Hello all, I just built a new system for a friend of mine today. The system consists of the following.
E8400
MSI P7N SLI
XFX 9800 GTX
4 Gig Corsair
250G using IDE
2 DVD RW IDE

The system boots and I am able to get into the bios. The bios recognizes the cpu , ram and all drives. After bios loads I receive the screen that you would normally see after an unexpected shutdown. Windows did not properly shutdown, would you like to boot in safe, last know working config, ect.
I choose one of the above and all I see is a quick blue screen and the system reboots. This is a perpetual cycle that I cannot fix. I have tried everything. New cables, changed jumpers, tried IDE 2, disconnected DVD drives and nothing works. So my question is do I need to reformat the hard drive and reinstall windows? Since the bios recognizes the cpu I doubt a flash would help.I just built a similar system and windows booted right up using my old drive so I'm curious as to why this wont work.

Please help!!! I am at a loss.

Quickie answer, may not be correct.

I suspect a dll was not installed properly or is corrupted.

If correct, yepper, time to reformat/reinstall.

I am pretty sure this will be the end result but the odd thing is that the hard drive was pulled of a workign system not even an hour before. He was playing BF2142

When you change Hard drives you need to do a reinstall of windows or atleast a repair of windows. I dont recommend a repair because it leaves to much crap that can cause problems.

Your hard drive has drivers and registrys of the other computer that it is looking for and cant find because the hardware is different.

Did you do a clean install of windows??

hi
when you change computer hardware like HDD or processor then windows does not recognise it as it's not present in the hardware profile,but upgrades in ram don't affect the OS.You will have to install new OS because the hardware(HDD) in your case was changed

If you are using your dive to boot from and not a clean install, yes, you have system driver problem errors.
Go into the Bios settings and change the auto restart option on system failure (or shutdown) to see
your BSOD message 0x00000whatever error and Google it to se whats crashing your system.

I have the same problem!!!! I tried two different HDS. Seagate n Maxtor.
Same screen and all! Finally a person wit the same problem as me. So just reinstall a windows? N that'll fix the problem!