June 24, 200620 yr Hey, Well today I installed a new motherboard for my friend, and came across an incredibly annoying error, which I have encountered in the past. After installing a new motherboard, the computer would not boot up from the hard drive. It always gave a "hard disk failure" error! In the past while switch hard drives from my computer to my dads computer, I've found the same error, but never knew what the cause of it was. Supposedly the drive is not properly "configured" with the motherboard, but how do I do that? I just expected to install the motherboard and have everything work fine, but apparently not. What am I doing wrong if anything? I just install the motherboard and re connect everything...am I missing something here?! This can't be right... Help Please!! :x
June 24, 200620 yr Author Yep :x Nothings changed with the jumpers of course since the old motherboard...and the BIOS recognizes it as master.
June 24, 200620 yr You'll probably have to reformat considering Windows loads Specific harddrive drivers (To enable DMA, I guess) during the installation most likely. Just get a M$ disk somewhere..
June 24, 200620 yr Author No, that can't be right... Im sure a ton of people around here have built computers before, using an old hard drive or something. There has to be some sort of solution to this.... :-k
June 24, 200620 yr i had a simallar problem with my pc its cuz the mother board isnt compatible with that hard drive or windows cuz certain types of windows r compatble with only certain motherboards for sectruity purposes
June 25, 200620 yr Can you boot from CD? If you can, and the mobo recognizes the HDD, then pop in a Win XP disk (borrow from friend if you need to) and press R when it loads. This will bring you to the recovery console, which is similar to dos. Type your admin pass, then: "chkdsk /r" (without the quotes) This uses the checkdisk function and should repair all the errors. Let me know if you have any more issues! You act like the game community is like the stinking bowels of hell.... In all reality.. its much.. much... worse.
June 30, 200620 yr i had a simallar problem with my pc its cuz the mother board isnt compatible with that hard drive or windows cuz certain types of windows r compatble with only certain motherboards for sectruity purposes That is totally false. Certain "types" of Windows, namely the 32-bit ones, will run on virtually any x86 machine that is fast enough. And motherboards and hard disks usually play nice, it is very rare that a chipset is incompatible with a hard disk, and even then a firmware fix is usually released. Now, x86_64 WinXP Pro will only run on a motherboard with a 64-bit chip, but even then that's more processor-dependent, since sockets like LGA775 are both 32 and 64-bit processor-capable. handed me TWO tissues to clear up. I was like "i'm going to need a few more paper towels than that luv"
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