Boot Fails

[mondobyte]

Ok ... I came home from work ... the computer was dead. On inspection, I discovered a number of blown capacitors on the mobo.

I installed a new motherboard but now it fails to boot from the HD although it does ID it properly (after a very long pause)

I can boot from a CD.

Should I suspect the HD or the PSU?

 

[AKA]

Neither.

What do you mean it fails to boot from hard drive?

Did you replace motherboard with another one thats identical?


What OS do you have on the hard drive?

 

[nanaki333]

does it load the splash screen and then just reset after that and never get to the login screen? when you booted off of the disc, did you go through and get to where your partitions are listed? your partition may have died and been set to UNKNOWN. we've seen it all too often here.

 

[mondobyte]

I replaced the motherboard. I used the same memory, processor, and NICs

The new motherboard takes forever to detect the IDE drives when the HD is plugged into the IDE cable. When not plugged in it rips right through.

I swapped the IDE interfaces cables on the motherboard - same. I swapped out the IDE cable for a known good one - same.

I swapped in a known good HD and it boots right up and does a BSOD (wrong chipset - doh - expected that) when it gets to mup.sys.

I swapped in another known good HD with DOS 6.21 and it boots to DOS just fine.

I installed a SCSI Host and a SCSI drive that has booted before on this mobo and it boots fine.

So what are the odds that the blown caps on the MOBO took out the HD and only the HD? Seems suspicious to me. BTW there was a second hard drive in the system (same IDE ribbon) and I can access it just fine.

The failed board in question is an ECS K7S5A 3.1.

 

[Fern]

Download the free diagnostic software the HD manufacturers put on their website. Run it and see if ur HD was damaged.