I have found similar problems when swapping MBs on XP systems, and as XP is
based on 2000, the solution may be the same.

I don't even try to boot up after a MB upgrade.  I boot to the XP disk, and
then do a repair installation at the point where it detects the old install.
This lets it redetect all the hardware ( yours is probably  trying to load
using bad drivers for the current setup)  and so far I've had 100% success.
If the 2000 disk will boot and allow a repair installation ( not the same as
repair from recovery console) or an "upgrade" installation, I think you'll
be OK.

Good Luck,
                   Phill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Adams" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 11:28 PM
Subject: 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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