Changed motherboards - no boot

I have been using Win XP Pro on a MSI (K7t266 Pro2)
motherboard for some time without any problems. My hard
drive is an 80 GB WD.
I recently boaught a new motherboard (ASUS A7N8X). When I
connected the hard drive and tried to boot up I received
an error message and the system stopped. The drive still
works perfectly on my old system but I cannot get it to
start up on my new motherboard.
This has never happened to me before.
Any suggestions. I don't want to have to reinstall
everything.

"Klaus Iden" said in news:240a01c3e0c0$c91c8ce0$a501280a@phx.gbl:
> I have been using Win XP Pro on a MSI (K7t266 Pro2)
> motherboard for some time without any problems. My hard
> drive is an 80 GB WD.
> I recently boaught a new motherboard (ASUS A7N8X). When I
> connected the hard drive and tried to boot up I received
> an error message and the system stopped. The drive still
> works perfectly on my old system but I cannot get it to
> start up on my new motherboard.
> This has never happened to me before.
> Any suggestions. I don't want to have to reinstall
> everything.

You put a new brain in your patient. It doesn't know how to work with all
its undefined arms and legs. Go to http://support.microsoft.com and do a
search under your OS for "in-place upgrade" to repair your system (by
loading the drivers for your new critical hardware changes) so the OS knows
how to handle the IDE controllers, chipset, and whatnot. Also, if it's not
an Intel chipset (supported by the OS with embedded drivers) then you'll
have to install the chipset drivers. The Asus mobo you mention uses the
nVidia nForce chipset, so either get the chipset driver from Asus or from
nVidia ... and install it.

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