Desperately need some help. Have tried to help a good friend out. Migrated his 5 year old motherboard to a Mid Tower TT case with a Evo Blue 550w Power supply. Motherboard has a SiS964 chipset. All worked fine in original microATX case but ran very very hot due to poor quality case, 300w PSU and crap siting of case itself (ie on floor under desk in office)
My solution was to migrate existing hardware into decent case with large fans and uprated PSU.
So, transferred everything without a hitch.
Except, on first power up, and all subsequent power ups, Windows XP Home tries to start then flashes a blue screen and returns to black Safe Mode screen with all Safe Mode and Last good and Start Normally options resulting in same result. XP tries to start, but returns to same black screen.
HDD is a SATA drive, seagate Baracuda 17AS model.
Chcked BIOS settings.
BIOS settings are, SATA controller enabled, SATA type set to IDE (asonly using one SATA drive)
Drive is detected and correctly identified as SATA0 - ST380817AS on Ch2 M.
Boot sequence = Auto detect Hard drive, boot 1 = HDD, Boot 2 = CD/DVD ROM (which reports and works fine as EIDE), Boot 3 = USB HDDD.
Can someone please help me sort this out.
I had created a back up of all all programmes and files on a WD 1Tb USB drive prior to migration.
All new fans, RAM, Motherboard and Case functions work fine.
upgraded RAM to 1Gb 400 DDR - which is correctly detected and reported through BIOS.
PC Health reports all ok for vloltages tempreature and CPU Fan Speed.
Got to get this fixed...quickly.
Have ordered a EIDE 320gb WD HDD just in case I hvae to go backwards.
Am well aware that the age of motherboard, launch of XP and SATA tech coincide as the worst possible combination. i.e. Gigabyte motherboard with SiS964 Chipset and SATA suffered issues, XP Home didn't have SATA drivers. etc.
But 5 years on didn't expect to have trouble unplugging SATA drive, moving it into a new case, repowering it, would lead to this.
