HEllo I am having a very nasty problem with my motherboard/WinXP. I just bought a new computer today, K7S5A Pro motherboard, AMD Athlon XP 2000+, and 256mb DDR RAM. I am using two drives that i had on my previous computer. I installed everything (physically) to a tee. One of my hard drives has Windows xP Pro edition on it. The other drive has back-up files. When i started to go to windows for the first time, i get this blue screen of error before the windows loading screen. IT sais that there is a problem with my hard-drives, that they are corrupt or mis-configured. I have both my hard-drives professionally installed and my BIOS sees both my HArd Drives.. CAn someone please help me out here?

Call me old-fashioned, but I like to install an operating system onto the computer I want it to operate. If you just switched an OS install from one computer to another, you should clean-install the OS; faulting that, at least do a repair installation of XP.

I had exactly the same result when changing from the K7S5A to a Gigabyte board but this is not specifically a K7S5A problem. Like tropic I would normally prefer to do a clean install under such circumstances but sometimes life is too short to spend days setting things up as I like them so I thought I'd try it just to see what happened. Naturally I had backed up all my vital data/files etc BEFORE changing MOBO's. I'm sure you'll have done the same ! I managed to sort it out relatively quickly though by going throught the following steps but of course there's no guarantee the this will work for you. 1. Physically removed all unessential hardware so basically left with only graphics card, HD, floppy and CD-Rom. 2. Did "over the top" reinstall of XP. 3. Started in Safe mode and removed any remaining instances of removed devices in Device Manager. 4. Did a registry clean with RegCleaner from www.jv16.org. 5. Refitted extra cards one by one installing drivers etc. each time. After this all was OK and my PC with new MOBO was working exactly as before. Finally remember that even if you do succeed in the above XP will almost certainly require reactivation with Microsoft. Good luck and let us know how you get on!