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

[Vargster <vargster@xxxxxxxxx>]

When you say it won't boot, what happens?
When you say it sees the driver CD, what happens?

Lee


On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Nigel Giddings <nigel@xxxxxxx>wrote:

>   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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