gfrances Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 I had to replace a faulty P III CPU. It's an older machine running home automation and weather services. It's an Intel MB and I replaced it with the same speed and type CPU.Windows XP Pro SP2 now hangs when the machine boots up. I tried repairing the Windows installation, but it hangs after the restart to continue the installation. I would rather not have to do a fresh install, unless absolutely necessary.Any help would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 Is it a Slot 1 cpu or the later Socket 370 version ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfrances Posted April 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Is it a Slot 1 cpu or the later Socket 370 version ?It is a Socket 370. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Probably a pointless question - but you have used fresh thermal paste between the heatsink and new cpu ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfrances Posted April 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Probably a pointless question - but you have used fresh thermal paste between the heatsink and new cpu ?Yes, I did. The CPU is not heating up because I can do a CNTRL-ALT-DEL and it reboots just fine. If I try to reboot Windows in the safe mode, it hangs up in the same place each time. So, I renamed the driver it was trying to load (BTH something.sys) and it just hung up on the next one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Did you do your repair using the Recovery Console ?If so, try a Repair Installation ? (Excellent guide below) http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/repair_...lation_xp.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 That bth file is probably the bluetooth driver ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfrances Posted April 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Did you do your repair using the Recovery Console ?If so, try a Repair Installation ? (Excellent guide below) http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/repair_...lation_xp.shtmlI have tried a Repair Installation. It hangs after copying files and rebooting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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