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skeeve666
March 15th, 2004, 04:48 PM
hi all first post here so here goes,

i have a epox mother board running a 1.4 duron processor, i wanted to upgrade to nforce 2 board with the same processor, and ddr ram instead of sdram, bought a asus x series nforce 2 board and 512mb of pc3200 ddr, removed my old board fitted the new one and just my graphics card (just wanted to test if it work b4 adding all the cards ect.), and booted the comp, everything went perfect until the windows splash screen apeared and it had 2 pips on the load meter, then i receaved a blue screen of death saying "unaccesible boot device" can anyone help me with this problem?

will it mean i have to clean install windows again?
degsy
March 15th, 2004, 04:50 PM
When replacing a motherboard it is recommended to perform a clean install of the OS.
skeeve666
March 15th, 2004, 05:01 PM
When replacing a motherboard it is recommended to perform a clean install of the OS.


bugger and thanks for the fast replie ;] i have to reformat my 40 gig drive then, i was hoping i did not have to as its currantly filled with 37gig of info and i have no chance of getting most of it off ;[

hmm think i will buy a new drive at months end, will save that problem... another 2 weeks with a nafo mb and memory ;[ hay well


but will it solve the problem?
degsy
March 15th, 2004, 05:29 PM
You can perform a Repair install of the OS.
It's one of the options when you run the W2K setup.
skeeve666
March 15th, 2004, 06:20 PM
You can perform a Repair install of the OS.
It's one of the options when you run the W2K setup.


thanks again, will tell u if it works, but i am still leaning towards getting a new drive, i am water cooled and swapping out the hold downs for the cpu block (they are 4 nuts and bolts that pass through the board and are superglued in place) is murder, and i only have one pc ;[
skeeve666
March 16th, 2004, 08:29 PM
thanks again, will tell u if it works, but i am still leaning towards getting a new drive, i am water cooled and swapping out the hold downs for the cpu block (they are 4 nuts and bolts that pass through the board and are superglued in place) is murder, and i only have one pc ;[


IT WORKED thanks all, running fine and smooth ;] got to love nforce 2 MB`s ;]

l8 all