argh!@ mb upgrade

[downinfront]

I was asked to check out a buddies new system. he upgraded his mobo to a ecs 848p-a everything was swapped mirror image, so same ide's and jumper settings' and now when you boot it, it hits the boot options and says a recent hardware or software change may have caused this, and it wont boot to a prompt, safe mode, or anyhting, it just restarts regardless and does the same thing. It will also not boot from a cd, I tried the mobo cd and damnsmalllinux. I do not know the old equip as he does not know. any help on where to get started would be good.

 

[Him]

What OS are you running? Have you gone to the BIOS and checked the boot sequence? Make sure it is set to boot from the CD first, and HDD second.

 

[Apokalipse]

you have to do a repair install of your OS after you put in a new motherboard
if it is 2000 or XP, put in the OS CD on boot, at the first screen press enter to start install, go through a couple of screens until after you see "checking for previous versions of microsoft windows" and after that press 'r' to start a repair install

 

[m3trj]

I think it would be better to completely reinstall Windows.

 

[Raekwon]

yeah, i agree with m3trj a reinstall would be far better because then you wont have any of your old drivers, so there wouldnt ever be any conflicts.

 

[downinfront]

I repaired the install, everything seems to be going ok, I just needed a quick fix, its not my system and after I give it back, it wont be my problem. I was just doing a favor for a top level here at work.