My wife's mother board failed.
I took both her hard drives out and
installed them in another computer I had.

It starts to boot gets well past the bios but it hangs up
were it says on the screen "Starting Windows" above a wide
white line.

Does Windows 2000 only work on the mother board it
was installed on?

--  Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

Buy your wife a new Mac. She will show her appreciation in ways you
have not even dared to dream about.     Jerry


I don't think so Jerry :)

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

I agree 110% with Jerry. Get a Mac. She'll appreciate it, (but maybe
you will not want to hear her asking why didn't you do it before).

Alfonso

I already run Linux. I don't need a Mac to run Linux :)
I tried to get her to run Linux but all her friends
were running Windows.

Paul Lamar

What is plan B?

Doc Custer
Retired software engineer and sometime Audiologist
Building RV9-A. Fuselage

Set the C drive as a slave. Read it with a working computer
and transfer data to a USB 3.5 gig back up drive.

Install new mother board and put the old C drive in the
new mother board. Install new Windows XP OS. Copy the
old C drive data files from the USB back up drive to a
new directory called Old-C-Drive-Data.
Re install all old software from orginal Cd's.
Load old data as necessary. Mostly address books, book marks
and jpgs and email messages.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

Yup. Pretty much what I'd do. You might try the boot into safe mode
and delete all the devices except the disks as someone earlier
recommended- not much to loose.  (IDE disks are pretty much IDE disks.
The IDE controller pretty much hides the #cylinders, #heads and # of
tracks from the OS: they lie, unless you ask for the physical
parameters.) Then reboot in normal mode. With luck, the new
motherboard will require drivers that Windows has available. That way
you probably won't have to move everything.
Doc Custer
Retired software engineer and sometime Audiologist
Building RV9-A. Fuselage


OK Doc I am also thinking hard drives are so cheap
now a days I might get a 300 gig D drive and use the USB
back up drive to transfer all Robin's stuff over to the 300
gig D: drive and let Robin worry about it :) I have this Space
shuttle lying around with a 70 gig hard drive and Windows
XP installed on it. I'll just install the 300 gig D: drive on that
one and give it to Robin. I like those little XPC Space
Shuttles. I have another later one with Linux on it and the sodium
heat pipe cooling. Neat! It is super quiet and I use it for the
newsletter stuff. Tiny too about 8" by  8" by 10 inches.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

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