So I just recently purchased the following:

Intel DP31PR Motherboard
1 GB 667Mhz RAM
XFX GeForce 8400GS PCIe Card
525-watt power supply with a new case

I've followed all the steps, attached all the cables, put in my old hard drive with Windows XP installed on it into the new pc, put in my CD/DVD Burner drive, my floppy, you know the works. And turned it on, originally nothing came on the screen and I had no beeps, so I rechecked everything and reseated the graphics card and I got stuff up on the screen. when it goes to load Windows I get a Blue Screen of Death immediately that has the following information....

STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF7A8F524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

I've checked the code and it says its a hard disk error.
I've seated the hard drive and the cd drive several times.
Same error.
If I unplug the harddrive and boot up the pc with just the floppy and cd drive and put my windows XP setup cd in, the pc boots up fine to the cd, but as soon as I add the hard drive, it won't boot off the CD and goes straight to loading the hard drive and gives me the blue screen error. There is no option to press any key to boot, it just goes straight to loading windows. I tried booting off floopy, won't load up floppy boot disk either. What could be the problem? I'm out of ideas here. I can't reformat the harddrive if I place it in my other pc either. Is the hard drive fried all of the sudden?

Hi,
Do you get the following message: " INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE"

What are the specs of the HDD and is it a new or old / reformatted drive ?

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you will need to set or selcect boot priority. If at boot up you get a full screen logo hit the tab key it will tell you on the first page if there is a boot select option either F10 F11 or F12 normally. This will allow you to boot off the cd. If not an option then hit delete key or F2 to enter bios. In advanced should be boot prioity set cd as first. Boot off cd. when offered recovery select r . try chkdsk c:/r fixboot and fixmbr commands failing that try a repair install of windows

No, I don't get that.
It's about a year old. It's a Maxtor 160GB hard drive.
The hard drive still works cause when plugged back into the old mother board, I can get onto windows fine. Just not with the new motherboard.

and to zinglebarb, I've tried forcing a boot. There's no options to at start, and I've set CD in boot priority and it still skips it. I finally got my old pc to reformat the drive so it's erased. I plugged it back into the new motherboard and when I start up and now get the following:

Name of the board/slash company and its info.
Then below that info is

Realtek RTL8111B/8111D Gigabit Ethernet
CNT MAC ADDR: a bunch of numbers I know its started with 00 19 D1 90 A1 B6
PXE-E53: No boot filename received

PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM

Boot failure
Press any key


EDIT: Just relooked in BIOS now. Under CD/DVD-Rom Drive Order it says No Optical Drive.
And under the boot options not I can boot from floppy, harddrive or Realtek setup or something of that name.
So it seems now my cd-rom drive is not being recognized.
I have only 1IDE port on my motherboard and 1 floppy port so I have to use 1 cable to connect both my harddrive and cdrom drive to the port on the motherboard. I have both set up as masters. Would they need to be setup as 1 master and 1 slave since they are on the same cable or no? What would cause my drive to not be seen? I've checked that the cables are correctly inserted and they are.

Yes you will need to set the hard drive up as master and the CD drive as slave.

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IAmLegendToo agrees: Very helpful

If possible you might want to get an IDE controller card (PCI)
Having your HD and CD drive on the same cable will slow your harddrive down so it recieves data at the same speed from both the CD Drive & HD
Should you do this put the CD drive connected the controller card, not the HD
Your PC will work with both drives on the same cable (HD=Master, CD=Slave...that's important) but it'd be faster if they weren't

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IAmLegendToo agrees: Very helpful

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If you do go down this root make sure the card is ATAPI compliant or you will not be able to run the optical drive off it meaning you will have to reinstall windows with a boot floppy with the drivers for the card. Easiest solution is scrap or sell the ide optical and buy a sata dvd rw

Got it up in running.
Thanks a bunch.
Switching the CD Drive to slave hit me suddenly and you guys confirmed that it needed to be done, so I did it and wah lah! it's up and running.
Really, thanks a bunch!

Congrats! Marked as Fixed

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Actually if Windows in installed first then you put the card in and connect the CD drive to it all will be good....

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