Rich Adams wrote:
> 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?

Make sure the virus warning in the bios is disabled. Also, have you
checked the boot order in the bios?
Another thing to try is swap the disks between IDE1 and IDE2. Are the
disks and cdrom(?) connected to the MB in the same order as you had them
  on the Gigabyte? It might make a difference

Marc




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