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Help Please - problem with new mobo.

  • 02-07-2004 7:20am
    #1
    statto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭


    Hi.

    I am in the process of upgrading my dell 8300. I got the following kit
    Sonnata case
    Abit ic7- max 3 board
    P4 3.0GHZ prescott
    Zalman CNPS700A-ALCU cololer
    A-data PC4000 512mb memory
    From my dell I am reusing
    LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163 [CD-ROM drive]
    SONY DVD RW DRU-530A [CD-ROM drive]
    64MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX with TV Out
    MAXTOR 6L080J4 [Hard drive] (80.05 GB) IDE

    The kit arrived yesterday morning to work. At lunchtime I put it all together. To test it I borrowed a small hard disk with Windows NT4 on it, a cd-rom and a PCI g/f card. It booted fine first time. I was well happy. I removed the borrowed gear and packed it up. When I got home I installed the above kit form the dell. That’s when the problem started. The hard disk has a copy of XP home on it. However it won’t boot up into windows. It gets past the post screen and I get a very brief glimpse of the windows screen and then a blue screen. This screen informs that a problem has occurred and windows can’t load. It tells me to remove any recently installed hard drives or hard drive controllers and restart. I tried switching the IDE cables and the IDE ports with no luck. I went into the BIOS and disabled everything I could including the SATA raid controllers – no joy. I reinstalled the factory settings on the Bois – no joy. When I put the Hard disk back into my Dell it works fine and XP loads with no problems. I tied to load a fresh copy of XP onto a spare 10Gig Drive I have but that didn’t work – not sure if there is a problem with that drive.

    Any help gratefully received

    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    jesus_thats_gre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,441 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    Did you do a clean install on the drive you took out of the Dell?


  • #3
    Fionn101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 719 ✭✭✭Fionn101


    Statto ,

    The drive is probably trying to boot windows using the drivers for hardware it thinks is still there ,

    If you built a new puter , then reinstall windows

    If your upgrading as you say then go back to the working config and upgrade each component individually , allowing windows to reboot in between hardware changes.

    Is this enough info for you to continue ??? if not post back etc


    Fionn


  • #4
    statto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭statto


    Thanks chaps.

    Was hoping to avoid a full reinstall of windows. The 80gig hard drive is nearly full of stuff with nowhere to save it to while I reinstall. Also lots of apps so reinstall will be a pain. I connected a hard disk with NT4 to the new mobo and it booted up fine!


  • #5
    Fionn101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 719 ✭✭✭Fionn101


    then do avoid a complete reinstall of windows ,

    you have two options,

    1) put the 80gb hard disk as the slace drive and copy all your content across that you want to keep (this won't work for programs)

    2) get the machine working in its original configuration with the 80gb disk, then upgrade each component seperatley

    Fionn


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