New motherboard doesn't boot from working SATA drive

[pong3d]

My 250gb hard drive booted Windows fine with my old motherboard. Then when I installed my new Asus board the computer resets itself right before it can get to the Windows boot screen.

The hard drive is correctly identified on boot on serial channel 0 as the Hitashi part number. In BIOS though the hard drive is identified as "VIA VT6420 1st HDD". VT6420 is VIA's SATA controller. Maybe it thinks I am trying to run a RAID?

I booted from my PATA drive and couldn't see the SATA drive in Windows until I installed the RAID drivers on the PATA drive.

RAID bios doesn't give me the option of deleting or creating a RAID, presumably because I only one one SATA drive.

Am I missing something obvious? I was thinking about installing the RAID drivers on the SATA drive, but because I can't boot from it I don't know how to go about it. I updated the BIOS but that didnt help. The PATA drive hangs with a blinking cursor for 1/2 minute right before the Windows boot screen. Don't know if that's a common symptom, but that also did not happen with my old MB.

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[stevty2889]

Were you trying to boot to the OS that was already installed on the SATA drive?? 9 times out of 10 that won't work when you change to a differant motherboard with a differant chipset... I would make sure raid is disabled in the bios, disconnect any PATA drives, and then do a repair install on the SATA drive. If it doesn't see the drive, then you will have to have the drivers on a floppy. Press F6 when prompted by the windows installation CD, and then continue on to do a repair install.