard drive you could format with?

Then when you get it set up you can get his files from the old one.

 

[TheLaughingMan]

What they said. You should need a new HDD to format that one, just boot from the install CD/DVD and when prompted or allowed, delete the old partition, format, then let the disk reinstall everything from scratch.

You, usually (unless it is the same board or series sometimes) change a mobo without a full reinstall.

You may have to put all the old stuff back in to backup any data they want to keep.

 

[Apocolypse007]

Thanks for the replies guys. Do you think the vista disk could be used to repair the installation? I may try that tomorrow. It doesn't delete any files does it?

The only spare hdd I have is an 80GB laptop hdd (from a busted PS3). My parents have irreplaceable files (family pics mostly), so I cant reformat their normal use drive. So i guess I'll try the repair option first, then I'll try to reformat the old PS3 drive and install Vista on it, then boot and try and fix things that way. If that works, I'll still have to find a way to get vista to run from their Seagate drive (their main drive from before parts swap) instead of the PS3 drive, which I assume may slow down their PC.

 

[TheLaughingMan]

Option B. Take the HDD to your place. Connect it to your computer and copy the files to your secondary HDD. Then when you reformat and get their computer back on its feet, you can do it one more time, and put it all back in the My Document folders just like you found them.

Backups are temporary in this case, there is no need to add in parts to become permanent parts to the computer.

And like I said, if you have all the original parts you just replaced, put them back in, put hte 80 GB as a secondary HDD, boot normally, back up files. Put new parts in back in, reformat, copy files from 80 back to primary and remove it.

 

[Apocolypse007]

I've figured out a solution. For some odd reason, windows wouldn't boot with the normal sata port, but this particular board also has 2 extra sata ports that are controlled by a seperate chip. This chip never worked with my own hard drives, but just for the hell of it, I decided to try switching the hard drive to this port. It finally booted windows and is now running ok. Now I just need to fine tune settings in the bios and I will be golden.

Everyone that suggested solutions will be getting a thanks!

edit:
http://www.gigabyte.us/FileList/Image/motherboard_productimage_ga-965p-ds3_big.jpg

See how there are orange and purple ports? I switched the hdd from the orange port to the purple one.