blue screen

hi having read these pages seems im not the only one to be having these problems!
having just brought a new mother board i transfered all my otehr bits over to it, started the system up and got the blue screen! so i reinstalled xp pro and it worked fine although i lost all my stuff due to not backing up, when i switched the system off to reinstall it in the case it would post then do nothing?
so i tried reinstalling xp again this time it says it cant find any hard disks, on looking i saw it wasnt being found in the bios, so i brougth a hitachi desk star sata drive hooked it up and installed windows on to it, lo and behold system cant find any hard disks, but i know damned well it could cos on startup it states that the sata device has been found?

so after all that the question is what can i do to solve this problem?
have swapped the dimms around and re routed power cables disconnected fans and cd drives as suggested in other threads to no avail just changes the error code
:confused: heee:confused: lpplease

You say sata hard disk you did press f6 and loaded the sata drivers from a floppy disk as xp has no drives for sata controllers?

no because none came with the drive, and none came with the new mother board either so where do i get them?

The manufacturers webpage for your motherboard should have drivers for the sata controller available for download.

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Originally Posted by Kaos_Engine

The manufacturers webpage for your motherboard should have drivers for the sata controller available for download.

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As above find the correct drivers put onto a floppy disc and press F6 to install them during the winxp installation.

ok sorry yeah found the drivers hidden in the depths of teh support cd, made the floppy disk but it keeps sayin that there is an error on the disk?do ya think this is just a dodgy floppy as its one i found at the bottom of a drawer i never use them, even had to buy a new floppy drive

Yeah most probably a dodgy floppy try again with a new one