Sounds to me like your trying to just pop your hard drives in without
reinstalling !?? I that is the case I don't wonder that it won't start
because your old system most likely has difernt hard drive controllers than
your new system.

 You could try to reinstall on top of your old system or, put the hard
drives video and one stick ram back into the old system and remove them with
the device manager then put it all back into the new system..    Probally a
lot easyer to install over the old install and then go into the device
manager and remove the things that you don't have.

Let us know how things turned out
Paul Ryan
Germany
> Date:    Mon, 19 Apr 2004 22:28:03 -0500
> From:    Rich Adams <[log in to unmask]>
> 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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