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

["Steve Morgan" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The boot failure from DVD is very suspicious, as it suggests that
either
it's not actually attempting to boot from the DVD or that the DVD isn't
actually a bootable disc (which as Vista install disc certainly should be).

Did you get the message "Press any key to boot from the CD"? (And
if you
did, did you press a key before the timeout period?)

Are you sure that the DVD drive is included in the boot sequence list in
the
BIOS?

I'd leave the HDD disconnected until you manage to get a successful DVD
boot. There could be all sorts of driver issues booting from the HDD until
you've managed to either repair or re-install the OS over the top.


Steve Morgan


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Nigel Giddings
Sent: 09 February 2009 18:59
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Change of Mother board now PC won't boot into XP

Hi Thanks for the additional ideas.



I have reset the BIOS and then reconfigured in the setup and this
appears to be taken OK, show success during next boot cycle but still
won't go beyond black screen immediately after DMI Pool Data message.



I have also tried disconnecting SATA HD, disabling SATA in BIOS and
booting from DVD using a good VISTA install DVD but I get the message
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK etc.



FYI there are no PCI cards installed either, just the MoBo, FDD
(currently disconnected), DVD/CD (Connected), and SATA HD (Currently
disconnected), and 1 stick of RAM (1GB DDR2) which shows up OK during
initial booting...



Nigel






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