Changed MB and CPU, now wont boot

[Trance_Allstar]

Recently changed MB and CPU, from Intel to AMD.

Now the comp wont boot.

I can tell the OS and all is still there, because the Comp lets me know that it hasnt found an OS if we switch to a non-boot HD.

Basically, im wondering if there are any HDD drivers on the OS that wont work now that we switched CPU and MB.

If now, any ideas as to what could be causing this (obviously there could be tons of things, but as for the Boot aspect.

Memorys and such are detected properly.

Help much apreciated

[Play_The_0dds]

if you have windows xp it wont boot after a motherboard swap, or not likely to. drop in your xp cd and to a repair install.

[Trance_Allstar]

hey!

thanx for the reply.

eventually, i just formated my OS partition and reinstalled XP.

I'll keep the repair option in mind tho till next time, if i change smtn and this happens again.

thanx again!

[Zitchta]

This could be a cause of many factors, as you stated.

Is there a certain time in the boot process it stops? Do you hear a single beep at all coming from the internal speaker when you turn the system on? If not, your system isn't even posting. That in itself is a project. However, if it posts fine and just doesn't boot off the given hard disk, your system may not be recognising the boot record correctly. Try recompiling the boot.ini file by booting from your windows CD, choosing the repair option, and once the command prompt comes up type "help". I think the command is "fixboot", but I'm not positive. Help will tell you. Do that and reboot, if it doesn't help, post more info here.

[Trance_Allstar]

Well, problem is already fixed with the reinstall of XP.
But you can never get enough input, so thanx for replying!

Im not high on DOS or prompt commands, so what u said would never have come to my mind...