Windows won't start after mother board change

[Mike Tokai]

Because of MULTIPLE problems with my HP computer (Pavilion
7935) I bought a new chassis and mother board. I moved
everything (hard drive, floppy, CD, mempry and processor)
over to the new chassis. Now the machine is hung up with
the last message being "Searching for boot record from IDE-
0.OK". Since XP is on the hard drive I have noe way to
reload it. How can I get the machine to recognize that
there is a new mother board? If I had a starter disk for
XP I could maybe get going. HELP!!!!!!

[Nicholas]

Is your new motherboard identical to the original one? If it is
not, then you will need to purchase a conventional retail version
of Windows XP and perform a "repair install". The recovery
partition on your hard drive is useless if you changed to a different
motherboard.

Visit http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm and click
on "How to Run a Repair Install".


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Nicholas

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"Mike Tokai" > wrote in message: =20
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| Because of MULTIPLE problems with my HP computer (Pavilion=20
| 7935) I bought a new chassis and mother board. I moved=20
| everything (hard drive, floppy, CD, mempry and processor)=20
| over to the new chassis. Now the machine is hung up with=20
| the last message being "Searching for boot record from IDE-
| 0.OK". Since XP is on the hard drive I have noe way to=20
| reload it. How can I get the machine to recognize that=20
| there is a new mother board? If I had a starter disk for=20
| XP I could maybe get going. HELP!!!!!!

[Earl F. Parrish]

"Mike Tokai" > wrote in message
...
> Because of MULTIPLE problems with my HP computer (Pavilion
> 7935) I bought a new chassis and mother board. I moved
> everything (hard drive, floppy, CD, mempry and processor)
> over to the new chassis. Now the machine is hung up with
> the last message being "Searching for boot record from IDE-
> 0.OK". Since XP is on the hard drive I have noe way to
> reload it. How can I get the machine to recognize that
> there is a new mother board? If I had a starter disk for
> XP I could maybe get going. HELP!!!!!!

A bootable hard drive should boot no matter what brand of
motherboard you have. Windows XP might not run because of driver
conflicts. Check to make sure that you have your hard drive
connected in the right order if you are using Cable Select. Go into
BIOS setup and make sure that the correct hard drive is detected.
Auto-detection should be used. Look at the Boot screen and see
whether your hard drive and CD-ROM drives are listed on the correct
channel. You should have your hard drive on the first channel and
your CD-ROM drive on the second channel. Look in your motherboard
manual to see which connector is which.

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Earl F. Parrish

[Earl F. Parrish]

"Earl F. Parrish" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Mike Tokai" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Because of MULTIPLE problems with my HP computer (Pavilion
> > 7935) I bought a new chassis and mother board. I moved
> > everything (hard drive, floppy, CD, mempry and processor)
> > over to the new chassis. Now the machine is hung up with
> > the last message being "Searching for boot record from IDE-
> > 0.OK". Since XP is on the hard drive I have noe way to
> > reload it. How can I get the machine to recognize that
> > there is a new mother board? If I had a starter disk for
> > XP I could maybe get going. HELP!!!!!!
>
> A bootable hard drive should boot no matter what brand of
> motherboard you have. Windows XP might not run because of driver
> conflicts. Check to make sure that you have your hard drive
> connected in the right order if you are using Cable Select. Go
into
> BIOS setup and make sure that the correct hard drive is detected.
> Auto-detection should be used. Look at the Boot screen and see
> whether your hard drive and CD-ROM drives are listed on the
correct
> channel. You should have your hard drive on the first channel and
> your CD-ROM drive on the second channel. Look in your motherboard
> manual to see which connector is which.
>
> --
> Earl F. Parrish
>

One additional thing I forgot, make sure that LBA is enabled for the
hard drive or choose Auto.

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Earl F. Parrish