To anyone who might be able to share your experience or knowledge that might save me to fork out cash when i dont need to. My mobo as mentioned above will not boot into windows. It all started when my CMOS batt died and i decided to upgrade my ram at the same time. i bought a kingston ddr 1GB ram and a new cmos batt,when i put it all in. I had this error 1st . "overclocking failed" and cant boot into windows.. after tons of research over the net,million ppl asked to clear cmos by using jumpers and remove batt. That didnt help.

Then i thought it was a overheating issue,checked temperature 50-52c ,so cant be that. PSU 480 watts new,still cant. Put back my old ram and removed the new kingston ram,still cant.Took my HDD and used on another desktop,can boot.

After resetting cmos,i get a new error , "New Cpu Found" everytime i hit defaults and save F10,it reboots to the same screen and asked me the same thing over and over again.

Then I updated to the most recent bios . 1012 i think cant remember but its the most recent, now ,theres no error msg BUT ...it boots until "Start Windows Normally / Last known Good Configuration / Safe Mode" when i use and of these options it will reboot back to post and this repeat over and over again.

Im seriously stuck now , i cant seem to get anymore info or possibilities what might have or IS causing this. Just before the cmos batt died and change of ram my pc was FINE. Anyones help is very much appreciate it.

Thanks for your time.

p4p800s-X
3.0Ghz pentium 4
ATI Radeon 9600PRO
500GB Seagate.
Windows XP.
1GB Ram Kingston / 512MB Apacer.
Samsung DVD writer.

This is my current setup except the ram,im using my old ram 1st Apacer 512mb until i manage to figure out this issue.

Due to the previous crashes your OS might be corrupted now that you might have solved the other problem with BIOS. Suggest you use the Windows CD and initiate a repair of the Windows installation.

Might be also that when you connected the HDD to another computer it installed the drivers for that PC and now when you connect back it sees different drivers and they are clashing hence why it crashes. Again try the repair.

Experienced this many times as sadly XP is a fragile OS when it comes to Hardware changes.

I hope that helps

when i boot my windows xp cd , choose repair nothing happens , it always says checking then type exit to cancel , am i suppose to wait for a long time or? so sorry ive never attempted a repair , when i choose repair i see nothing happening i assume im suppose to exit...

Oh ok, you should not choose repair, that is for disk repairs and other management repairs which is kinda complicated.

Go futher until it comes to the screen where you are about to install Windows. Once you go on, it will say that it has found a previous version of windows, then choose repair installation.

OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bro Rvin !!!! i love you !!!!!!!!!!! ive tried everything but THAT !!! i used tht repair tool before the install section !!! i just google how to repar Xp BOOT and it works !!! how can i ever thanbk you ..... i owe you big time...the whole world didnt suggest this to me !! youre the only one !! hahahahaha thanks 1

Ah ok cool. MBR repair and Boot repair, just sometimes it fails and corrupts the partition and your files will be lost so you have to be careful there. That's why its safer to do it the other way I mentioned.

No problem, glad to help