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Thanks. I was just going to send a message to let forum know that I finally found where to make the change as you described above. Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. This is the best forum.

Thank you all so much for your help. I was able to solve my problem by assigning Google DNS servers to my Ethernet connection. Never can stop learning more about Windows. This site is awesome.:)

Hi guys, I’m still cruising along OK. I was able to activate Windows 7 when asked without any problems. Even my desktop icons are working OK and Acronis True Image which can be finicky ran without any issues. Right now I’m just cruising along and am amazed. BTY it cost me around $300 for a bundled I5-4690K CPU and Gaming 7 Gigabyte motherboard. Again, thank you all for your comments and help. This is a great forum.
Ralph

He didn’t say exactly why but did mention something about having problems later with devices. I just checked device manager settings and it looks to me like all the devices have updated drivers including the Intel “9” chipset for storage devices and the CPU as an Intel core I5-4690K CPU with LGA 1150 socket. It’s looking good so far. I loaded the drivers from the provided Gigabyte CD because I just wanted to get them all loaded ASAP, and now I will go to website to get the latest updates. Outlooks seems to running OK too so I’m going to stay the course as long as I can. BTW I was able to active Office 2010 when asked as I believe it recognized the new MB as a different computer. Haven’t heard anything from Windows 7 yet. I’ll keep you informed as I continue my journey. :o:

I’m back. After thinking about it for a while I decided to go ahead and buy a new motherboard (Gigabyte) and new CPU (Intel I5) and do some open heart surgery and replace the kaput motherboard and CPU. I disconnected all my devices, pulled out the old MB with CPU, reinstalled the new MP and CPU and finally reconnected all my devices. I said a prayer, pushed the power button and lo and behold the machine booted up fine. It even recognized my SSD and brought up windows 7. I said wow that was easy. Everything seems to be working the same as it did on my old motherboard. I said can I really get away with this. I had only one problem with not being able to load the audio driver for Realtech and sound blaster but while loading the nvidea driver for my video card nvidea also loaded audio drivers that I’m able to use so it looked like my audio issue was resolved. Then I called Gigabyte tech support to ask best way to connect my ssd and other 2 hd’s and dvd and blue ray drives. During this discussion I mentioned what I had accomplished and he told me because I installed a new MB I would need to reinstall Windows 7. I thought by loading all the Gigabyte drivers that I could circumvent this problem What he said made sense but do I really need to reinstall windows 7. Could I get your opinions. I don’t want to do the dreaded reinstall. Since it’s been so long since I’ve done a windows install can someone point me in the right direction as to how best I can do this? Do I just install windows 7 over the existing version and go from there. I’ve got all my data stored in my laptop. Begging for help.
Thanks, Ralph

I can’t boot bios. After first beep it goes into auto reboot. The bios screen flashes for less than a second and it goes into reboot until I do forced shutdown. Local PC tried different power supply to no avail. Now suggesting a new MB and CPU to tune of $600. Currently have Asus P7P55D – E LX MB with Intel Core I5 650 CPU. He says new install will cost around $600. Seems a little high to me. My original cost for both 4 years ago was $314. Does this sound reasonable to you? I may give Asus a call but am getting a little old for this stuff so may bite the bullet. Again thank you all for your help.

Ralph

Thanks for all the help guys. continues in same sequence until I hold down the start button to do a hard shutdown. My local repair tried a different power supply but it still had same issue. Now he says it’s probably a MB or CPU issue and I need to replace both to tune of around $600. It currently has an ASUS P7P55D-ELX MB with an Intel Core I5 650 processor. Both cost me around $ 314 4 years ago. Does this sound reasonable?

Can’t get beyond single beep from bios and then it starts the restart loop. I tried starting with windows 7 disk but my disk was not detected. I thought I had bios setup to read from dvd drive if system disk was detected but doesn’t seem to be working. I thought single beep from bios was a no problem beep. Thanks for your help.

Thanks for all the quick replies. I am running win 7 64 bit having done a clean install. But I need to let you know that this upgrade is not supported by HP since it’s an older machine(2008). I upgraded to the latest bios before I upgraded to windows 7 and was told that this bios will support 4gb. I just can’t understand why the bios recognizes 4gb of ram and windows doesn’t. My internal intel video processor is using 128mb of ram but I did change this to 64mb but that didn’t change a thing. Do you think if I went back and installed Vista 64 bit I’d have 4gb of ram available?

Fred, what I meant to say was that I did some further testing and disovered the machine went to sleep OK after changing my bios setting back to auto and applying your change. So, it seems either charge will fix the problem.

Thanks Fred.

That took care of it.

Thanks Fred.

I hate when this happens. I should have tried this setting before I asked for help. I changed my power setting in the bios from auto to s3 and for now my machine is able to enter sleep mode OK.

Thanks for all the help. I used Team Viewer and it was a breeze. Not only is it easy to use but it works, not like Windows 7 RA.:)

I guess I can do that but just don’t like the thoughts of Microsoft controlling XP without supporting it. I was hoping there’s another way.

I know I’m a little late on this but I just solved some long boot problems with XP which I am running dual boot with Windows 7. I used MSCONFIG to disable all my startup programs. Since I did this only Google toolbar is starting at startup. I also went to system performance settings and activated the button to adjust for best performance. If you’re not fussy about the way windows are presented this is a one click way to speed up your machine. I also did same in Windows 7 and it made a significant difference.