PC won't boot after new motherboard fitted

My Medion 8383 wouldn't power up and the local computer shop diagnosed a
duff motherboard.

I took out my HD and put a blank brand new one in before I took it to the
shop.

They fitted the new MB and said it was booting fine.

I have now connected up the original HD, so just moved the power and data
cables over from the new HD to my original.

It won't boot up. I get a black screen offering to boot nortmally, safe
mode, last good configuration, all options return to this screen. I get the
black Wiundows screen with the couloured window as it boots up.

Apart from take it back to the shop, is there anything I could try?

Trevor wrote:
> My Medion 8383 wouldn't power up and the local computer shop diagnosed a
> duff motherboard.
>
> I took out my HD and put a blank brand new one in before I took it to the
> shop.
>
> They fitted the new MB and said it was booting fine.
>
> I have now connected up the original HD, so just moved the power and data
> cables over from the new HD to my original.
>
> It won't boot up. I get a black screen offering to boot nortmally, safe
> mode, last good configuration, all options return to this screen. I get the
> black Wiundows screen with the couloured window as it boots up.
>
> Apart from take it back to the shop, is there anything I could try?
>
>

A new motherboard generally requires a repair install of XP....

"Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> Trevor wrote:
>> My Medion 8383 wouldn't power up and the local computer shop diagnosed a
>> duff motherboard.
>>
>> I took out my HD and put a blank brand new one in before I took it to the
>> shop.
>>
>> They fitted the new MB and said it was booting fine.
>>
>> I have now connected up the original HD, so just moved the power and data
>> cables over from the new HD to my original.
>>
>> It won't boot up. I get a black screen offering to boot nortmally, safe
>> mode, last good configuration, all options return to this screen. I get
>> the black Wiundows screen with the couloured window as it boots up.
>>
>> Apart from take it back to the shop, is there anything I could try?
>
> A new motherboard generally requires a repair install of XP....

If you get someone to do it who doesn't know how to change a few drivers in
safe mode!

"GT" <ContactGT_remove_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
> news:63crseF25ektbU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Trevor wrote:
>>> My Medion 8383 wouldn't power up and the local computer shop diagnosed a
>>> duff motherboard.
>>>
>>> I took out my HD and put a blank brand new one in before I took it to
>>> the shop.
>>>
>>> They fitted the new MB and said it was booting fine.
>>>
>>> I have now connected up the original HD, so just moved the power and
>>> data cables over from the new HD to my original.
>>>
>>> It won't boot up. I get a black screen offering to boot nortmally, safe
>>> mode, last good configuration, all options return to this screen. I get
>>> the black Wiundows screen with the couloured window as it boots up.
>>>
>>> Apart from take it back to the shop, is there anything I could try?
>>
>> A new motherboard generally requires a repair install of XP....
>
> If you get someone to do it who doesn't know how to change a few drivers
> in safe mode!


I don't follow?

GT wrote:

>
> If you get someone to do it who doesn't know how to change a few drivers in
> safe mode!
>
>

The OP says it won't boot AT ALL......not even in safe mode.

"Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> GT wrote:
>
>>
>> If you get someone to do it who doesn't know how to change a few drivers
>> in safe mode!
>
> The OP says it won't boot AT ALL......not even in safe mode.

I misread your reply - I read re-install, but you actually said repair
install. That will teach me to speed read!

"Trevor" <trevor@nospam.woldsweather.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "GT" <ContactGT_remove_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:47d13b25$0$6705$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
>> "Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:63crseF25ektbU1@mid.individual.net...
>>> Trevor wrote:
>>>> My Medion 8383 wouldn't power up and the local computer shop diagnosed
>>>> a duff motherboard.
>>>>
>>>> I took out my HD and put a blank brand new one in before I took it to
>>>> the shop.
>>>>
>>>> They fitted the new MB and said it was booting fine.
>>>>
>>>> I have now connected up the original HD, so just moved the power and
>>>> data cables over from the new HD to my original.
>>>>
>>>> It won't boot up. I get a black screen offering to boot nortmally, safe
>>>> mode, last good configuration, all options return to this screen. I get
>>>> the black Wiundows screen with the couloured window as it boots up.
>>>>
>>>> Apart from take it back to the shop, is there anything I could try?
>>>
>>> A new motherboard generally requires a repair install of XP....
>>
>> If you get someone to do it who doesn't know how to change a few drivers
>> in safe mode!
>
> I don't follow?

