Thank you all for your replies back..

I am back overseas deployed for the next 8 months.  The good news was I
successfully got to complete the system with my son before I left and built
a wireless network for 3 desktops and a older laptop to be connected thru
the internet.  The problem was XP does not allow you to switch hard drives
to different pc systems anymore.  So I end up purchasing a new hard drive
and starting over by using the XP home edition code from my wife's desktop
system to activate the one on my son's via internet.  Everything went fine!
Since I didn't use the hard drive and I kept the old system for my younger 2
daughters to use.  I did all this 12 hours before catching my plane back to
Turkey.

>From: Lionel Daddy <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [PCBUILD] Old 15GB Hard drive won't boot on new Motherboard
>Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:56:26 +0000
>
>I just bought a new motherboard/CPU chip set and case for my son for his
>birthday to teach him how to build a computer.  We bought a PCCHIPS M825G;
>Socket 462 uATX with VIA KM 266 PRO/8235 CPU CHIP to upgrade from a 4-yr
>old
>Compaq Presario 5BW120 Intel Celeron 600 Mhz System.  We kept the Yamaha
>CD-RW and the original 15 GB IDE HD Quantum Fireball Lct 15  loaded with
>Ugraded Win XP OS.  When we assembled the new system together, we
>experience
>a bad power switch off the case and we replaced that.  Now that we have
>power, I configured the BIOS to auto detect the drives successfully, but no
>matter what the old drive would not boot, I just get a " - " waiting  on
>the
>screen after the boot up process finishes.  I have removed all other dirves
>and just tried to boot the drive itself as well as disbled the Flopply
>controller because I don't want to install a floppy.  I have also switched
>the old drive back to the old system to see if it is the HD, but it is not,
>it still worked fine.  Is there a possible problem with this old HD working
>on this new motherboard or could we have a bad mother board?  Please help
>me
>as soon as you can!  My problem now is I am active military remotely
>station
>in Turkey and I leave in 24 hours.  My family is here in Alaska while I am
>deployed overseas.  My goal is to fixed this before I leave so my son can
>have a working PC.  Thanks for any help you can provide and God Bless you
>all..
>
>_________________________________________________________________
>Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE!
>http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
>
>                  Visit our website regularly for FAQs,
>               articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more
>                          http://freepctech.com

_________________________________________________________________
Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE!
hthttp://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

           The NOSPIN Group is now accepting donations to help
          defer the costs of providing PCBUILD and our website.
           Visit http://freepctech.com to donate using PAYPAL