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About six weeks ago I upgraded my memory. About three weeks ago I
replaced my power supply and the heatsink and fan on my processor (in
order to quite the PC), I then had a minor tragedy and my motherboard
died. I took the PC to a local repair shop and they installed a new
motherboard for me. They also installed a new heatsink and fan
because they broke the old one when removing it.
Since all of these upgrades/repairs I have been unable to boot my PC.
A friend of mine helped me recover the data I wanted from the hard
drive, which we then reformatted. I then used the restore CD's (these
came with the PC and I think they contain an OEM copy of XP Home,
which I bought from PC World - It is an e-machines 180). Since using
the restore CD's I have not been able to fully boot up the PC.
When I push the start button I get a black screen on which is some
white writing. The white writing goes into some blurb about an
hardware upgrde. It then offers me some options such as: boot in
safe mode, boot to last working configuration etc. (I think there are
four options in total). Which ever I press, what happens is the
screen just flashes and I then go back to the beginning of the POST.
I have been given a CD by the repair shop which contains the drivers
for the motherboard, which I have not yet installed. A friend of mine
suggested that the new motherboard may not be able to 'see' the other
hardware, but I have been into the BIOS and it recognises the correct
processor, hard drive and memory etc.
I have no idea what to do next. I once read in a magazine that
Microsoft only allows four changes to hardware in any two month period
or something. I don't know if this is true. Does anyone have any
ideas that do not involve purchasing a new operating system?
About six weeks ago I upgraded my memory. About three weeks ago I
replaced my power supply and the heatsink and fan on my processor (in
order to quite the PC), I then had a minor tragedy and my motherboard
died. I took the PC to a local repair shop and they installed a new
motherboard for me. They also installed a new heatsink and fan
because they broke the old one when removing it.
Since all of these upgrades/repairs I have been unable to boot my PC.
A friend of mine helped me recover the data I wanted from the hard
drive, which we then reformatted. I then used the restore CD's (these
came with the PC and I think they contain an OEM copy of XP Home,
which I bought from PC World - It is an e-machines 180). Since using
the restore CD's I have not been able to fully boot up the PC.
When I push the start button I get a black screen on which is some
white writing. The white writing goes into some blurb about an
hardware upgrde. It then offers me some options such as: boot in
safe mode, boot to last working configuration etc. (I think there are
four options in total). Which ever I press, what happens is the
screen just flashes and I then go back to the beginning of the POST.
I have been given a CD by the repair shop which contains the drivers
for the motherboard, which I have not yet installed. A friend of mine
suggested that the new motherboard may not be able to 'see' the other
hardware, but I have been into the BIOS and it recognises the correct
processor, hard drive and memory etc.
I have no idea what to do next. I once read in a magazine that
Microsoft only allows four changes to hardware in any two month period
or something. I don't know if this is true. Does anyone have any
ideas that do not involve purchasing a new operating system?