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.

I use USB external hard drive(s) to archive all the stuff I want to
keep. It is much faster than tape and once it is unplugged, is immune
to ALL malware and system crashes. I use a second, off-line system to
copy the archive disk to a second USB external disk for use in case of
a disk crash on the original about twice a year - after all the data
is already on two separate disks. This may seem anal, but has saved
irreplaceable data several times. As you point out these disks are
cheap enough to make this attractive. Actually, disks are cheaper than
fast tape drives nowadays and MUCH faster.

I used to get plain Jane disks from Sam's Club, but they have stopped
carrying them. I buy the external housing/USB separately and install
the plane Jane disk in it. Much less expensive than buying an off the
shelf disk in a housing. Check out  http://www.TigerDirect.com  for
one source of inexpensive computer parts (that Scottish blood again!).

I used to keep up with the computer market, but nowadays I choose to
spend my time on airplanes. So I am not familiar with the SPX Space
Shuttle. Is this a laptop? What is the source? My HP laptop just died,
so I am looking.

Still looking for a projector.

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

http://global.shuttle.com/Product/Barebone/SN95G5.asp

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

Anybody running Windows should check out this web site.

http://www.licenturion.com

I am sticking to Linux :)