Serious problem in need of help

wpaschke · Apr-10-2004

Here's my situation. I have an ABIT KD7 motherboard and an Athlon XP 2400+ processor. I bought a 2600+ to upgrade a little. The computer did not like the 2600, even though it is supposed to support it. I attempted a flash bios update, and now the computer does not boot at all. No vido bios, no memory count, no error beep codes. The drives all get power, and that's where it stops.

I bought an ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard to try and get things back up and going again. The real problem I have is that the VIA KT400 IDE Drivers are installed in my Windows XP. The new board has the nVidia chipset now, and I get the "inaccessible boot device" blue screen. Is there a way I can get into my hard drive and remove the drivers from XP without having to reinstall the OS? Can something be done from the recovery console to remove the ide driver and get the machine to boot?

dreamnid · May-03-2004

Try booting off the CD, goto Recovery Console and do "fixboot"

I'm not totally sure if it will help, but it wouldn't hurt to try