Ntlworld said:
yellow again, or should i say blue,
excuse my slight delight, but i spent 8 hours building it on friday
night(win xp decided to take a holiday!) Anyway, i tried the whole swap
the mobo keep the os thing. it failed badly, my advice is don't put your
hopes on it.
Anyway, its good to be back in the mix.
If you're trying to swap motherboard in Xp and keep the hard drive (I may of
totally misunderstood this) try this:
"Changing motherboards without reinstalling Win XP
One tip I have come up with resolves Windows XP's inability to allow for a
motherboard change without reinstalling. There is a way around this.
Before you change the motherboard go into device manager and change the IDE
ATA/ATAPI controllers to "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller". You do
this by going to update driver and then selecting "Don't Search. I will
choose the driver to install." Then select the "Standard....Controller."
After you have changed the controller, shut down the PC and change the
motherboard. You should now be able to boot without the blue screen. Now
load the new motherboard drivers including the new IDE controller driver.
This is useful for people who use removable drives or people who need to
upgrade their motherboard.
-Wayne Chau"
RT
