Re: Windows 2000 hangs at startup after processor change

Head Hunter <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote

But, why wouldn't it work again after putting the original CPU into it?

Did he reset the cmos and bios ?

Also, my friend did that over the weekend. No change.

Try resetting the cmos, that should fix it. If it doesnt,
he's broken something when he changed the cpu.


"JAD" <kapasitor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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bios update to offically accept the new CPU

there would be no reason for windows to be the culprit, and
certainally a re install is not going to fix it.



"Head Hunter" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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No more ideas? Not even "yup, you need to reinstall/repair"?

"Head Hunter" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ok, guys, I have a wierd one here. A friend of mine is running a
home-built with an Athlon 2400+ XP CPU. He wanted to upgrade his
CPU higher, and his manual said he could go upt to a 3000+. I
found him one
on E-bay and sent it to him. The CPU would start, and he could go
into the BIOS, but it wouldn't boot. Oh, well, he swiched back to
his old CPU. However, now when his system starts, it goes through the BIOS, he
gets the single beep, it goes to the black "Starting Windows"
screen, the white bar goes across the bottom of the screen, and
the system stops. No error messages, no other beeps, nothing. He
left it sitting for 2 hours one to see if it was just thinking
really hard. Nothing. We have tried resetting the BIOS to defaults. No change. We
cleared the
CMOS. No change. We disconnected the cables and re-seated them. No change. He
tried creating the 4 startup floppies on another
computer and using them. It goes through all 4 floppies, gets to
the blue Starting Windows screen, and stops. We can't swap
momory, because his motherboard only has one DIMM and, with only
one, it only works in one particular memory slot.

He can't re-install Windows at the moment because his CD has a
crack. I
am sending him mine (he has him own key code) but he is in
Colorado and I am in Calif, so he won't get until next week. I am
also sending him a spare HD I have that has Win2000 on it, in case
he need to boot from it to repair his drive.

Can anyone out there give me any other ideas? We are stumped. We
saw in one old post on the ASUS web site about running fixmbr, but
that assumes
his CD works and/or it will boot from the floppies.

HELP? Anyone? Thanks in advance.


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