Re: Windows bootloader/MSI KM2M conflict
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Date: 12/24/04
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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:18:26 GMT
"Tom" <g@thecap.org> wrote in message
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> My parents have a 300MHz Pentium 2 with a 40GB Maxtor IDE holding a
> single NTFS partition with Windows XP Pro. I am trying to move them to
> a MSI KM2M motherboard with a AMD XP 2100, but Windows stops booting
> with the "Error loading operating system" message.
>
> All the following produce the same message:
> - 2 different video cards (AGP and PCI)
> - 2 different SDR RAMs. Both were operating okay on the old board and
> each passed the slow BIOS check on the new board.
> - Changing every BIOS option I can find in different combinations.
> Disabled cache, disabled any not-ide built in hardware, disabled UDMA.
> Resetting to "Fail-safe" default settings, resetting using the CMOS
> memory clear jumper
> - Running fixboot and fixmbr in Windows Recovery Console. (fixmbr
> didn't change a single byte in the first 512 of the disk according to
> snapshots taken in Linux)
> - Moving the Maxtor to [secondary IDE,master] and then starting Windows
> from lilo running on a different drive (with options other=/dev/hdc
> master-boot)
> - Reading
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326676 , the
> board has Award BIOS 6.0 and no option to disable LDB
>
> After all of this I tried the drive with the old motherboard and it
> still works the same as always.
>
> Physically the drive is fine. Using Linux I can grab random bytes from
> the disk and it looks okay. I'm not sure why Windows can't load from
> it, but have stopped short of disassembling the MS boot loader because
> I don't know anything about BIOS calls.
>
> I have not tried Repair installation from the XP install CD because I'm
> afraid it will destroy my parents' settings and they don't want to lose
> them. Is this reasonable?
>
> Any hints would be great. I don't want to leave my parents using a PII
> 300MHz when an 1.7GHz is in their house, but I'm flying out in about a
> day.
>
> Thank you and have a happy Dec 24,
> Tom
If you are not replacing motherboard hardware with the same exact type then
a repair installation of XP is almost surely going to be required, because
improper motherboard drivers (at least) are otherwise installed that were
intended for the old motherboard hardware. To avoid possible loss of current
HDD content, and you say that boot disk works fine with the old motherboard,
then make a bootable image copy of it to another hard disk and thoroughly
"TEST IT" before assuming that the copy went perfectly (often it silently
does not). Be sure to check to make sure that applications work on the new
image drive, too. Others have said that this should not be necessary (and I
agree) but my experience has shown several times that Microsoft Works might
have to be reinstalled for *all* of its functionality to work again on the
new imaged drive even if everything else seems to be working just fine. So I
recommend that the CD's and their installation key be available if Works or
Office is being used. And another point, which some say should not be
necessary but my experience has found to be necessary *before* the 1st boot
of an imaged drive is to perform a full and complete check for bad sectors
and to let problems be fixed automatically. All this takes a lot of time
(and another HDD), and prudent care, and it looks like you're up against the
clock.
Winguy
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