All sorts of problems :(

[Tophu]

Hey everyone,
Recently, my dell 5100 crapped out on me after a good 4 year run. I think it was the motherboard that blew out as it wouldnt turn on anymore. Anyway, I picked up a shuttle XPC barebone, and just salvaged parts from the dell. To my dismay, when I boot up the computer, it will automatically restart its self after the windows xp loading screen and before the windows log in screen. I thought it could be some corrupt files so I was going to try and reformat the harddrive, however now when I try to boot from cd, it says Verifying Pool Data - skips a line - Boot from CD: - but when i try to press anything on the keyboard to execute the command, nothing happens. Any idea whats wrong??

Any help is appreciated

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[joefido]

Give this a try..
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/russel_02may13.mspx

[Kurtiskain]

i take it that you just pulled the Hard Drive out and put it into the new shuttle? if its a different motherboard it wont boot because it will still be trying to load the drivers for that specific board so yes...your only real option is to do a repair install of windows this is done by booting from the disk...which you cant do so...did u change any jumpers? because I know on some motherboards there are jumpers u can change to disable the PS/2 ports and stuff...can you access the BIOS and move around?

If you do, by some miracle (perhaps try another keyboard?) get into XP setup, you want to skip the first screen untill it says scanning for previous versions of microsoft windows, and it should detect ur XP setup, and then just click r on the keyboard to start a repair install which will keep all your desktop setting and the like but set it up for the new motherboard


Goodluck!
Kurtis