Can't get into Windows at all

[egale]

Just replaced my motherboard with a P5Q-E. Have a Q6600, 4gig vista ultimate 32. Last night I loaded the os, the updates, all was well.

This morning, I can get into the Bios and Express Gate but everytime I boot into windows, I get the microsoft bar with the black screen and it locks. I tried booting from the windows disk, same thing.

I then tried to boot into safe mode, regular, command prompt, doesn't matter. The last loaded driver it displays is crcdisk.sys and then it stops. Does this sound like a drive crash? Any clue? What to do next?

 

[Jeff7181]

I had a similar problem with Vista Premium on an old A7N8X motherboard. Problem was that somehow it had lost the SATA controller drivers.

What I did to fix it was download the drivers from the manufacturer website and put them on a flash drive, then boot from the Vista disc and enter recovery mode and loaded the SATA controller drivers when prompted.

 

[egale]

I replaced the hard drive with a new one. When I tried to install from the Vista CD, I had the same problem. It just won't load into the install routine either.

I can still run Express Gate and get into the bios. I did try reflashing the bios and even flashing to a previous version but now I get an error that the bios data doesn't match the file content. I have reset the bios as well but still get the error.

 

[Jeff7181]

Sounds like a motherboard problem. I'd double check the installation... make sure it's up on standoffs like it should be, and that there's nothing sitting in between the motherboard and case. Make sure cables are connected securely... maybe even swap SATA cables.

You could also try booting a Knoppix or Ubuntu live CD... if you have the same problem there then it's definitely a hardware issue.