Help with new setup

[jamie.benstead]

I posted on here before about putting together a new computer for a freind and it not working. Well after getting a new mobo I found out it was the CPU that was broke, so yeah got a new one works fine. Now the problem is when I turn it on says windows cannot load maybe due to new hardware (didn't change the harddrive). If I click continue to load it starts to load and restarts. And if I put windows install disk in it loads all install files and then when it says Installer is starting windows computer just freezes. Does anyone know anything? Thanks

 

[kol_indian]

Welcome back to techspot :wave:

no for ur problem di u try formating ur hdd before re-installing, also are u getting any error message or BSOD when u are installing,

and before formatting just try out memtest it is available in the following website


www.memtest86.com

between if u dont have a floppy drive download the ISO version and burn it in a cd and run the test

 

[Grok451]

If you replaced the motherboard on a working system, chances are you need to reinstall Windows, unless the new motherboard is very similar to the original.

 

[jamie.benstead]

Yeah its a totally different mobo. I know I will have to reinstall windows but when I try to it will load the files of the cd and when it gets the to part where it says Installer is loading windows, it will freeze. So what can I do?
How do I re format a harddrive without going through windows?

 

[Grok451]

Are you booting from the Windows install CD to do the re-installation? If so, your hard disk shouldn't be the reason you're freezing. What mobo and processor are you building on?