Help Help Help will not start windows

[drozman]

I am building a PC. I dont have much cash, so I purchased a biostar N68S3+ , a AMD Sempron145 processor and 4GB (2X2gb) GSKILL Ram. I installed this in a old emachine case. It has a 160gb EIDE hard drive (temporary) till I can afford a larger sata. running windows xp home 32bit.

When I boot the system a window pops up for a few seconds showing it is recognizing everything, then it goes to screen and says windows will start normaly in like 19 seconds. after the count down screen goes dark a few seconds then goes back to first screen where it is recognizing everything again, then back to windows will start normally in so many sec.

I tried this a couple of times and also got message CMOS checksum bad and one time I received a message DQS training failed on previous boot revert to slower dram speed. ( I dont know how to revert lower ram speed)

[BeeCeeBee]

If I am reading this correctly you installed a new MOBO, CPU and other hardware into an old case and then tried to boot from an older Hard Drive that already had Windows installed. That is not going to work and what to do depends on whether you have a full retail copy of windows. If this HDD came from a computer with windows preinstalled it will only work with that same motherboard etc. Microsoft will not allow you to use it in what is essentially an entirely different machine.

[KenB]

As BeeCeeBee says - if you HAVE used an old hard drive with Windows on it the system is not going to boot.

 

The solution is a Repair Install of Windows XP

You should not lose any data / files etc. but you do need the original XP installation disk.

 

If you have it we can go from there.