Booting Failure with new mobo

[andrewER]

I just got this Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 yesterday along with a Seagate 160gb SATA Hardrive and an ATI x800XL.
It keeps reading my SATA Hardrive as an IDE, then asks to use Normal, Safe Mode, etc. I select one then it just restarts itself. It does this over and over again. I disabled the RAID options in BIOS and enabled SATA-1, none of this works. I have tried booting from the XP Pro cd and it tells me that I am missing DLLs needed for HAL or the file ntfs.sys couldnt be found. So now I cannot reinstall windows or boot windows. I have tried removing the SATA HD completely with the same results. I need serious help.

 

[kitkat22]

Did you install the SATA drivers? Usually the motherboard comes with a CD or a floppy to allow the recognition of SATA.

 

[andrewER]

I cannot even boot windows, much less install drivers. I said I took out the SATA drive and it still did the same thing.

 

[kitkat22]

Did you just swap the motherboard? ie did you just take out the old and put in the new without doing anything else?

 

[feelingshorter]

man im having the same problem with a new ai7 abit mobo. I still havent figured out solution either. I have same exact problem.

 

[kitkat22]

I need someone to confirm this; I remember a few years back someone telling me when you replace a motherboard you essentially have to reinstall windows. This creates an issue with OEM versions of Windows and wreaks havoc with drivers.

 

[andrewER]

No actually I just swapped them out. I had done this before and had no problem with windows, but now its driving me insane. I remember at first Windows didnt see my SATA HD, but once it did, it freaked. Thanks for the continued help

 

[veloc1ty]

A BOOGA BOOGEY BOO

 

[andrewER]

alright I tried resetting CMOS with no luck.... any suggestions?

 

[kitkat22]

How are you trying to install windows? Fresh install? Other than that and checking jumpers etc, I would say RMA and get another board. I'm at a loss. (Just to let you know I'm not horribly experienced, I'm just tossing out thoughts and suggestions I've heard.)

 

[andrewER]

thanks anyway, I have read some other forums and heard that it is most likely a hardware problem (quite possibly the memory). I am checking both sticks now. If that doesnt work I am taking my board and memory back to frys.

 

[leigh6]

I had same problem with not being able to install windows or run any program. I just wiped the hard drive clean, started over, and everything was fine.

Oh, I had a program sent to me called data wipe. I installed it on a floppy and booted the computer from the floppy to wipe the hard drive clean.

I am guessing you messed up files on the hard drive. (I certainly did). This, though, did fix it 100%

Leigh

 

[andrewER]

alright I just tested both of my sticks of RAM, one at a time. It seems one of my sticks is bad, because it booted windows with the one, but with the other it just did the same thing.

 

[kitkat22]

Now that you mention it, I did have a similiar issue a few years back working with a 133mhz processor and 32mbs of RAM. Turned out of the 16MB sticks was bad. Took me about 5 hours to come to that conclusion though. Glad it turned out well.

 

[andrewER]

Yea few. So happy it wasnt my motherboard

 

[vrbaba]

Originally posted by: cscpianoman
I need someone to confirm this; I remember a few years back someone telling me when you replace a motherboard you essentially have to reinstall windows. This creates an issue with OEM versions of Windows and wreaks havoc with drivers.

every time you change your mobo/cpu, you need to repair/reinstall Windows. Im not sure how yours even worked by removing a stick. Mobo/CPU is considered a "major" hardware change which windows does not support. I would backup media and documents from the installation partition, and try to reinstall windows.
I am not completely sure that it is the stick of ram, but very well could be.
But I would recommend a clean install to save you pulling your hair out for any unforeseen future problems due to this.

 

[andrewER]

Yea Im positive it was the stick. I have swapped mobo's before and had no problem with windows...