(dfai44) wrote in message news:<. com>...
> i just replaced my old motherboard and processor. in my first attempt
> to boot my comp i went into the bios to see if my periphirals were all
> recognized and they were. i continued the boot sequence and it just
> stops and ask if i want to boot normal, safe, or last good boot.
> under normal it loops through above sequence. under safe mode it
> scrolls multi(0)disk(0)partition(1)window\sysytem32 followed by
> several different files. I tried to boot to the cdrom that came with
> the mother board unsucessfully. for some reason although i get the
> hard drive lite, i don't think it's being accessed. any help would be
> appreciated. i've installed 256 mb of dimm memory and the board has
> onboard video,lan, and sound. thanks for your help.
the problem was i had not reloaded my operating system. i did'nt think
to do so because i used the same hard drive. anyway after booting to
the op system cdrom everything works as advertised.