Reboot During Startup

[BlaineSch]

Well if you have not noticed I have been playing around with a ton of hardware recently, I never really cared about it having the "Im just a programmer" attitude, but its really quite interesting, and obviously you can tell from all the forum posts a bit difficult...

Anywho well basically I got new ram for my computer, it turned out it was incompatible (got 6 beeps or something from my mb), I remember I had another motherboard somewhere, still integrated into a chassis I just put all the parts, new ram, dvd drive, harddrive. The motherboard, processor, and 2 fans were already installed.

I successfully turned it on, could run into bios, dvd drive, ram, and hdd was detected fine it looked like, but when I ran to get my OS on it started then rebooted, then started, and rebooted... endless cycle..

What could possibly be wrong? I tried replacing out a few other things like my power thing which I know works since I am using it now, and the hdd is working now, the dvd drive works etc... but what else could it be? Just a bad motherboard? Or processor? That is really the only two things left...

[xXHalfSliceXx]

Ya. I had that problem too right now. From what i have read, there is a hardware issue. On most its the HD going out.

[BlaineSch]

Well I am using the hdd now so I do not think thats it, just cause it works on this box.

[Jordan]

Did you take your harddrive from your other computer out and put it in this one, with Windows already installed?

[BlaineSch]

Current computer, I took most of its parts, and put it into the other computer case that already had a motherboard and a processor.

So yes, the current one with XP pro, I took it out and put it in the other one.. the processors are the same I think tho

[Turk4n]

Just wondering, did you successfully boot up to XP or what happen can I have more info ?

[BlaineSch]

I did not actually, basically I got some ram, it didnt work in my computer, so I tried putting some parts together and seeing if my ram would work in my other motherboard which it did but it wouldnt load xp correctly, the hdd is fine since I am using it now, and the power thing is fine since I used it, I switched out the ram and all of them showed up in the bios including the one I am using now.

[Turk4n]

I did not actually, basically I got some ram, it didnt work in my computer, so I tried putting some parts together and seeing if my ram would work in my other motherboard which it did but it wouldnt load xp correctly, the hdd is fine since I am using it now, and the power thing is fine since I used it, I switched out the ram and all of them showed up in the bios including the one I am using now.

Okay, I have no go on the problem...srry

[BlaineSch]

Oh well =/

The guy said he would exchange my ram for the correct kind (low intensity?) so I should be fine with the box I got now