[XFX] [SOLVED] Reboot and Select proper Boot device.

Sorry i don't know where this belongs.

I have looked throught a few threads here and non really help my situation.

First of all. I'm running windows XP.

I just purchased a new motherboard, the XFX nForce 750i SLI Extreme Motherboard

and i switched everything over to the new board, and when I went to start it up I get the following error that I need to select the proper boot device, and press enter to continue.

well afters a few hours of trying to figure out the problem. I hooked everything back up to my old motherboard and I kept getting the same errors.

I've made sure the SATA cords were plugged in all the way each time, and not loose.

I tried plugging in my parents HDD onto my computer to try and load windows off that, and I get the same error. I can't even put my HDD on my parents computer. Cause I just get the same error, which I think is weird, and leads me to believe that... well I don't know what to believe.

any help would be greatly appriciated!

Umm, have you installed Windows on the new motherboard yet? You cant just plug and play your windows install, it wont have the drivers it needs to talk to your motherboard.

"I did forget to mention though, that under boot management, it wont detect any of my 3 HDDs.. nor will my old MOBO. "

hmm.....I would definitely say this is a problem. I could see them not being displayed in the main menu with RAID enabled but they would still show under Hard Disk Drives or boot management as you call it.

Try booting up your system with ONLY the HD containing your OS (and hopefully its swap file).

That may be why your system booted up with f-i-l's HD. It had no choice.

I did a mobo transplant (EVGA to Gigabyte) a couple months ago using Vista, and got nowhere until I installed only one HD. After the system booted and installed whatever new stuff it needed, I shut it down and put the other HDs in. Been running great ever since. They *can* work fine.