ultra ata/133 adapter card

[Rich]

when harddrives are connected to motherboard everything
boots & works normally when I move the hd to adapter
card computer will reconize the card and the hd"s that
are connected but won't boot up screen goes blank and all
iI have is a blinking cursor in the top right did a re-
install of windows xp with card installed still get the
same thing Thanxs

[R. C. White]

Hi, Rich.

When WinXP Setup runs, it detects the hardware configuration and customizes
your copy of WinXP to fit. When that hardware lineup changes in certain
ways - including a change to the controller for the boot device - Setup must
be run again to re-customize WinXP to fit the new configuration. To use a
new controller for a secondary HD, we can install the driver via Device
Manager, but we must rerun Setup before WinXP can BOOT from the new
controller/HD.

You should find (or create) the floppy with the WinXP drivers for that new
controller card. With that floppy at hand, either do a clean install of
WinXP or perform an "in-place upgrade" as described in this KB article:
How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q315341

When invited, early in the Setup process, Press F6 to install drivers for
SCSI or other mass storage controllers. Then wait while a lot of files are
transferred until Setup stops with instructions for how to use that floppy
to install the drivers.

An in-place upgrade will take about as long as a clean install of WinXP, but
it should preserve all of your installed applications and data - and most of
your tweaks. Be sure to re-enable your firewall and virus protection, then
go to Windows Update as soon as you get back online to get SP1 and other
fixes.

And if you find a shortcut to this procedure, please let us all know. ;^}

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP

"Rich" > wrote in message
...
> when harddrives are connected to motherboard everything
> boots & works normally when I move the hd to adapter
> card computer will reconize the card and the hd"s that
> are connected but won't boot up screen goes blank and all
> iI have is a blinking cursor in the top right did a re-
> install of windows xp with card installed still get the
> same thing Thanxs

[bbunny]

The BIOS boot from SCSI must also be set

R. C. White wrote:
| Hi, Rich.
|
| When WinXP Setup runs, it detects the hardware configuration and
| customizes your copy of WinXP to fit. When that hardware lineup
| changes in certain ways - including a change to the controller for
| the boot device - Setup must be run again to re-customize WinXP to
| fit the new configuration. To use a new controller for a secondary
| HD, we can install the driver via Device Manager, but we must rerun
| Setup before WinXP can BOOT from the new controller/HD.
|
| You should find (or create) the floppy with the WinXP drivers for
| that new controller card. With that floppy at hand, either do a
| clean install of WinXP or perform an "in-place upgrade" as described
| in this KB article:
| How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XP
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q315341
|
| When invited, early in the Setup process, Press F6 to install drivers
| for SCSI or other mass storage controllers. Then wait while a lot of
| files are transferred until Setup stops with instructions for how to
| use that floppy to install the drivers.
|
| An in-place upgrade will take about as long as a clean install of
| WinXP, but it should preserve all of your installed applications and
| data - and most of your tweaks. Be sure to re-enable your firewall
| and virus protection, then go to Windows Update as soon as you get
| back online to get SP1 and other fixes.
|
| And if you find a shortcut to this procedure, please let us all know.
| ;^}
|
| RC
|
| "Rich" > wrote in message
| ...
|| when harddrives are connected to motherboard everything
|| boots & works normally when I move the hd to adapter
|| card computer will reconize the card and the hd"s that
|| are connected but won't boot up screen goes blank and all
|| iI have is a blinking cursor in the top right did a re-
|| install of windows xp with card installed still get the
|| same thing Thanxs