Help! I have a new P4P800 Deluxe

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I am trying to move my Maxtor 80gig HDD that was working fine in my
old board (MSI 648MAX). It boots up to the windows (XP PRO) initial
start and then reboots to start again. This continues. Won't boot to
safe mode either. I tried a HDD from another machine with an Intel
board and a WinXP Pro load with the same result and another with a
Win2k load ... same result.
If I make a new Windows load connected to this Asus board on another
drive, it boots up and runs just fine. So it's not the power supply or
any bit of hardware. Something from making the load on another
motherbaord maybe???

Any suggestions to get this old load to work. I even went and tried
to do a "repair" after booting to the WinXP Pro CD. It locked up
about half way through the procedure.



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I couldn't get it to work on my P4C800-E Deluxe either. It worked on
my old Asus mobo. The tech that I bought the board from said it
wouldn't work, needed a clean install. So that's what I did. I tried
every configuration with no luck. Hope you have better luck.
 
When I bought my p4p800 deluxe I put in a brand new hardrive, and slaved my
old harddrive.

My CD ROM drive is the master on IDE 2.

That way you get a clean OS load, but you still have all your old data on
the 2nd hard drive.
 
dallyup52 said:
I am trying to move my Maxtor 80gig HDD that was working fine in my
old board (MSI 648MAX). It boots up to the windows (XP PRO) initial
start and then reboots to start again. This continues. Won't boot to
safe mode either. I tried a HDD from another machine with an Intel
board and a WinXP Pro load with the same result and another with a
Win2k load ... same result.
If I make a new Windows load connected to this Asus board on another
drive, it boots up and runs just fine. So it's not the power supply or
any bit of hardware. Something from making the load on another
motherbaord maybe???

Any suggestions to get this old load to work. I even went and tried
to do a "repair" after booting to the WinXP Pro CD. It locked up
about half way through the procedure.



Sam
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It is extremely difficult if at all to get a HD that was installed on
another montherboard to work on a new motherboard with an entirely
different architechure that the original. The reason it keeps rebooting
is because the HD controllers are so differnt from board to board that
it can't find anything to latch on to. I have made this work but it
wasmore work than it was worth. For system stability do a clean
install.
 
If I make a new Windows load connected to this Asus board on another
drive, it boots up and runs just fine. So it's not the power supply or
any bit of hardware. Something from making the load on another
motherbaord maybe???

Any suggestions to get this old load to work. I even went and tried
to do a "repair" after booting to the WinXP Pro CD. It locked up
about half way through the procedure.
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I had the same problem! I couldn't install XP cause it kept locking
up. I even put in another hard drive as master. finally, the only
thing that did it, was taking out one of my memory sticks. I had two
512 meg sticks and so went to a single and everything worked. I even
managed to install XP to my original drive, and just delete all the
windows stuff. I didn't even know I could do that. It sure is nice to
be able to leave my boot drive intact, but install a brand new XP onto
it.

After getting everything working I put the other stick of memory back
in and voila! I've managed to pump up my bios setting for performance
and no problems at all.

I don't know for sure if this memory trick was what finally caused my
machine to work right, or what. It's weird. I really did try
everything before finally suspecting the memory. The reason I did was
my memory is a cheaper memory and I had to run underclocked on my
other MB. So I didn't know if this MB would run with it at all.

Anyway, I was thinking that the computer would be less fussy about a
single stick, cause it wouldn't be running in DDR mode. I don't know
but it is in DDR now with both sticks, like I said, weird.
 
When you have a computer that has a harddrive running XP, if you change the
motherboard you HAVE to reformat the harddrive and do a clean install of XP
ON THE SAME COMPUTER with the new motherboard. You CANNOT load XP on
another computer and then transfer it or you get nasty ongoing Registry
errors.
 
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