[OT] Change of Mother board now PC won't boot into XP

["Nigel Giddings" <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hope this is not seen as too far off topic.



My Study PC, ACER with HT2000 motherboard gave up the ghost earlier this
week. Suspect an issue with onboard graphics as on thing I could get out
of it was pretty vertical lines on the monitor.



Bought a Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2 from PCWorld as I had a voucher to use...



Installed the board, a couple of small issues, the FDD connector had no
surround so managed to offset plug by one pin, now sorted. The card does
not have an on board speaker and the Front Panel plug / socket was not
as per the original MoBo. Have butchered plug and salvaged a speaker
from a very old PC...



The MoBo goes through POST giving one beep on my very old speaker... I
can also access the BIOS and effect changes OK. I know the DVD/CD is
working because the MoBo comes with a CD with drivers and this can be
seen if I insert it during boot up. However, the machine will not boot
from the original SATA HD (with WinXPpro installed) nor can I boot from
an installation disk for either XP or Vista.



Is there something obvious I need to do? I have RTFM...



Nigel (Puzzled)



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