Glitch w/newly installed SATA HD

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AverageJoe

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Hi,
This is pretty complicated. My old system description is:
eMachines model T6524 (about 4yrs old from Best Buy)
AMD Athlon™ 64 3500+ Processor
Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
ATI RS482, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon™® Xpress 200 (PCI-Express)

The old hard drive went bad. It was a 200GB IDE drive. I replaced it with a new SAMSUNG HD502HI 500GB SATA hard drive. The motherboard has 4 SATA inputs on it. So I used a SATA cable and connected the new HD to the first SATA input on the motherboard. Connected power cable. Ran restore CD since OS was lost on the old hard drive. Everything seemed to install. But when it finished and restarted, the PC never really seemed to "find" the hard drive or the OS. However, in BIOS the new hard drive does show up, and even shows the brand and size. So the PC seems to "see" the hard drive, but I just can seem to get the OS (Windows XP Media Center) to ever boot. The PC just keeps restarting and restarting over and over...

Please HELP!

Thanks!
 
What happens after you run the recovery cd and the machine reboots? Do you get any error messages or anything on the screen? Do you see the windows XP splash screen right after post?
 
I don't get any error messages once it reboots. But the Windows XP splash screen does come up. Right after that splash screen, the PC reboots every single time.
 
I would try the following:

Try switching Serial ATA ports.
If that doesn't work try getting a new Serial ATA cable for your hard drive.
If that doesn't work try reloading Windows XP on to this new hard drive.
 
I have to wonder if it's failing because you used a restore disc to reinstall the OS. So the computer is loading a driver for an IDE drive when you have a SATA drive. You can use the UBCD4Win to set the HDD controller to a generic one so Windows will install the proper one when you boot.
 
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