Blue Screen Of Death!

[Skink]

I actually checked online because my manual felt a bit light, and the general manual for the series of mobos is twice as big as the one mine came with, so I kicked the wall. It is not a problem with the BIOS. I've set it to fail-safe defaults, optimized defaults, my defaults, and gone through everything on tomshardware that said could be interrupting the starup. It's not the BIOS. The BIOS detects my HDD and is actually the best BIOS I've ever used (the reason why I bought DFI).

If you insist on doing something,go to the micrsoft site and get xp recovery disks and do a "fixboot"... You may be able to boot into dos... If you can't find the boot disks I think I have a set ...

[bonsaiguy]

XP is much more keyed to hardware changes than it's predecessors. It's a "security" feature that MS came up with to minimize piracy. In this case you have changed he mother, memory, bus, etc, a lot of changes all at once. I agree that you should find some old DOS disks, or a '98 boot disk, and boot to a floppy (remember those?) just to make sure all of your hardware is correctly connected and working together. If you have a copy of Ghost (my personal preference) or Nero you can image the drive with the old (intel) setup prior to putting in the new hardware and should be able to recover all of your valuable data. Odds are that you will have to re-install XP after wiping the HDD but you can first try doing a repair if you can boot to an XP CD. This might get the machine to a point where it will boot to the HDD and allow you to install the the new drivers. But if it fails, you can still restore the drive from your image. With an image you can experiment a bit and not have to worry about losing your data. This is all assuming you have an actual XP install disk and not some funky recovery disk.

[eddievanzant]

My boot discs no longer work because I have upgraded every part of my pc, which is why I'm now dling xp with azureus. It will be dled and nurnt in 20 min so hopefully, I will be playing Bf1942 with an overclocked CPU in a half hour.
edit: I'm leaving my error in place because nurnt is funny.