Hi there,
I am looking for some info and i hoope here is the best place to look!
I had a Asrock motherboard, for get the model, with a Sempron 3200+ and 2 512 sticks of DDR memory which was 4 years old. Yesterday i got fed up with the problems i was having so i went to a cheapo fair and got a ASUS K8N motherboard socked 754 i think and a AMD 64 3000+ chip and a new PC400 memory 1GB double sided DIMM. It may also be worth noting i have a Gforce 6600 AGP and a new 500W powersupply.
After i plugged everything in, the machine refused to boot off the hard drive. The 80 gig MAXTOR i have was split into 2 partitions. After the full day of trying to get around this, i ended up just deleting everything with a clean format.
However i still get the same error. The windows XP PRo is found in the CDROM drive but thats as far as i get. Once the drive is formatted, the computer restarts after copying setup files, then i get the same problems again. I cant even install a new copy of windows because it is basically saying my drive is non bootable.
Now, forgive my computer knowledge, but im guessing that i need a 64Bit version of windows to go with the 64 bit chip i got? Is this correct or should it not make a difference?
Thanks.
C
I am looking for some info and i hoope here is the best place to look!
I had a Asrock motherboard, for get the model, with a Sempron 3200+ and 2 512 sticks of DDR memory which was 4 years old. Yesterday i got fed up with the problems i was having so i went to a cheapo fair and got a ASUS K8N motherboard socked 754 i think and a AMD 64 3000+ chip and a new PC400 memory 1GB double sided DIMM. It may also be worth noting i have a Gforce 6600 AGP and a new 500W powersupply.
After i plugged everything in, the machine refused to boot off the hard drive. The 80 gig MAXTOR i have was split into 2 partitions. After the full day of trying to get around this, i ended up just deleting everything with a clean format.
However i still get the same error. The windows XP PRo is found in the CDROM drive but thats as far as i get. Once the drive is formatted, the computer restarts after copying setup files, then i get the same problems again. I cant even install a new copy of windows because it is basically saying my drive is non bootable.
Now, forgive my computer knowledge, but im guessing that i need a 64Bit version of windows to go with the 64 bit chip i got? Is this correct or should it not make a difference?
Thanks.
C