Guest owconway Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Hi hope someone can help with this: I moved my harddrive from a P3 to a P4 system. System will do initial bootup, but gets to the message screen that states "apologizes for the inconvenience", makes the safe mode,saft mode with Networking, etc.... Last known good configuration and the starting Windows normally statement. I've tried all options offered with no success. I have attempted to repair the problem with fixmbr and fixboot, still no luck. I've checked the ram in another system, it runs fine. Frustration levels are going up a notch, anyone with an idea, please let me hear from you. Thanks
Guest R. McCarty Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Re: XP in constant loop You have a new/different Chipset on the P4 system. This means that the driver for your mass storage devices is different. To get the system to run will require a Repair or In-Place upgrade with the Windows CD. This must be done correctly or you can end up overwriting the existing instance of XP. Some helpful information can be found here on Repair Installs. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm "owconway" <owconway@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:14587264-83A4-4AFD-8E1E-65C96B937650@microsoft.com... > Hi hope someone can help with this: > > I moved my harddrive from a P3 to a P4 system. System will do initial > bootup, but gets to the message screen that states "apologizes for the > inconvenience", makes the safe mode,saft mode with Networking, etc.... > Last > known good configuration and the starting Windows normally statement. I've > tried all options offered with no success. I have attempted to repair the > problem with fixmbr and fixboot, still no luck. I've checked the ram in > another system, it runs fine. Frustration levels are going up a notch, > anyone > with an idea, please let me hear from you. Thanks >
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