New poster here so I wanted to start of by saying thanks for all of the information on here and the oppurtunity to request help. I searched for a similar thing and even went through the tutorials and was unable to get anything resolved. So here goes nothing.
Mobo: Biostar TF7050-M2
4 gig of OCZ ram
320 gig sata HD
Os: Vista 64 ultimate
I have been running an athlon xp 3800+ for quite sometime and recently started looking for new quad cores and mobo's. Well I ran across the 5200+ for 60 bucks and thought that would be a nice cheap compromise until later on and I'll build a whole new machine.
So my AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Brisbane 2.7GHz Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Processor Model ADO5200DOBOX - Retail comes in today and I decide to swap it out.
When booting up into vista, the loading screen with the green small bars that scroll from left to right comes up, it would make 3 or 4 passes and hang. I waited awhile and rebooted. So I look up the tutorial on here about the system startup repair and try it. I insert my cd and boot from it and it does the same thing. Just hangs at the green scrolling dashes. I can go into my bios and change settings around, so I clear my cmos and try it after not coming up with any other ideas to get past it.
Well that does seem to work and I get to where I can try the start up repair, it goes through and detects no errors. So at this point I decide to make the plunge and just format. It starts and completes the formatting process, and as it is installing windows, it decides to reboot instantly. I knew this was a bad sign because it wasnt the normal rebooting countdown like it was completed and needed a reboot.
I allow it to reboot and it now tells me that it will need to start the process from scratch. I restart and allow it to start, as I was choosing my drive to install to it restarted again and thats where I stopped.
So, presently I have a formatted computer with the cpu in, which vista does not seem to want to load onto.
Any suggestions or should I RMA this puppy while I can still get a refund.
Thanks in advance.
Mobo: Biostar TF7050-M2
4 gig of OCZ ram
320 gig sata HD
Os: Vista 64 ultimate
I have been running an athlon xp 3800+ for quite sometime and recently started looking for new quad cores and mobo's. Well I ran across the 5200+ for 60 bucks and thought that would be a nice cheap compromise until later on and I'll build a whole new machine.
So my AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Brisbane 2.7GHz Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Processor Model ADO5200DOBOX - Retail comes in today and I decide to swap it out.
When booting up into vista, the loading screen with the green small bars that scroll from left to right comes up, it would make 3 or 4 passes and hang. I waited awhile and rebooted. So I look up the tutorial on here about the system startup repair and try it. I insert my cd and boot from it and it does the same thing. Just hangs at the green scrolling dashes. I can go into my bios and change settings around, so I clear my cmos and try it after not coming up with any other ideas to get past it.
Well that does seem to work and I get to where I can try the start up repair, it goes through and detects no errors. So at this point I decide to make the plunge and just format. It starts and completes the formatting process, and as it is installing windows, it decides to reboot instantly. I knew this was a bad sign because it wasnt the normal rebooting countdown like it was completed and needed a reboot.
I allow it to reboot and it now tells me that it will need to start the process from scratch. I restart and allow it to start, as I was choosing my drive to install to it restarted again and thats where I stopped.
So, presently I have a formatted computer with the cpu in, which vista does not seem to want to load onto.
Any suggestions or should I RMA this puppy while I can still get a refund.
Thanks in advance.
