Thanks.
Tried that, but then ran into what is probably the real problem.
When I ran through the install procedure, and you get to the point where it
lets you select the drive to install to......it can't see any of the
drives!!
This mobo is the P5LD2 with raid capability.
Three IDE connections:
Pri (red)
Sec (red)
Pri (blue)
I've tried it in both the Pri (red) and Pri (blue) with the same results.
Raid is not enabled (which is for the SATA ports anyway).
It reads the drive in the bios.
If plugged into the Pri (blue) it sees it as the Primary IDE Master and
Slave (I have two drives)
If plugged into the Pri (red) it shows up during the boot during what it
calls the "IDE" scan.
So I put a new blank and formatted drive on the cable. Put a Seagate utility
CD and boot to that. The Seagate utility doesn't see it either under the
motherboards IDE drivers but instead sees it under "Other IDE connections".
So what's going on? Why doesn't it see the drive correctly?
Thanks for the help all.
T.O.
"RonK" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> You have to do a Repair Installation of XP:
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
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> "T Galloway" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:dsCdneKHzvbTn_PeRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I just changed out the mobo to a P5LD2.
>> The old mobo was a P4PE. It died and I was unable to boot to the old one
>> to remove video and old mobo drivers.
>>
>> Now when I boot to the new board, I get the standard Windows screen:
>> "You didn't boot successfully last time. Pick how you want to boot this
>> time."
>> No matter what choice I make, Normally or Safe Mode, it just causes the
>> computer to reboot and here I am again.
>>
>> When I choose Safe Mode, it looks like it's going to boot there OK as it
>> runs through that list of files it loads just before going into Safe
>> Mode, then ---Beep--- and I'm back to re-boot.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks all.
>>
>> T.O.
>>
>> P.S.
>> This board has three IDE plugs Primary (red) and Secondary (red) EIDE
>> which is also used for the raid. And a third that the manual lists as a
>> Primary (blue)IDE--but it is intended for the CD drives as the manual
>> specifically states that the first two will not read optical drives.
>> My drive with XP is set as the master and is connected to the Primary
>> (red) EIDE connection. I tried it in the (blue) but got the same results.
>>
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