Replaced motherboard, now can't boot

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Darryl

Greetings,
I had Win2000 installed on a machine with an Abit BX133 motherboard.
The Raid IDE port on this board is ATA100 and thats where I had the
boot drive connected.

The motherboard shot craps. Couldn't find an exact duplicate so bought
a new Intel 865 motherboard with P4 processor. Connected the boot
drive to the primary ide (checked that the bios saw it, etc). when I try
and
boot Win2000, it gives me a blue screen with a message that it can't find
the boot drive.

I assume this has to do with the boot drive previously being attached to
a IDE Raid port (was NOT using Raid).

How can I get this to boot ?

thanks for any ideas,
Darryl
 
Did that before posting. Didn't make a difference.
I thought It might have something to do with the boot
file having incorrect references.
 
If your blue screen is "Inaccessible Boot Device," then the BOOT.INI file
might need editing. But an in-place upgrade should have taken care of that.

The next obstacle that might hit you would be different brand IDE bridge
chipsets. Knowledge Base article 271965 discusses this. None of their
solutions include the scenario of a hosed motherboard.

Brian Smither
Smither Consulting
 
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