re build pent 2, windows problem

[sheeba]

Hi, i am having a little problem with this rebuild, i have done all i understand what to do, when i start up the computer it boots to the monitor and goes through the normal starting procedures, it does its system checks and then goes to start windows but instead of it finding it , it keeps rebooting itself to do all the checks again, when the next page on the monitor shows up it says to choose an option, START WINDOWS NORMALLY or TRY TO USE THE LAST CONFIGURED SETUP, i think you understand what i mean, but when i try any of these, guess what it reboots itself to the start again, and goes through that same process again, i am stumped at what is causing this, could it be a bios setup issue or something of that kind... anyone's help would be gratefully appreciated. thanks..

Mark..

[FLG]

Can you explain what you did to the sytem, and give the full specs please.

[sheeba]

Hi FLG,
well i basically took eveything out of an old IBM computer, which had win98 on it, but i loaded it up with winxp and it couldnt handle it, it kept going to a black screen after it sat for about a minute, when you did restart it again it went to the IBM screen and then did a system check and then kept telling me to hit the TAB button and then it would re check the system and then ask me to hit the DEL button and then it would boot to the windows xp program i allready put on it, but cause it was an old system and it has a dvd burner/player in it , it ran in slow motion, not enough ram i guess, so what i did i took out the guts of the IBM computer and transferred it to the other system with more ram and better motherboard. Keep in mind here that this is for an elderly woman thats why i couldnt keep it like it was, she wouldnt know what to press if it said hit tab and then hit del, thats why i changed systems. Hope you understand what i did or doing...

Intel Pentium II Processor 350 MHZ with MMX Tech.
Phoenix Bios 4.0 Release 6.0
Motherboard SE440BX
256MB Ram
80 GB Hard drive
Monitor 14" Screen
Lite-On DVD-R/RW
FDD
56K Internal Modem
Cirrus Video Card 54x6/3x
Windows xp home edition.

Vertually the basics.

[FLG]

Ok do a repair install of windows XP, though i seriously would consider go back to using windows 98, the speed of the processor and only having 256 MB of RAM will greatly impact system preformance.