New motherboard in but in a BIOS loop
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From: Joe T. on 6 Dec 2009 23:29 I put in my new board from an earlier post. I have the BIOS set to boot order as noted by http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm#RI. CD, HD, floppy. I have the HD as master and CD as slave on my IDE cable. My HD is jumped as master and CD as slave. It boots like this: 1. BIOS Screen. Master and scondary identified. 2. Next screen says "Sorry for the inconvience...etc with 3 options- Safe mode, command prompt, network or normal. 3. Safe and normal choice just reboots and the cycle starts allover again with same results. The only way I can get to the blue XP setup screen is to unplug my HD. Only then will it read the CD. It will get to the repair option screen but what good will that do if my HD is unplugged? I exited, F3, because I didn't think it would do anything with the HD unplgged. Logic dictates if HD is unplugged, no data will be sent to HD. Right? I even tried to put my board disk thinking it would load drivers then be able to do XP but no. Suggestions please.
From: Joe T. on 7 Dec 2009 00:39 Correction - The "Sorry for the inconvience...etcs" screen shows these options: Safe mode safe mode with networking safe mode with command prompt last known good connection start windows normally. Selecting 1, 3, 4 & 5 just puts it into reboot and back again. "Joe T." wrote: > I put in my new board from an earlier post. I have the BIOS set to boot order > as noted by http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm#RI. > CD, HD, floppy. > I have the HD as master and CD as slave on my IDE cable. My HD is jumped as > master and CD as slave. It boots like this: > 1. BIOS Screen. Master and secondary identified. > 2. Next screen says "Sorry for the inconvience...etc with 3 options- Safe > mode, command prompt, network or normal. > 3. Safe and normal choice just reboots and the cycle starts all over again > with same results. > The only way I can get to the blue XP setup screen is to unplug my HD. > Only then will it read the CD. It will get to the repair option screen but > what good will that do if my HD is unplugged? I exited, F3, because I didn't > think it would do anything with the HD unplgged. Logic dictates if HD is > unplugged, no data will be sent to HD. Right? > I even tried to put my board disk thinking it would load drivers then be > able to do XP but no. > Suggestions please.
From: David B. on 7 Dec 2009 11:33 You need to perform a repair install due to the motherboard swap and hard drive controller change. If that's what your trying to do you need to change the boot order so your CD drive is before the hard drive. -- -- "Joe T." <JoeT(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8219B21D-0148-41E8-A852-8EEDF75B9359(a)microsoft.com... >I put in my new board from an earlier post. I have the BIOS set to boot >order > as noted by http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm#RI. > CD, HD, floppy. > I have the HD as master and CD as slave on my IDE cable. My HD is jumped > as > master and CD as slave. It boots like this: > 1. BIOS Screen. Master and scondary identified. > 2. Next screen says "Sorry for the inconvience...etc with 3 options- Safe > mode, command prompt, network or normal. > 3. Safe and normal choice just reboots and the cycle starts allover again > with same results. > The only way I can get to the blue XP setup screen is to unplug my HD. > Only then will it read the CD. It will get to the repair option screen but > what good will that do if my HD is unplugged? I exited, F3, because I > didn't > think it would do anything with the HD unplgged. Logic dictates if HD is > unplugged, no data will be sent to HD. Right? > I even tried to put my board disk thinking it would load drivers then be > able to do XP but no. > Suggestions please.
From: Joe T. on 7 Dec 2009 20:49 Bios says boot order is CD, HD, Floppy. The only way it sees the CD is if I unplug the HD. I get a endless bios reboot loop when I have the HD plugged in. "David B." wrote: > You need to perform a repair install due to the motherboard swap and hard > drive controller change. If that's what your trying to do you need to change > the boot order so your CD drive is before the hard drive. > > -- > > > -- > "Joe T." <JoeT(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:8219B21D-0148-41E8-A852-8EEDF75B9359(a)microsoft.com... > >I put in my new board from an earlier post. I have the BIOS set to boot > >order > > as noted by http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm#RI. > > CD, HD, floppy. > > I have the HD as master and CD as slave on my IDE cable. My HD is jumped > > as > > master and CD as slave. It boots like this: > > 1. BIOS Screen. Master and scondary identified. > > 2. Next screen says "Sorry for the inconvience...etc with 3 options- Safe > > mode, command prompt, network or normal. > > 3. Safe and normal choice just reboots and the cycle starts allover again > > with same results. > > The only way I can get to the blue XP setup screen is to unplug my HD. > > Only then will it read the CD. It will get to the repair option screen but > > what good will that do if my HD is unplugged? I exited, F3, because I > > didn't > > think it would do anything with the HD unplgged. Logic dictates if HD is > > unplugged, no data will be sent to HD. Right? > > I even tried to put my board disk thinking it would load drivers then be > > able to do XP but no. > > Suggestions please. > > . >
From: Joe T. on 8 Dec 2009 01:09
Well, it won't boot from CD to HD so I pulled the HD and put it in a external USB holder and now it's repairing. Still may have a problem though. I'll see when it gets one. Pray. "David B." wrote: > You need to perform a repair install due to the motherboard swap and hard > drive controller change. If that's what your trying to do you need to change > the boot order so your CD drive is before the hard drive. > > -- > > > -- > "Joe T." <JoeT(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:8219B21D-0148-41E8-A852-8EEDF75B9359(a)microsoft.com... > >I put in my new board from an earlier post. I have the BIOS set to boot > >order > > as noted by http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm#RI. > > CD, HD, floppy. > > I have the HD as master and CD as slave on my IDE cable. My HD is jumped > > as > > master and CD as slave. It boots like this: > > 1. BIOS Screen. Master and scondary identified. > > 2. Next screen says "Sorry for the inconvience...etc with 3 options- Safe > > mode, command prompt, network or normal. > > 3. Safe and normal choice just reboots and the cycle starts allover again > > with same results. > > The only way I can get to the blue XP setup screen is to unplug my HD. > > Only then will it read the CD. It will get to the repair option screen but > > what good will that do if my HD is unplugged? I exited, F3, because I > > didn't > > think it would do anything with the HD unplgged. Logic dictates if HD is > > unplugged, no data will be sent to HD. Right? > > I even tried to put my board disk thinking it would load drivers then be > > able to do XP but no. > > Suggestions please. > > . > |