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Mar 10, 2011
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Hard Drive and MOBO
by: Peter

Are the hard drive and MOBO incompatible?

I'm almost in your shoes Nate. Hopefully my posting can give you some insight as well.

I am upgrading my brothers old ATA system which has an AYA HD and CD-RW/DVD player. The new is an AMD AM3 Phenom X4, 4GBDDR3 1333 memory, MSI 880GM-E43 mobo, 550W PS.

After installing the new parts, I booted and received one beep and then the screen comes up stating there was a hardware change, reboot or go to Safe Mode, Last Known...,Restart, Load Windows normally. After a restart, same thing.

I sent back the mobo after talking with MSI and put the new one in, same thing. Replaced memory, same thing. Disconnected everything but CPU, RAM, PS, and HD - same thing. Put old PC back together, and it boots. I also think it could be the CPU but that is pretty rare. I'm stuck myself.

I think the HD may not be working right with the hardware change of the mobo. I connected a new SATA to the new mobo with no OS and it said load a bootable drive so that's good. Hope this helps a bit with troubleshooting. I'm almost ready to flip

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