Error Loading Operating System after upgrading Motherboard

[FrankP]

I have just upgraed to a GA-K8nxp-9 motherboard. I do not have an
SATA drive just IDE drive nor do I have a Raid array. I have disabe
the raid and sata setting in the bios

The system seems to Boot fine it detects all the drives I have bee
through the first bit of the windows 2000 set up but when it reboot
after completing the first bit it simply comes up with the erro
loading operating system.

I have played with the boot order and can get it to boot from bootabl
disks and floppy drives but cannot get it to load up windows

I have tried to flash tye bios to F7 from F5 but it does not recognis
the file I downloaded from Gigabyte
Can anybody help

 

[JAD]

this a new install of the OS on a newly formatted drive or the old hard
drive with the OS installed and you are trying to boot from it with the old
motherboard drivers installed?

 

[spodosaurus]

this a new install of the OS on a newly formatted drive or the old hard
drive with the OS installed and you are trying to boot from it with the old
motherboard drivers installed?

Sounds like the latter. But hey, it's windows, so people aren't used to
having to actually do anything...just plug and pray!


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[FrankP]

I should have mentioned the drive was new as well

I start the install process and it gets through to the first reboo
and then gives me the error loading operatiing system. I have trie
win 2000, win 2000 servre and win xp pro

 

[JAD]

try at a dos prompt. fdisk /mbr

 

[TonyC]

I have just upgraed to a GA-K8nxp-9 motherboard. I do not have any
SATA drive just IDE drive nor do I have a Raid array. I have disabed
the raid and sata setting in the bios.

The system seems to Boot fine it detects all the drives I have been
through the first bit of the windows 2000 set up but when it reboots
after completing the first bit it simply comes up with the error
loading operating system.

I have played with the boot order and can get it to boot from bootable
disks and floppy drives but cannot get it to load up windows.

I have tried to flash tye bios to F7 from F5 but it does not recognise
the file I downloaded from Gigabyte.
Can anybody help?

Maybe try Memtest first, just to make sure.
http://www.memtest.org/

 

[David Maynard]

I have just upgraed to a GA-K8nxp-9 motherboard. I do not have any
SATA drive just IDE drive nor do I have a Raid array. I have disabed
the raid and sata setting in the bios.

The system seems to Boot fine it detects all the drives I have been
through the first bit of the windows 2000 set up but when it reboots
after completing the first bit it simply comes up with the error
loading operating system.

I have played with the boot order and can get it to boot from bootable
disks and floppy drives but cannot get it to load up windows.

I have tried to flash tye bios to F7 from F5 but it does not recognise
the file I downloaded from Gigabyte.
Can anybody help?

Loading the O.S. is the first time it tries to use upper memory so I'd
suspect either a memory problem or insufficient power supply or a BIOS
setting that's causing instability, not necessarily in that order.

 

[spodosaurus]

I should have mentioned the drive was new as well.

I start the install process and it gets through to the first reboot
and then gives me the error loading operatiing system. I have tried
win 2000, win 2000 servre and win xp pro.

Hi Frank,

Have you set the BIOS to 'failsafe defaults'?

I suggest you make a cd for memtest86 and run it for at least one full
pass. I've had problems during windows installs for two reasons: CPU fan
caught in its own wires and bad RAM.

Cheers,

Ari

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spammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply

I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my
neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in
hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone
marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow
transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor:
http://www.abmdr.org.au/
http://www.marrow.org/

 

[chris]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:32:38 GMT,

I should have mentioned the drive was new as well.

I start the install process and it gets through to the first reboot
and then gives me the error loading operatiing system. I have tried
win 2000, win 2000 servre and win xp pro.

Try your bios settings.plug and play os=no.turn off all video
shadowing.Turn off all non essential devices(serial
ports,usb,printer,etc) You can turn them on after install.