Hi. I was here a few weeks back. My computer died. I thought it was the mobo. Ordered a new one and damaged my cpu removing it from the old mobo (thanks thermal paste!). Got my new mobo and chip installed. Now here is my problem.

When the machine boots up. I see it recognize my sata hard drive. When windows starts to load, it reboots. I try to run powermax from a floppy drive to check my harddrive, but the program does not find my harddrive. I attempted to repair windows, but get a message that it cannot find my harddrive. I tried to REINSTALL windows, but got a message saying it could not find my harddrive. I go into bios and I see that it recognizes my harddrive. I just don't know. I would like to save all the stuff on my harddrive too. So if someone has a solution, I would appreciate it. Here are the specs on my SYSTEM now.

AMD 64 Athlon 3000
ASUS K8U-X mobo
1 gig Corsair PC 3200
150 Gig Maxtor 7200 RPM Sata Harddrive
Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro with 256 mb
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card.

thanks for the help.It sounds like the hard drive has issues.

I would try to boot with a Linux Live CD and see if it is recognized and the data retrievable. Alternatively you could slave it to a working machine to salvage files. Both of these depend on it actually being able to function. Could this be what killed the thing in the first place?The SATA drivers need to be installed very early in the XP INSTALL process...watch for the prompt and hit F6 at the appropiate time.I think it is a mobo issue. I found a page in the saying that the sata socket is not hot and you have to run Windows xp service pack 1 at least. Well, how do you put it on their? Its kinda like a chicken or the egg senerio. I went to ASUS and left a note for technical support. I'm hoping there might be a bios update or somthing. Still OPEN for suggestions.

Thanks
Well, you didn't mention installing the RAID drivers, so maybe that is the problem. Windows XP does not recognize the SATA technology, so this must be done. I forget how to create the driver boot disk on the computer you are building, but you can make it on another working computer. Take your ASUS driver cd to another computer and create the SiS RAID Driver Disk on a floppy. Once you have done that, go back to the one you are building, begin to install XP, and when it asks if you would like to install any third party RAID drivers, hit F6. Follow the steps and there you go.

Good luck!
Hoop2077