Rebuilt rig, wont boot

[wetech]

I just upgraded my computer. MSI K-333 MB, Athlon XP-1800+, 512M Crucial DDR. and a new 80GB IBM HD.

Rather then put the new HD in and have to install windows again (I'm transfering everything on the old one to this new one), which I'll do this weekend. I swapped out the above with my old gear.

However, it refuses to boot now. It gets to the Windows 2k screen (with the windows logo and the blue bar scrolling on the bottom), but from there goes to a blue screen saying that there is an inaccessable boot device.

The thing is, it recognizes the C: in the BIOS.

Any ideas,
I've checked all the connections and swapped out the cables.

 

[minendo]

The OS won't boot because you have changed all the components. The biggest problem arises from changing the mobo.

 

[Ape]

If it had booted. Your machine would have probably chashed shortly after. Win 2k would have been looking for you old mobos stuff while find all the new mobos stuff. If I were you, just backup up your data and reinstall. Ape Out.

 

[BenRosey]

Unfortunately, Ape's plan is the only option. Hooray M$

 

[wetech]

I installed the new HD and a fresh copy of Win 2K. That solved the booting problem. I basically new this was the solution, but my schedule prevented me from trying it the night I put this together.

So now I have another problem. Windows boots fine with everything installed now. However, this is with the FSB at the factory default 100Mhz, leaving my Athlon 1800+ running at 1150Mhz. When I turn it up to 133 FSB, windows refuses to boot. After the black Loading Windows screen, I get yet another blue error message. Something about Kmode not supported (It's something like that, I'm trying to do this off the top of my head, as I'm at work now.)

Any ideas?

MSI K-333
Athlon XP 1800+
IBM Deskstar 80GB
2 x 256MB Crucial DDR

 

[zGhost]

what Vid card to do have running.... I've had this problem and it was because the vid card would not support the increased FSB.... when you change it from 100 to 133 you also increase the bus speed of the AGP and PCI slots. This maybe the issue but it's hard to sy.

Good Luck
zGhost

 

[GAZZA]

I have swapped out from aBX chipset to a SIS735 chipset without having to reformat , win2k and Xp tend to be alot more forgiving than win98/me in that department .

The old way used to be to remove everything from your device manager and then shutdown , change hardware and reboot letting windows find all the new hardware.

But with that said I also imaged the whole partition before I did it just to be safe.

Ape's plan is sound and seems your only choice now unless you change back to your old system and then back everything up and then swap again , but that is prob too much hassle unless you have the time.

 

[wetech]

I'm now running on a fresh install of Win2k on the new harddrive. After I got that running, I installed my old HD and copied my files over.

I'm running a brand new Abit GeForce 4 Ti4200 64M DDR.

I just bought it with the rest of the hardware.