Please help, XP wont boot after new mombo?

[deviousdoses]

Please anybody..... everybody... Help!

I had a P3/slot mobo running solid for a few tyears, all of a sudden everything froze, now it wont boot.... determined it was the board, boots up fine till it init's the peripherals then just keeps rebooting, same tghing under linux.....

So instead of waisting a few hundred on new mobo, decided to spend a few hundred to get a whole new mobo cpu and ram...

I baught an Asus A7S... with athlon XP 1800+ and ddr ram....

I can boot into linux using all original hardware , Holy Smoke is it fast...

But when I boot in to XP, tsk tsk.... It comes up to my logon screen, but I can't enter my pass word cause the keyboard and mouse are dead at this point, but it boots up ionto windows fine, no blue screens? but I can't login?!? Also I noticed the drivers a re pooched as it comes up in 320X240 or whatever....

I know now theres a new chipset, and a few more things that windows probably doesn't know how to deal with like the new hd controlloer (not raid just ata 133)...

any thaughts?

I moved my secondary (swap hd) to a different place, but like I said I can still boot my other linux partition just fine?

Please any help would be GREATLY Appreciated


Thanx in advance...

[chubtub]

If I understand you right you took out the old motherboard and threw in the new one and hooked everything up? Without reformatting the HD?

If this is what you did you will most likely have to reinstall XP. The Bios has changed which means the device setting have changed and so on. Plus physical devices on the MB have changed.

It is best just to reinstall rather than trying to get it to work. It is just too much for the OS to keep up with. In the long run you will save time with a reinstall.

By the way Welcome to SysOpt:)

[deviousdoses]

You are reading write, the problem with that is that the C drive is NTFS and all other partitions are fat32, so under linux I can backup everything to dvd-RAM.... but since I have emails and other date I would like to backup I don't want to just "re-install"...

I don't think Im having the probs most people have when doing what I did, as they usually get an error message telling that they have done something security related....

anyhow, linux boots up just fine, so does windows, it just lock out the peripherals when the login screen comes, if i could edit my autoexec to automatically log in, im sure I could boot into xp, but for now it's stuck...

[j.m@talk]

Try booting up with the windows cd & refresh the beasty........
Any thing is better than having to re-do everything from scratch :(