I'm having a problem with an old PC which I'm trying to move from XP to Win7. My troubleshooting has led to suspect the motherboard's IDE subsystem to be the problem. I'm wondering if there's anything I can do about it - and if not is it likely to develop into something worse?
Long story short - motherboard is an ASRock 775i945GZ with an Intel 2.4GHz dual core CPU, 2GB RAM, no HDD, IDE Pioneer DVD writer. Trying to boot into a GPARTED live CD fails after 9 dots of initrd.img. Using the same optical drive and same live CD in another machine (using the same 2GB memory sticks, with its HDD disconnected, but a single-core Pentium), the boot gets all the way to the UI. Removing the HDDs has been part of the troubleshooting process. It doesn't matter which Pioneer writer I use, or which of the three IDE cables I use, I get a successful boot from the single-core machine but not the dual core.
Pins all appear present and straight on the motherboard IDE connector.
Long story short - motherboard is an ASRock 775i945GZ with an Intel 2.4GHz dual core CPU, 2GB RAM, no HDD, IDE Pioneer DVD writer. Trying to boot into a GPARTED live CD fails after 9 dots of initrd.img. Using the same optical drive and same live CD in another machine (using the same 2GB memory sticks, with its HDD disconnected, but a single-core Pentium), the boot gets all the way to the UI. Removing the HDDs has been part of the troubleshooting process. It doesn't matter which Pioneer writer I use, or which of the three IDE cables I use, I get a successful boot from the single-core machine but not the dual core.
Pins all appear present and straight on the motherboard IDE connector.