Replaced motherboard, now can't boot

[Darryl]

Greetings,
I had Win2000 installed on a machine with an Abit BX133 motherboard.
The Raid IDE port on this board is ATA100 and thats where I had the
boot drive connected.

The motherboard shot craps. Couldn't find an exact duplicate so bought
a new Intel 865 motherboard with P4 processor. Connected the boot
drive to the primary ide (checked that the bios saw it, etc). when I try
and
boot Win2000, it gives me a blue screen with a message that it can't find
the boot drive.

I assume this has to do with the boot drive previously being attached to
a IDE Raid port (was NOT using Raid).

How can I get this to boot ?

thanks for any ideas,
Darryl

 

[Mike Levy]

You need to do an in-place upgrade. Win 2K doesn't like major
hardware changes too much. Follow the directions at the link below

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q292175

 

[Darryl]

Did that before posting. Didn't make a difference.
I thought It might have something to do with the boot
file having incorrect references.

 

[Brian Smither]

If your blue screen is "Inaccessible Boot Device," then the BOOT.INI file
might need editing. But an in-place upgrade should have taken care of that.

The next obstacle that might hit you would be different brand IDE bridge
chipsets. Knowledge Base article 271965 discusses this. None of their
solutions include the scenario of a hosed motherboard.

Brian Smither
Smither Consulting