A new motherboard doesn't necessarily require a new install of Windows,
which is what I thought Gordon meant. However I misread Gordon's reply, so
please ignore my last statement.

"GT" <ContactGT_remove_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
> news:63cul5F2782i8U1@mid.individual.net...
>> GT wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> If you get someone to do it who doesn't know how to change a few drivers
>>> in safe mode!
>>
>> The OP says it won't boot AT ALL......not even in safe mode.
>
> I misread your reply - I read re-install, but you actually said repair
> install. That will teach me to speed read!


Have tried booting from recovery CD but its not recognising either CD drive
and won't go into the bios.

"Trevor" <trevor@nospam.woldsweather.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "GT" <ContactGT_remove_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:47d1470f$0$6658$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
>> "Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:63cul5F2782i8U1@mid.individual.net...
>>> GT wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you get someone to do it who doesn't know how to change a few
>>>> drivers in safe mode!
>>>
>>> The OP says it won't boot AT ALL......not even in safe mode.
>>
>> I misread your reply - I read re-install, but you actually said repair
>> install. That will teach me to speed read!
>
> Have tried booting from recovery CD but its not recognising either CD
> drive and won't go into the bios.

This last tiny bit of information suggests something immediately to me:
Perhaps the jumpers on your drives are wrong. Do you have the boot drive and
your CD drive on the same IDE cable (master and slave). Check the hard drive
is set to master and check the CD Rom is set to slave.

Not going into the bios could be because you have a USB keyboard? You need
to wait until the POST screen is nearly finished before you press del (or
f1). Or just plug in a PS/2 keyboard.

"GT" <ContactGT_remove_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Trevor" <trevor@nospam.woldsweather.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:13t2n82kprii285@corp.supernews.com...
>>
>> "GT" <ContactGT_remove_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:47d1470f$0$6658$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
>>> "Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
>>> news:63cul5F2782i8U1@mid.individual.net...
>>>> GT wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If you get someone to do it who doesn't know how to change a few
>>>>> drivers in safe mode!
>>>>
>>>> The OP says it won't boot AT ALL......not even in safe mode.
>>>
>>> I misread your reply - I read re-install, but you actually said repair
>>> install. That will teach me to speed read!
>>
>> Have tried booting from recovery CD but its not recognising either CD
>> drive and won't go into the bios.
>
> This last tiny bit of information suggests something immediately to me:
> Perhaps the jumpers on your drives are wrong. Do you have the boot drive
> and your CD drive on the same IDE cable (master and slave). Check the hard
> drive is set to master and check the CD Rom is set to slave.
>
> Not going into the bios could be because you have a USB keyboard? You need
> to wait until the POST screen is nearly finished before you press del (or
> f1). Or just plug in a PS/2 keyboard.
>

Can now get into BIOS. CD is set as first boot device (but it doesn't
recognise it).

The 2 CD drives are on a wide ribbon cable going into the MB. The HD is a
thin red SATA cable connecting to the MB.

I thought you didn't have to worry about master and slave with XP?

How do I set them?

The original HD certainly hasn't been changed since the MB packed in and had
been that way for 3 years. With the original HD in I can get to the screen
that gives you boot options but it only shows HD and card reader.

At the moment I have a brand new HD in with no operating system on as I
gave it to the shop - they said it was booting and seeing this drive, but I
just get a message boot drive failure