so frustrated

[purplehazeus]

Heyo,

if someone could ease my brain I would be grateful. I just got a new motherboard and it isn't recognizing the windows xp on my harddrive. I tried reinstalling xp on my old motherboard and then putting it on the new mobo and it didn't work. I tried booting from the installation cd disk ( i tried switching the boot up from bios it didn't work) I also tried booting from an old windows 98 floppy disk, it didn't recognize either. what could be the problem? Someone told me that because the windows was set up on another mobo with different memory, It was trying to find stuff from the memory on the old board.(which I can't switch over)

So here it is that I've completely disconnected everything reset the cmos and formatted the hard drive(still doesn't recognize the windows xp disk or boot floppy)

wah! I'm on a one way trip to bluesville. Any ideas?

 

[mpilchfamily]

So its not recognizing the windows CD? In the motherboard set to boot from CD?

 

[krnmastersgt]

The reason isn't the ram or anything like that, XP is loaded with the older motherboard's chipset drivers, so it won't load properly on a newer/different chipset unless you're extremely lucky.
Either install XP on the new motherboard or get the drivers for that motherboard, put it on a floppy or thumb drive and then install XP on the older motherboard.