T60 boots to splash screen, safe mode scree, blue w/words

[burns334]

Morning folks.

My regular T60 (A unit) was randomly shutting down and I had redone the artic silver under the fan but no improvement so I decided to swap the hard drive with my more reliable T60 (B unit). The B unit now had the A's drive and booted fine, the B unit went to splash screen, safe mode screen and then the blue screen with white words about an unexpected exception, so I decided to get this another motherboard. I installed the replacement mobo and exactly the same thing. I checked the drive with the utility in the bios and it tested fine. I tried to reinstall the operating system and in cranks thru the R&R disk for a few minutes and then says there is an error it can't handle. Looking for ideas to try next, any help out there?

Thanks
burns

[ajkula66]

Presuming you're running XP.

Press F1 to enter BIOS on boot>Configuration>SATA> set it to "compatibility" press F10 to save and exit.

[burns334]

akj, where did you come up with that lol? Will try as soon as I get home, should I keep while doing this or recite any special phrase?

[burns334]

AJK, YOU DA MAN, worked perfect, thanks again. When you disconnect the CMOS battery does it default to the other mode? or how did it switch modes?