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

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you checked that the SATA port is set to the right mode in the
BIOS... - IIRC most BIOS's will allow you to configure SATA ports in
legacy IDE emulation mode, or in native AHCI mode...

How do you know the mobo driver CD is visible during boot up? - is it
bootable? (some are) - does it offer to let you boot from it? - when you
saw this, was the SATA HDD connected at the same time? - if not, if you
connect the SATA Disk, is the CD still "visible"?

Paul G.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Nigel Giddings
> Sent: 08 February 2009 12:33
> To: UKHA Group
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Change of Mother board now PC won't boot into
XP
>
> 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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