A few things, Update the BIOS to the latest, then clear the CMOS, and then
reconfigure the BIOS. Then you have to wipe the drives clean, there is a
tool called "zapart" that will erase all partitions and the "Boot sector"
which fdisk sometimes doesn't do. If you have Western Digital Hard drives
the there is a program from WD to perform a Zero write to the HDDs. If you
can't find the Zapart Utility then email me at [log in to unmask]

Jesse

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From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rich Adams
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 8:28 PM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Albatron / Athlon based system will not boot

My intent is to upgrade my system which presently has a Gigabyte
MB and an Athlon 1600.

I have purschased an Albatron KX18D Pro II motherboard, a AMD
Athlon XP 2800+, and 2 Corsair ValueSelect 512 Meg PC3200 memories.
I am using an existing Video card and hard drives, which have
Windows 2000 Professional with SP3 installed.

The motherboard correctly identifies the CPU and the hard drives.
However, every time I try to boot, I get through the "Starting
Windows" display and to the color Windows 2000 Professional boot
display. The little blue bar at the bottom of this display makes
one segment light, and then I get a blue screen with stop error
"Inaccessable_boot_device". I have set the BIOS to multipliers
all the way down to 10, and still the same error. I swapped HD
cables and also tried a single hard drive. I took the HD out of
another computer that booted fine and got the same error when I
put it in with the KX18D motherboard. When I re-installed my
Gigabyte MB into the case, the computer booted without problem.
I then ran chkdsk /f as the MS "Getting Started" suggests and all
HD were clean. I have taken each of the Corsair memory sticks and
put them one at a time into the Gigabyte board and booted without
problem.

The Albatron setup will boot from the CD-ROM with a disk partition
program (Acronis) and this program correctly sees the hard drives.

Any suggestions as to likely problems or any other diagnostic test
that might clarify the problem? Any known problems with this setup?

Thanks.

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