Built new pc; will not boot to Windows Friday, April 10, 2009 at 6:19 pm Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Barry (4 messages posted) I just finished building a new PC (specs are below). First tried booting it to a hard-drive that came with an eMachines T2642. It would not boot to Windows, so I figured it had something to do with eMachines only Windows version incapable of running when hardware is replaced. So I bought a new hard-drive (Western Digital Caviar WD2500BB), ran fdisk and formatted it to FAT32. Installed Windows ME (the latest version of Windows that I have a full version disk). It appeared to install correctly, but having the same problem...keeps re-booting, will not boot to Windows. It first displays "No signal input", but the monitor is working (displaying everything after that message), the post data all appears to be ok, the Windows splash screen appears, but then it states that "Windows did not fully load on last attempt" and prompts me how to load. I tried loading in 'Safe Mode', still with the same result. Two things that I wonder about is either the monitor is not fully communicating with the PC (it is a refurbished I bought), even though it is displaying, or the graphics card is incompatible (though the motherboard manual did not give much information regarding the PCI-express compatibility). I tried booting with the onboard VGA, but nothing displayed on the monitor. I could find nothing in the BIOS to change to VGA display though. Specs: Biostar P4M900-M4 Motherboard Intel Celeron, Socket 478 Pentium 4 - 2.6GHz (original from eMachines T2642) XFX GeForce 8600 GT XXX Video Card Western Digital WD2500BB IDE HDD - setup as Master IDE0 Western Digital WD400EB 40 GB IDE HDD - (original from eMachine) setup as slave IDE0 Sony CD-ROM/DVD-ROM CRX330E - setup as Master IDE1 NEC DVD+/-RW ND3530A - setup as Slave IDE1 19" Westinghouse L1916HW DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor 2 - Kingston KVR667D2N5/2G 2GB DDR2 RAM PC2-5300 240-Pin DIMM memory modules (667 MHz) Windows ME Responses to this message: re: Built new pc; will not boot to Windows (Steve: Friday, April 10, 2009 at 8:13 pm) re: Built new pc; will not boot to Windows (Barry: Friday, April 10, 2009 at 8:15 pm) Hardware compatible with Windows 9x (Ed: Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 10:25 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Built new pc; will not boot to Windows (Barry: Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 6:19 pm) re: Built new pc; will not boot to Windows (Steve: Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 8:13 pm) re: Built new pc; will not boot to Windows (Barry: Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 8:15 pm) re: Built new pc; will not boot to Windows (Steve: Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 8:37 pm) re: Built new pc; will not boot to Windows (Barry: Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 8:50 pm) re: Built new pc; will not boot to Windows (Steve: Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 8:55 pm) re: Built new pc; will not boot to Windows (Barry: Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 9:10 pm) Hardware compatible with Windows 9x (Ed: Sun, Apr 12, 2009, 10:25 am) re: Hardware compatible with Windows 9x (DanTheMan: Tue, Apr 14, 2009, 2:37 am) re: Another Forum for older Windows OSes (Kiwi: Mon, May 25, 2009, 2:25 am) re: Another Forum for older Windows OSes (Kiwi: Wed, May 27, 2009, 10:55 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum