PC boot problem

[Northy]

Hi guys,

I've just moved my desktop to a new case and now it won't boot properly.

It gets to the black xp screen, with blue bar along bottom, then just as it should boot to windows it craps out and restarts

Any ideas? This should have been a quick easy job

Cheers,

G

[Southwell]

Did you change the power supply with the case? If so chances are it doesn't have the power of your old one and therefore power cycles.

[Northy]

I didn't at first, but have changed it now and it still does it

G

[Southwell]

You grounded the motherboard properly? Not just mounted it to the chassis? You normally get little bronze nipples with them, or 'stand up's' from the case, im sure you have otherwise it wouldnt fit properly.

You changed anything else at all?

[jimmy]

Try taking (CAREFULLY) some of your memory out maybe - that can cause the system to hang on boot, at least in my experience, if it's dodgy. I managed to trace mine to one bad dimm, which I got exchanged and it was fine.
Could have got damaged during the move is all.

[DCM]

It is going past the boot screen and POST, so, he has tried taking out the wifi card and still did it, I would think it is either that the windows XP install is now confused and needs a repair doing to it, or the disk has had a corruption so needs scan disk doing