assistance needed please !

[wolverinex]

Hi

Got a newish pc last night core i5 2400 with 4gb of ram and 400w psu
i connected everything (first time yay ! ) and all seems to be working fine.

The problem now is that i'm using my old hdd from my previous pc which has xp installed (sp3 me thinks)
When i enter the boot set up my mouse and keyboard works perfectly but when it boots into xp
the mouse and keyboard are non responsive... why ?

i havent installed any drivers yet (still have to download them) but i dont understand why the mouse works in boot but not in xp.

the mouse and keyboard are logitek wireless, and i have tried another usb (corded) mouse but it still doesnt work.

your thoughts ? what have i missed ?

EDIT: also tried another hdd with win7 installed but that gives me the bluescreen error and refuses to load win7 ... not sure why this is because it worked perfectly on my old rig

 

[The_Ogre]

You're goign to have endless hassles with that setup. Transplanting a hard drive which already has an OS on it to a new machine will cause driver conflicts and might even damage your hardware (lots of drivers control voltages to the components). You can only do this if you're putting the drive in a machine with exactly the same configuration.

Get a spare drive, install Xp/7 on it. Plug in the old drive and copy everything to the fresh Xp/7.

Best advice I can give you. Good luck

 

[P924]

You should really reinstall your os after an upgrade like that...

 

[Arthur]

... or restore with Acronis True Image using the Universal Restore add-in (both paid commercial programs). This will slipstream in the HAL-level drivers you need for the OS to boot and operate properly. It is widely used in the corporate environment to migrate servers and workstations to new hardware or to virtual machines, or from virtual back to physical.

 

[killadoob]

Windows 7 handles it but xp won't, odd that windows 7 is blue screening besides you really should get rid of that rubbish OS.

Reload windows 7 onto the fresh hardware and forget about xp unless you need it for some reason.

 

[Pada]

Do a fresh installation of Windows 7 and then all your problems will be sorted out.

 

[wolverinex]

eish i was afraid of that !

hate doing a fresh install, oh well guess i have no choice but to reinstall

 

[bekdik]

Run XP install, on the second offering to repair, choose repair.