Computer help: Old Active HDD in new PC
Old Active HDD in new PC
by stowawaybanjo - 6/17/05 6:42 AMHey all, this is my first post here. Love the community.
Here's the situation:
I put a new PC together (first time)...
SPECs:
CPU: Intel P4 530 3.06Ghz w/ Arctic Freezer 7
MoBo: Abit AG8 915 NorthBridge Chipset LGA 775 Socket
RAM: PQI 1 Gig DDR 400 Single Channel
Media Drives: Lite-on DVD-RW
Vid Card: eVGA Nvidia 6800 GT
Floppy: From old system, dunnow.
I set-up CMOS (just loaded optimized settings and double checked everything to make it was correct) and tried starting windows... BSOD, so i tried safemode, it would stall with message saying:
Press Esc to skip a347bus.sys...
I pulled the drive out, put back in the old PC, found out that a347bus.sys was a driver used by a program I use called alcohol 120%... I uninstalled alcohol, rebooted, double checked my drivers folder, it was gone. I put the drive back into the new PC, boot up. There is no a347bus.sys error, but I still get the BSOD when trying to load windows. In safe mode it will load the drivers up to agp(something to that effect) and flashes the BSOD and reboots. My new system is PCIe, I dunnow if there's a conflict there. When the BSOD pops up, it just flashes then does a reboot ( I have no idea what it says). I've also tried setting CMOS to safest default settings and booting that way, all it does is check the mem and drives then boot. I tried starting windows in safemode, sm with cmd prompt, last know settings, regularly... I don't have a floppy boot disk, dunnow if I need one.
Do you have any advice? One thing I want to try is tapping the shift key to get to the dos, then disabling the sound driver??? it mentioned something about that in the back of the mobo manual under troubleshooting.
Let me know if you think of anything, I'm desperate... I was looking at SATA drivers and OEM Win XP Pro last night, just to start anew and avoid troubleshooting my old HDD.
I thank you for your help ahead of time!
One more thing...
by stowawaybanjo - 6/17/05 6:58 AM In reply to: Old Active HDD in new PC by stowawaybanjoMy old system also had an Nvidia card in it, with it's most current driver installed. Could the new card conflict with the old cards drivers?
Thanks.
Doomed
by Yew Anchors - 6/17/05 7:09 AM In reply to: Old Active HDD in new PC by stowawaybanjoWindows does NOT like being moved like you're trying to do, and while it can be done, it's far less work to simply format and start over.
/shakes fist at the Gods...
by stowawaybanjo - 6/17/05 9:16 AM In reply to: Doomed by Yew AnchorsI figured as much. Thanks for confirming.
Ah, I love being a newb!
What version windows are we dealing with?
by TONI H - 6/17/05 8:26 AM In reply to: Old Active HDD in new PC by stowawaybanjoThere are different techniques for troubleshooting depending on the version windows you have on the harddrive and you didn't mention that.
Is there on-board video and/or on-board sound...along with on-board modem and/or LAN ?
Setting it for last known configuration won't do you any good because the hardware is all changed now compared to before. Have you been able to get into safemode using the F8 key?
If you have on-board video, I would start with taking the new video card out and boot up with the on-board graphics, then enter the bios and begin disabling some of the on-board items such as LAN/Modem/Sound until you can get into safemode at least and can let us know you get that far.
Then we can go from there with disabling items in MSCONFIG from before, and removing items from Device Mgr that you plan to replace for hardware for the new system.
TONI
WinXP Home
by stowawaybanjo - 6/17/05 9:04 AM In reply to: What version windows are we dealing with? by TONI HWhoops, details, always forget those :P
Win XP Home SP2
Mobo has onboard sound and Gigabit Lan, I don't think it has on-board video.
I tried safemode, it started to load individual drivers, but then BSOD flashes on screen and the system reboots. It wasn't able to load Windows or even show the Windows load screen graphics.
The IT gentlemen at work say to uninstall drivers for the new devices, turn off AV software, reboot and install new devices. I think it would be simpler and wiser (to avoid the preverbial hiccups) to just do a reinstall of Windows. If you think this is not entirely necessary, let me know. I need as little down time with my machine as possible. All components of the PC are new, so I imagine it would not be the most stable PC on this side of Cleveland.
Born and bred in the 'mistake on the lake'
by TONI H - 6/17/05 9:33 AM In reply to: WinXP Home by stowawaybanjoand 'the river that caught fire' as well as 'mayor's hair up in flames' and Dennis the Menace Kucinich. LOL
XP is the problem here mainly because anytime you have hardware changes it keeps track, and once you reach six at a time (or in a very short period of time) or change the motherboard and/or CPU (which you've done), you are looking at having to reactivate the operating system.
Now, what I would suggest you do is change the bios to boot from the cdrom as the first device, put in the XP cd and boot up......now do an install right over the top of the old one so it can rewrite 'history' and the registry items regarding your hardware.
Most times, this reinstall (it will ask what partition you want this on in case you have more than one so choose the original location for the install...and it will appear for a while as if it is formatting the drive and starting over, but that isn't really the case) will leave your documents alone and other folders where you might have files stored; however, you may or may not have to reinstall some programs later but you won't know until you try to use them.
Once you get XP reinstalled, you can install your motherboard drivers, then your video, and other separate card devices such as modem, and firmware updates for your cdrom devices if there are any. If you can, get to the mfr sites for latest drivers for all your hardware ahead of time, then burn those to cd. Otherwise get them ASAP after doing the following:
Then activate XP ASAP again.......then get to the update center and update XP. Then do your AV and Spyware programs next before checking on other programs to see if they still work.
TONI
e-Bow
by stowawaybanjo - 6/17/05 12:16 PM In reply to: Born and bred in the 'mistake on the lake' by TONI HThank you, Toni.
I'm prolly going to dump any personal stuff from my C on to my storage drive and just wipe it clean. I have a dirty registry - tons of undeletable keys from my ole' Kazaa days. Thank fully I saved all the install files for most my apps on my storage drive, I don't think I have any more than 20 apps/codecs to install anyway.
Thank God I don't play MMO's anymore, I couldn't imagine having to reinstall one of those things then updating *thinks of Blizzards nightmarish BT updater*. Well I do play Guild Wars, but the client is server side.
Thanks again! I shall have a wonderful Friday night, reformatting my C, I wonder if my date will mind?
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