MotherBoard help!
 

OK well i recently got a ASUS M2A-VM HDMI version coupled with an AMD athlonX2 5400+ and everything seems to be working fine

-2gigs of Crucial ddr2 ram.
-hard drive taken from my previous computer with everything still on it Windows XP a bunch of music, games, ect...

i get too beeps from the BIOs
and then it it says Boot Disk Failure, i've got no floppy installed and nothing in the CD drive. Wondering if anyone can give me some hints on what too do. I have updated my bios like ASUS site told me to do in the situation but it didn't help at all.

need to get everything working before the 30th cause there was a 40 dollar rebate on the memory

Shouldn't you be reinstalling XP with a new motherboard?

should i be?
i'm not na authority or anything on this so if anyone has more incite on this that would be extremely helpful

For new builds you gotta install a fresh copy of xp (if that's your flavor os)

75% of the time a motherboard switch will require a reinstall of XP. There are ways to decrease the chance (deleting all hardware from device manager before you take the HDD out is one of them) but it's never sure-fire. That error is most likely caused by the new motherboard chipset.

so if i get a new hard drive and slave it as the back up can i take the files i need off of the old hard drive?

the board you got uses the AMD 690G chipset, it's a fairly "new gen" chipset, it's not going to play well with an old install of XP because your old install is going "hey wheres this chipset I'm used to?" such as something like nforce4 or something. I've taken nforce to nforce before and it worked, but i've never managed to go from one board to another if they are using different chipsets.

so, i'm just gonna say, what everyone else said in that regard is correct.

if you get a new hard drive you may as well make it the master drive and install your OS on it and then mount your old master as the slave. then youc an just delete the old windows directory off of it and be done with it (after you pull out your "my documents" and desktop stuff from the old install of course)

ok well here comes the second problem, i've never done this before so be specific

my next hard drive will have to be sata raid because i've only got 1 IDE slot

can i still use the old hard drive as a back up without it being sata raid?

RAID != SATA. But yes, you can run a SATA drive and a PATA drive in the same system.

The only problem I see with using an SATA drive with a PATA drive as slave is that many of the MBs out there do NOT support SATA drive booting. I learned this the hard way a little while back. "Boot Disk Failure" can mean several things. Check your bios settings and make sure that you have the options set up to look for your CD drive first (In case of a system failure, you can select this option to assist in recovery of a failed drive) and ALSO make sure that you have the option selected for "Look for other boot devices" or something of that nature. I am willing to bet that your Bios is set to look for the CD drive first, and not set up to check for other boot devices, so it never looks for your "c" drive. Good luck!