Asus A7N8X Deluxe does not recognize IBM 80 gig HD

[johnhimm]

Greetings all,
Last night I installed my new MB Asus A7N8X deluxe to replace the existing Asus A7S333 in my XP 2200 machine. Specs are XP2200, Windows XP Home, (2) 512MB's PC2700 RAM, 80 Gig IBM harddrive, formated NTFS, CD burner, cd drive, Nvidea TI 4600 video card (128) mb ram.
Ok, installation appeared to go very smoothly, after rechecking everything I powered up the system, listened to the nice voices (mb feature) telling me all was AOK, go to the screen where it says Boot in safe mode, start windows, start at command prompt, well anyway each of these reboots the system and returns me back to this window. I checked the IBM hard drive and it was set to master, and its the only drive on the flat ribbon cable. I then went to Bios Setup, and it says Auto on hard drive selection and says 82 MB. I again checked all connections and restarted to only come to the same results. I then replace the new MB with the old and everything was fine. I know it must be something simple that I'm not doing. Any Ideas would be helpfull.
thanks
John

 

[Bobg1]

Check the boot sequence in bios.
make sure its not set for serial ata.

 

[wolluf]

Can I clarify - you have just changed the motherboard in your machine - everything else (including XP installation) is the same?

This is not a good idea (at least without some preliminary work, to prepare the XP installation for the fact its going to be moved). Have a look here (may give some pointers):-

http://www.windowsreinstall.com/install/other/motherboard/problems.htm

http://www.mostlycreativeworkshop.com/article11.htm

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