can't boot win xp

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Paragon

Ok, here's the situation:
I recently fried my motherboard, and I just installed a new standard
motherboard. My equipment:
AMD Athlon 1800 1.5ghz
1 cd rom (master)
1 cd writer
1 120 gb hd (slave)
1 40 gb hd (master)
1 GB DDR Ram

I know for a fact my processor and ram are perfectly ok, but here's
the problem: I tried to start up my computer with the new motherboard,
and it wouldn't detect ANY IDE devices. I tried various combinations
till i found one that worked. I removed my writer, and it started to
boot fine. I have a dual boot linux/xp, and it took me to the screen
to pick my os. if I pick XP, it will boot to a certain point and just
freeze or reboot, without any error. If i try to boot in safe mode, it
freezes at the "loading amdagp.sys" line. Linux won't load either, it
hits a fatal error when it tries to load a driver that might have to
do with device irq's ??
I have been able to run scandisk on my master drive several times,
doesn't seem to help. I even tried to repair my XP using the CDROM,
that didn't work either.
Any suggestions would be great.
 
Open the BIOS,exit page,select,load set-up defaults.
Then save changes and exit BIOS.Its taking into fact
that the new board is configured properly.
 
Your XP was activated based on your old motherboard. Now, since your have
changed the motherboard, XP can not startup correctly. You will need to do
a repair re-install of XP over top the installed version. You should not
loose any files/programs/data but you will have to re-apply any service
packs/updates again.

Y.
 
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