New motherboard won't boot windows

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I am upgrading a AMD 1.4 Aus system to an AMD64 cpu with Gigabyte K8NS
Pro motherboard.

I am reusing the 2 IDE drives(windows XP already installed)NON-raid, 1
DVD RW and CDRom. All plugs and cables are correctly connected.

Boot starts OK. It shows the IDE devices listed correctly, but gets to
a gigraid screen and says "doing IDE scan" and then it finds zero
devices and cant boot Windows XP.

Drives have power and i can see their access lites some on when i do
ceratin thgins in bios settings.

I figure it is configured as a raid system by default? And I need to
reconfigure the board in some way, but I cannot find anything in the
manula or online on how to fix this. Tried various things in bios
configure menus but nothing works.

Any suggestions?

 

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I have the same motherboard, hit ctrl+g and make sure that the raid is
set up for "auto" detection. Also, you wont be able to boot up into
Windows regardless if you fix the raid hang-up without doing a repair
install. So go into the bios and set boot up from cd-rom. Have the XP
cd in of course...and act like a normal clean install until it detects
your prior version of Windows and then choose repair. You won't lose
anything...ie. programs, XP will only update the hardware settings
(which are substantial in your case.).
Good luck and welcome to the psuedo 64-bit age....
StevieRay


maxmar91@yahoo.com (Tex Tech) wrote in message news:<7285225.0408101316.2c367cb3@posting.google.com>...
> I am upgrading a AMD 1.4 Aus system to an AMD64 cpu with Gigabyte K8NS
> Pro motherboard.
>
> I am reusing the 2 IDE drives(windows XP already installed)NON-raid, 1
> DVD RW and CDRom. All plugs and cables are correctly connected.
>
> Boot starts OK. It shows the IDE devices listed correctly, but gets to
> a gigraid screen and says "doing IDE scan" and then it finds zero
> devices and cant boot Windows XP.
>
> Drives have power and i can see their access lites some on when i do
> ceratin thgins in bios settings.
>
> I figure it is configured as a raid system by default? And I need to
> reconfigure the board in some way, but I cannot find anything in the
> manula or online on how to fix this. Tried various things in bios
> configure menus but nothing works.
>
> Any suggestions?