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by yrzksh

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My machine is install with Win2K pro. Unfortunately the motherboard was spoil last 2 days ago. After replacing the motherboard (diff brand and model from original), Win2K Pro not able to boot up and stack in the blue screen with error message "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" at the initial stage.
Is there anyway to reconfigure the program without reinstalling the entire Win2000 again ?
Why NT4 can work fine by pluging into another motherboard but not Win2000 ?

Thank you very much to you guy/galsin advance for all the advise.

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by pikikoko

This has happened to me more often than I would like it to happen. I have w2k on my machine and I have upgraded my mother board to an intel board. My board is very sensative to the IDE cable. Make sure your master drive is connected to the last connector on the cable. also if the IDE cable is over 18" I get this message. Some mother boards do not like IDE cables over 18" long. I would remove everything from the IDE cable except the Master Hard Drive and start from there.
I always get this message until I reset the IDE cable.
Good Luck
Mike

by saihib

No IDE cable should ever be over 18" That's the max length according to IDE specs. Also, it makes absolutely no difference which connector on the cable your drives are hooked up to. What matters is how they're jumpered. The only exception to that isif you're running an archaic CS setup, which I doubt.

What you can try is booting from the Win2K CD and running the repair console.

by brettcard

The reason that it is giving you a stop 7b error message when booting is because all your hardware has changed and it is still trying to use the drivers from the old motherboard. What you need to do is....

1: boot from the Windows 2000 cd or 4 floppy disks
2: Press enter to install
3: press F8 to accept the licence agreement
4: At this point it should give you another option to Press R for repair or Esc for a clean install, Press R this will run a complete inplace upgrade of the operating system and will keep all your settings and files.

Note: If it does not give you the option to press R at that point then setup does not see the origional install and it can not be fixed, the only work arround for this would be to run a parrallel install (in a different Directory) and backup your data then format and run a clean install.

hope this helps

Brett

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