XP Locks Up during setup?

[dudleydocker]

I'm swapping out my mobo and was greeted with a "NTLDR is missing" at boot up. So I put in my XP disk to try to do a "fixboot" or "fixmbr" and I can't get past the screen where it says "Windows Starting" or whatever after it loads all the drivers. It just freezes.

I've tried my existing hard drive, i've tried a blank hd, same result.

All my hardware is recognized at boot-up.


Any Suggestions? I'm willing to do a clean install if I can get past the hang up point!

Thanks.

 

[dudleydocker]

OK, the problem seems to be the SCSI interface. I yanked the SCSI card and tried again and I was able to get to the Windows install menu. Sucessfully completed a clean XP install on an IDE drive. I will try to put back in the SCSI card and former boot drive (now with an ID other than 0 as = boot) and see if any of it is accessable.

 

[stash]

Did you hit F6 at the beginning of the install to load drivers for your SCSI card?

 

[dudleydocker]

You're right. It was a driver issue. I have both a 19160 and a 39160 card.
I was trying to do the install with the 39160 and assumed that XP had support for it.
Turns out only the 19160 card has native driver support in XP.

With the 19160 card installed, I'm still getting the NTLDR message. I've tried FIXBOOT and FIXMBR without success.

Any other ideas to revive my orignal install?

Thanks.