New MB/CPU with Old HD

soonersox · Apr 20, 2013

I decided to upgrade my oldest computer that had an AMD athlon 64 processor running windows 7. I switched to Intel with an i5-3570 in an Asus P8Z77-V. I wanted to try to get by without formatting the HD so I thought I could boot with the Windows 7 disc then reinstall windows on top of the existing installation.

My problem is that everytime I boot from the CD and it gathers it's info I get a windows boot manager error. The details are "an unexpected I/O error has occured." status: 0xc00000e9.

I tried different dvd drives, different sata cables, different sata ports. I pulled the HD and connected it to another computer so I could see if the files were accessible and they were. I thought the motherboard was bad so I replaced it and I am still having the same problem with the same error.

Can anyone tell me what they think the problem is?

ihsaan96 · Apr 20, 2013

You should of already known the problem...Your using a HDD with AMD Motherboard drivers installed and trying to use Intel? Not clever haha , wipe the drive and install fresh intel drivers and it'll defo work trust me. I did this before when I was young

SchizTech · Apr 20, 2013

You've ruled out most of the hardware except the HDD itself. Try this diagnostic utility (burn to disk and boot)

http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/item/seatools-dos-master/

It works on all HDD, not only Seagate

swifty_morgan · Apr 20, 2013

sees the motherboard. too much of a change. reformat. hope you backed up your data before messing with stuff.......... or you can leave that drive alone and reformat a new one...... and maybe you can grab stuff off the old one.

ingtar33 · Apr 20, 2013

to offer a contrary opinion, it could be your ram. you check that yet? its not unheard of for ram to come bad straight from the factory... and if your old ram was also broke... tada! same issue.

just something other then saying "it's the hard-drive". that said, test the hard-drive.

SchizTech · Apr 20, 2013

ingtar33 :

Also possible. To test,

http://www.memtest86.com/download.htm

swifty_morgan · Apr 20, 2013

okay, let's ay ram. could be the wrong ram for the board. Intel does have problems running 1.65 ram......... especially on the newer processors........... but it's not the ram.

it is, IMO, the HD needing a reformat. and a touch of what Microsoft does to ensure that if you make drastic hardware changes the operating system won't work.

soonersox · Apr 20, 2013

ihsaan96 :

While I think this is quite possible, the part that I have trouble with is that I am trying to boot from the windows disc and not the hard drive. Would the AMD boot drivers on the hard drive have any effect on successfully getting to the boot menu so that I could do a repair install? For that matter I can't even format the HDD without getting to the boot menu. If someone confirms this would be the case I don't have an issue with it I just want to make sure that I communicated my problem accurately.

SchizTech · Apr 20, 2013

soonersox :

It sounds like you're getting this error early in Windows setup, so the AMD drivers have nothing to do with anything. You're describing a problem happening when the Windows installer is loading files. The system isn't reading any AMD drivers at this point.

Run the two diagnostic scans (the HDD software and the RAM software) and look for errors in either.

swifty_morgan · Apr 20, 2013

try hooking the drive to a SATAII port instead of a SATAIII. If that doesn't help, put a jumper on the HD to run at 1.5.

and if you want to boot to the disc, you need to make the first boot device the cd/dvd.

you should try an abuntu or aspire, etc. os to boot.

ingtar33 · Apr 20, 2013

this problem happened to me 2 times before. it was bad ram both times. I could be a bad HD as well... but in my experience... it was bad ram

ihsaan96 · Apr 21, 2013

Like I said , it's the HDD most likely. Format the hard-drive and have a clean install of Windows. Having old motherboard drivers will stop windows from loading even before the bios boot

ingtar33 · Apr 21, 2013

ihsaan96 :

windows doesn't load drivers prior to bios POST. Nor does it load your current drivers when loading from a DVD for a clean install. Learn how windows works prior to giving advice on how to fix it. it does not comunicate with prior installs of windows in search of drivers.

A reformat won't work if the hard-drive is malfunctioning, and from his symptoms i would be willing to bet it's a dying hd or dying ram or temps. Though i need to repeat, these symptoms are identical to 3 different problems i've had with pcs. three times it was the ram, once it was temps, and one time it was the hard drive.

not once did reformating fix the problem.

ihsaan96 · Apr 21, 2013

ingtar33 :

ihsaan96 :

windows doesn't load drivers prior to bios POST. Nor does it load your current drivers when loading from a DVD for a clean install. Learn how windows works prior to giving advice on how to fix it. it does not comunicate with prior installs of windows in search of drivers.

A reformat won't work if the hard-drive is malfunctioning, and from his symptoms i would be willing to bet it's a dying hd or dying ram or temps. Though i need to repeat, these symptoms are identical to 3 different problems i've had with pcs. three times it was the ram, once it was temps, and one time it was the hard drive.

not once did reformating fix the problem.

Well from my experience , I tried using a HDD with Intel drivers installed and I couldn't boot to the bios etc it just showed a string of errors and turned off.

ihsaan96 · Apr 21, 2013

ingtar33 :

Well from my experience , I tried using a HDD with Intel drivers installed and I couldn't boot to the bios etc it just showed a string of errors and turned off. And temperatures isn't a problem , if you realised when starting a PC fresh when booting the temperatures wont be hitting critical that fast...the temperature would be a factor AFTER the system is on for a bit.

swifty_morgan · Apr 21, 2013

have to wonder if anything is being tried?

soonersox · Apr 21, 2013

I solved the problem and it was likely the most simple issue it could have been. The Windows disc was bad. I decided to test the disc on a working computer and it had the same problem when it tried to load the boot menu. I borrowed a different disc and it worked like a charm.

ihsaan96 · Apr 21, 2013

soonersox :

Ahhh I was close enough

ingtar33 · Apr 21, 2013

cool deal. glad to hear it!

I love hearing a problem was solved in as simple a way as possible. it's always the little things 9 times out of 10. good catch!

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