Hope it works! Hate to see you stop with mudmoving!
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A possible end to FS for me
- Thread starter falcon409
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Actually, the $200 or so I just spent is all I have. Had everything up and running. . .faster than the previous board and processor, was having some audio problems so I rebooted. During the reboot, I saw a message that said the HDD were operating in IDE mode rather than SATA (wow, that must be wrong I thought. . .better fix that right now), selected "Y" to make the change. . .well, well, whatya know, now it doesn't recognize either drive and since it tried to load windows and failed I now get a message that wants me to choose between running "startup repair" or "start windows normally". At this point however, the keyboard has not quite made it to where it becomes active, so selecting anything is pretty much impossible, so it just sits there counting down from 25secs, then back to 25sec and so on.
I've gone into the BIOS setup and CMOS tables and the drives are not recognized. Even when I do an autodetect it finds nothing.
Anyone have any ideas?
I've gone into the BIOS setup and CMOS tables and the drives are not recognized. Even when I do an autodetect it finds nothing.
Anyone have any ideas?
Did you change MB + CPU and not do a reinstall of XP or is it Vista? Did your HD's have the wide(1 1/2") ribbon or the sata (3/8") ribbon? If your new MB has different chipset you'll need to do a reinstall of OS. In BIOS it should give you choice of IDE or Sata. Oh, by the way, in BIOS did you select drive to boot from?
Changed both the MB & CPU (I had already succeeded in returning to windows after the new installs).
Both drives use the narrow SATA jumpers
I assume it does have a different chipset
No such options in BIOS, right now, using auto-detect it doesn't find either HDD and so while I did select to boot from the HDD, since it doesn't recognize either one, it simply doesn't boot now.
It's now giving me a different message that the reason windows was unable to start was because the file "hal.dll" is either missing or corrupt.
"hal.dll" is part of XP startup and I think from memory it has something to do with hardware, if you are on XP you could try a repair using your XP install CD but you will need to sellect boot from CD in bios hopefully on boot your mouse and keyboard should work to allow you to repair.
Except that I was running Vista. I have a restore disk from the original system, but since changing MB and CPU it no longer wants to work. If I could find my XP disk I would just do a clean install of XP and be done with it. . .never mind the fact, that all of my FS purchases over the last 6 years are housed on the C drive with no back up.
I'll never learn, lol.
Exactly..you changed hardware and Windows don't recognize it. You may if your EXTREMELY lucky get by with a repair but it most likely will run like crap. You using just one drive or RAID? Disconnect extra till this gets squared away if just 1 drive. Without knowing what MB your playin with are you sure your using the correct sata (1 +2) ports on MB? Check MB handbook. Did you get CD with MB? It should have the XP drivers for sata on it, you will need to look on it and use the install to create a floppy disk with drivers on it for fresh Windows install. Once you do this your ready to start XP install...Need to set CD as boot 1st.. At begiining of Windows load it will say at bottom Press F6 to install other drvs, so press it sev times right away and it in bit it will ask for the floppy so push it in and do that and then hit next after it loads and returns to next screen & continue.
Argh, I see you have Vista, well at least that will let you skip the floppy BS, but I assume its on the restore cd, correct?
Well, still the first thing you need to fix is get the hd's to show in BIOS. You need to look thru chipset tab and see if you have IDE enabled, if so try disable so sata is recog as some MB's default to IDE. Hit F10 and reboot and go back in Bios and see if it shows. Do you see the drives on post boot screen?