I have win 982nd edition and it has gone out of bios and wont start up

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before you think about updating the bios you should look to updating the drivers and check for malware and bugs

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have you done any-think in BIOS you my of disabled your drives in BIOS to get into BIOS start up your computer and keep pressing the [delete] button and have a look but be extremely carfull in bios you you could mess your computer conpletly if its not delete it could be f2 or even esc its different for a lot of computers

Try setting the jumper on the IDE hard drive to SL (ie slave).

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You have to go to BIOS setup, find HDD setup, and change the value to the other one (there are only two possibilities). That will fix your problem. The problem is caused by the fact that the lap top was designed for vista, not XP. and the lap top contains SATA HDD. when installing XP pre-installation doesn't have SATA drivers, so your OS can not see the HDD. Change it in BIOS, and you trouble is gone

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U need to edit the BIOS settings because SATA drivers is not included inside older Window XP CD.
Disable the SATA option under advance options in BIOS. That should work and it will also allow you to install/reinstall Win XP.

You need to provide some more information, it could be spyware as jerry suggests or it could be a bios or motherboard issue. It might be that some software that wont close or allow you to shut down. Look in win defender to see what software you can run without and disable it from start-up and then that can be ruled out.

Any chance its XP?

There is option in BIOS called something about automated SATA recognition or similar - disable it. It is under System configuration. And if you are putting new drive in then run full test from BIOS (Hard drive selftest - takes about 79min.)
I tried to reinstall Windows Media center on my HP dv6000 because my previous hdd crashed - When I put in installation cd - it said that it can't find hdd. I spent week to figuring that out. The thing is - as far as you haven't disabled that SATA thing in BIOS - PC doesn't recognize hdd. But only with Windows media center edition. With all other windows xp - there is no such problems. Strange.

Boot into the BIOS and look at the settings. Is the correct hard drive selected as the boot device? Are the IDE settings correct? Does it have an SATA or PATA hard drive?

When you change motherboards it's a good idea to write down the BIOS settings of the old board before you remove it. Probably too late for that now.