Strange Problem... BIOS, HDD, or GRUB?

From: Pandora Xero (26484imawseht_at_tsacmoc.ten)
Date: 07/16/05

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    Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 05:45:53 -0400

    good day sirs

    i have recently changed the motherboard and Processor on my secondary
    PC, and have noticed a problem wherein the Hard Drive will not boot
    (although it did on the previous motherboard and no changes were made to
    the boot sector or anything else on the drive)

    i normally use a copy of GRUB that i have burned to a CD in such cases,
    but that is giving me a "Disk Read Error" whenever i tell it to do
    ANYTHING with (hd0,0). i have a feeling this is NOT a BIOS problem,
    because i CAN access the drive and Read from/Write to the drive using
    Knoppix, but i may be wrong.

    worst case scenario, as far as i can tell, i'll just end up buying a new
    Motherboard. but I'd like some input on the issue, first

    System Specs
    Motherboard: AOpen AK77-600N
    CPU: AMD Sempron 2300+
    RAM: 1152 MB DDR266
    Northbridge: VIA Apollo KT600
    Southbridge: VIA VT8235
    Hard Drive: Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 6E040L0

    ...i believe thats all the information that would be relevant, reply if
    you need more info, or if you think you know what's wrong

    Thanks in Advance 

    -- 
--Xero
... the lone Linotaku
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