Hi Sally,

Ok, what type of hard drive are you attempting to boot from (SATA or IDE),
and to which port on the motherboard do you have it connected? (IDE1, IDE2,
SATA SB0 or SATA SB1.) You must set your motherboard's BIOS to be able to
boot from the drive. To verify this enter your motherboard's BIOS by
pressing the DEL key during the initial POST routine. When you're in,
select "Advanced BIOS Features" and set your hard disk boot priority, then
set your 1st, 2nd and 3rd boot devices to include Floppy, CDROM and Hard
Disk.

Then go into the "Integrated Peripherals" submenu and make sure that any
IDE/SATA ports are enabled, and IF your hard drive is an SATA drive, set the
on-chip SATA to Manual, then set SATA0 as SATA Port 0 and SATA1 as SATA Port
1. Then set SATA RAID function to enabled, and Save and Exit your BIOS. No
need to fiddle with SATA settings if you don't have an SATA drive installed.

Also, if your boot hard drive is IDE, make sure that the master/slave jumper
is set properly relating to where it is connected on the IDE cable.

Start by viewing your BIOS setting as mentioned above, then re-try the
repair installation. Let us know how things go. One more thing, when the
repair installation reboots, DO NOT press any key to BOOT FROM CD when
prompted, as that will start everything from scratch all over again. Let it
try to boot from the hard drive by not pressing anything.

Russell
http://tastycomputers.com

"juzuz" wrote in message
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Russell,

When I attempt to do this, it loads the necessary files and then reboots.
It just won't stop rebooting! Any other suggestions?

Saly


"Russell" rsullivan@tastycomputersdotcom_replacedotwith "." wrote in
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Hi Sally,

You must do a repair install if you've installed a different motherboard
and
haven't formatted your hard drive and performed a clean operating system
installation (which is preferred, by the way.) To perform a repair
installation of Windows XP on a hard drive that was working before you
changed out the motherboard, see the instructions on my web site at
http://tastycomputers.com/support/fa...airinstall.htm.

I hope this helps,
Russell
http://tastycomputers.com