Re: Windows bootloader/MSI KM2M conflict

From: Mark L. Ferguson (marfer_mvpREMOVE_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/25/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 10:03:12 -0600

Well, the hard work of backup can't really be avoided if you want to make
the try safely. A Repair is the standard requirement.

Changing a Motherboard or Moving:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html 

-- 
Mark L. Ferguson (NOT an MS-MVP)
marfers notes for windows xp
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/chatNotes.htm
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"Tom" <g@thecap.org> wrote in message
news:1103902133.332910.81390@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> 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
>

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