Changing motherboard

[estame6]

I have a compaq 7594 celeron computer with xp sp2.
A few weeks back it wouldn't boot and found the cpu
fan caked with dust and was not operating and felt that
I had cooked the cpu.

A friend gave me a A7V micro atx motherboard and
a 4.3 gb hard drive just to test which installed and
booted perferctly. I changed over to my 30 gb hard
drive and just receive a disk read error message.

Entering into bios setup, it recognizes the hard drive
but just wont boot from it. I dont want to loose all my
work so I would like to try to get this hd working.

Any suggestions please.

 

[estame6]

There was also a voltage missing to the fan.
Checked all voltages from power supply, all
were present.

 

[JockoBailey]

I have a compaq 7594 celeron computer with xp sp2.
A few weeks back it wouldn't boot and found the cpu
fan caked with dust and was not operating and felt that
I had cooked the cpu.

A friend gave me a A7V micro atx motherboard and
a 4.3 gb hard drive just to test which installed and
booted perferctly. I changed over to my 30 gb hard
drive and just receive a disk read error message.

Entering into bios setup, it recognizes the hard drive
but just wont boot from it. I dont want to loose all my
work so I would like to try to get this hd working.

Any suggestions please.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

 

[DL]

A repair install is required when mobo is changed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
then mobo chipset drivers, and maybe other hw drivers need to be installed.
However it is possible your Compaq win installation is locked to the hw it
was supplied with and as such you may not be able to repair. If so you
should install your hd as slave on another working sys and recover data
there.
And since it maybe that the fan has no supply you might not want to risk
trying to power the sys up to fry everything again.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I have a compaq 7594 celeron computer with xp sp2.
A few weeks back it wouldn't boot and found the cpu
fan caked with dust and was not operating and felt that
I had cooked the cpu.

A friend gave me a A7V micro atx motherboard and
a 4.3 gb hard drive just to test which installed and
booted perferctly. I changed over to my 30 gb hard
drive and just receive a disk read error message.

Entering into bios setup, it recognizes the hard drive
but just wont boot from it. I dont want to loose all my
work so I would like to try to get this hd working.

Any suggestions please.

Normally, and assuming a retail license (many factory-installed OEM
installations are BIOS-locked to a specific chipset and therefore *not*
transferable to a new motherboard - check yours before starting), unless
the new motherboard is virtually identical (same chipset, same IDE
controllers, same BIOS version, etc.) to the one on which the WinXP
installation was originally performed, you'll need to perform a repair
(a.k.a. in-place upgrade) installation, at the very least:

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341

Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with WinXP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

The "why" is quite simple, really: You've pulled the proverbial
hardware rug out from under the OS. (If you don't like -- or get -- the
rug analogy, think of it as picking up a Cape Cod style home and then
setting it down onto a Ranch style foundation. It just isn't going to
fit.) WinXP, like Win2K before it, is not nearly as "promiscuous" as
Win9x when it comes to accepting any old hardware configuration you
throw at it. On installation it "tailors" itself to the specific
hardware found. This is one of the reasons that the entire WinNT/2K/XP
OS family is so much more stable than the Win9x group.


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Bruce Chambers

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