Wont boot

[quantumburnz]

Well when i start my computer with my hard drive plugged in it hangs after it checks the ide devices. If i boot with out installing hard drive it goes past that but them asks for system disk and it wont boot at 133mhz fsb like it was suppose to. All i did was switch out a mobo and i started getting all these ^%$&%&% problems. At first it was just the fsb that wouldnt work and now my hard drive isnt working. I have a clean install of windows xp on there too. My specs are:

SOYO k7ada mother board
AMD ATHLON TBIRD 1200mhz 266fsb
Corsair 256mb DDR 2100
Geforce 2 PRO 64mb DDR w/fan not spinning up
No pci cards installed at the moment time

Any one have any idea on what I could do to get this to work or what i need to replace.

[wildbilly2k]

Well when i start my computer with my hard drive plugged in it
Sorry here it is again i forgot to sign out of my friends name before i started posting again:

hangs after it checks the ide devices. If i boot with out installing hard drive it goes past that but them asks for system disk and it wont boot at 133mhz fsb like it was suppose to. All i did was switch out a mobo and i started getting all these ^%$&%&% problems. At first it was just the fsb that wouldnt work and now my hard drive isnt working. I have a clean install of windows xp on there too. My specs are:

SOYO k7ada mother board
AMD ATHLON TBIRD 1200mhz 266fsb
Corsair 256mb DDR 2100
Geforce 2 PRO 64mb DDR w/fan not spinning up
No pci cards installed at the moment time

Any one have any idea on what I could do to get this to work or what i need to replace.

[flounder43]

If you swap your mobo, you might need to totally reformat and reinstall your OS...In fact, I would recomend it...

[LinkStatic]

Your problem is definitely driver related ( device drivers )

Switching mobos is one major hardware change that requires uninstalling the previous mobos device drivers and installing the new ones... which would be too tasking. A full format and OS install would be necessary...

[Shadow ÒÓ]

or, if you can make it to safe mode, delete all drivers from the device manager. When you reboot, it'll reinstall the new drivers for the new board. (not recommended for a perm fix tho)

[wildbilly2k]

It's hanging during detection of IDE drives, what do you think this is? I can't even get it to boot.

[jazztrumpet216]

I would tend to agree with Flounder. A mobo swap requires an installation of a lot of new drivers. I tried it once, and it didn't work. How you're going to reformat your drive is beyond me, since you can't get past the detection at boot up. Maybe get a really big magnet??? lol. If you have another old drive laying around, try plugging that one in to see if it'll work then. If you don't... then I'm not entirely sure what you can do. Maybe your friend has an extra blank HD you can use. Also, if you have a RAID card, try putting that in a PCI slot and see if it'll detect your HD then. It is possible you have a board with a bad IDE controller, it's happened to me. Not likely though. This can be remedied by a controller card. See if you can dig up an extra HD to verify wether it is your HD or your mobo.

[wildbilly2k]

ok the i got it fixed but the jumper on the back of the hard drive was set wrong for some reason but it still wouldnt boot up at 133 fsb and i had to switch out the board for another one. Man i love frys return policys.