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re: Question about 'How do I upgrade my motherboard in Windows 2000/XP?'
Friday, December 10, 2004 at 7:09 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by CdrCargil
(1 messages posted)
I tried to replace my MB because my old one went tits up. I read that I could set
to bios to boot to the cdrom and WINXP would redetect the MB and all that.
I exited the BIOS and rebooted.
It didnt boot to the CDrom WINXP cd. It tried to boot to the OS on the HD. I got
a vague WINXP error. I tried to boot to floppy and when it checks the boot record
and says ok then it just sits there doing nothing.
I cant format, i cant fdisk I cant do anything.
Any advice?
On Saturday, January 10, 2004 at 1:30 pm, Phil wrote:
>Are you getting an INVALID_BOOT_DEVICE message during the boot? If so, put the
old
>motherboard back, boot up into windows and go into Control Panel->System->Device
>Manager and then select the IDE Controller (not primary or secondary but the main
>driver) then change it from whatever it is to the generic IDE controller. This
will
>remove the specific motherboard drivers from the equation and make the drive bootable
>on any motherboard. It will work after this.
>
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