Building new computer

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Silly little ****wit that couldnt even bullshit its way out of a wet paper
bag, or even manage to work out how to quote properly either.
 
Nigel Brooks said:
I'm really not sure what you are speaking about because I'm using XP-Sp2
already on the old computer (the 2.4 pentium IV)

Everything works just fine - I'm simply building a new computer with new
motherboard to support the brand new Intel processor which just came out
recently, and adding a new graphics card, and a new hard drive.

It seems to me that the only thing the os needs to do is to recognize all
of the new hardware, and I don't see why the applications won't work.
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Because Rod and Johns are both clueless?

SteveH
 
Everybody seems to have missed the fact that he wants to use a Bios locked
Dell cd to do this . Good luck with that .
 
For once, I agree with Johns. What is the point of putting together a high
spec PC of that sort and then crippling it by copying over the old
registry etc.
While you can indeed probably get it working with a repair install, it
WILL NOT work as well as a clean install.
While the o/p may have 'horsepower to burn', why waste any of that
horsepower with a bodge-up?

SteveH
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If you take my system for example, it takes literally days to reinstall my
apps and get everything set up correctly. I have never had any problems
doing a repair install over several builds with different processors, MBs,
video cards etc....... XP is especially good at keeping my network settings
and everything else intact. I keep good backups for piece of mind, but have
never needed them. A good registry cleaner will get rid of about all the
unnecesary garbage left behind and takes only a few seconds. I have to go
with Rod on this one.

Ed
 
Ok now you're getting me really confused here.

A Bios locked Dell CD?

I have a Dell, bought some time ago with Win ME installed. I've since
upgraded to WINXP, upgraded the processor from 1.4 to 2.4 with a power leap
thingie. I also changed out the original boot drive to a 200 gig Maxtor.

I'm now building the new one having ordered everything from Tiger Direct -
should be arriving next week.

All I'm trying to do is to save myself the time and trouble of reinstalling
all of the applications on the new system which will be using a brand new
Sata drive as the boot.

I'll not be using any of the Dell CD's to install the os because I upgraded
the OS to XP using a commercially available upgrade.
 
Ed Medlin said:
If you take my system for example, it takes literally days to reinstall my
apps and get everything set up correctly. I have never had any problems
doing a repair install over several builds with different processors, MBs,
video cards etc....... XP is especially good at keeping my network
settings and everything else intact. I keep good backups for piece of
mind, but have never needed them. A good registry cleaner will get rid of
about all the unnecesary garbage left behind and takes only a few seconds.
I have to go with Rod on this one.

Ed
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I think I'm going to go with his take on it too.

What I probably will do however is to buy a cheap sata card for my old
system, put the sata drive on that and then do a clone of my old drive to
the new sata.

Put the new system together, assuming that the new sata clone has the
appropriate drivers to boot things up - do the repair and hope for the best.

At the very worst - I'm gonna be doing a new install and then taking a
number of days to get everything back the way I want it - at the best - it
might work.

I'm getting all the parts from Tiger Direct next week so I'll report back if
anyone is interested.
 
Nigel Brooks said:
All I'm trying to do is to save myself the time and trouble of
reinstalling all of the applications on the new system which will
be using a brand new Sata drive as the boot.
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Of course you are. Everybody wants to save time and trouble. If you
want to spend better time researching the issue, you can look in
the USENET archive and/or ask in a Windows discussion group.
 
Nigel Brooks said:
I think I'm going to go with his take on it too.

What I probably will do however is to buy a cheap sata card for my old
system, put the sata drive on that and then do a clone of my old
drive to the new sata.

Put the new system together, assuming that the new sata clone has the
appropriate drivers to boot things up - do the repair and hope for
the best.
At the very worst - I'm gonna be doing a new install and then taking
a number of days to get everything back the way I want it - at the
best - it might work.

I'm getting all the parts from Tiger Direct next week so I'll report
back if anyone is interested.
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Yes please, I have never seen the repair install not work fine with XP,
I've only ever seen proclamations that it wont work like from SteveH.
 
Nigel Brooks said:
I think I'm going to go with his take on it too.

What I probably will do however is to buy a cheap sata card for my old
system, put the sata drive on that and then do a clone of my old drive to
the new sata.

Put the new system together, assuming that the new sata clone has the
appropriate drivers to boot things up - do the repair and hope for the
best.

At the very worst - I'm gonna be doing a new install and then taking a
number of days to get everything back the way I want it - at the best - it
might work.

I'm getting all the parts from Tiger Direct next week so I'll report back
if anyone is interested.
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I received all the stuff from Tiger Direct on Oct 4
ASUS P5N32-SLI-SE-Deluxe
Intell Core DUO 2.4
2 sticks of OCZ Gold 800 mhz 1 Gig Ram
EVGA 7950
Seagate 300 SATA
Maxtor 300 SATA
Aspire Navigator Case with 500watt PS

First - I purchased a cheap $29 SATA board and installed in my Dell. Then
used Acronis True Image to crate a backup of my C drive to the Maxtor SATA.

After installing all of the hardware in the new case my problems began. The
new board refused to boot. I should have gone to the ASUS discussion boards
prior to installation because on researching the board I discovered that in
spite of the fact it is advertised as being ok with 800 mghz ram - there
appears to be a problem with OCZ. The boards suggested getting a sick of
667 mhz to boot the board, then set the ram to operate at 1.8 volts at 667.
So thats what I did and the board booted up with no problem.

I used the Acronis recovery disk to transfer the backup from the Maxtor SATA
to the Seagate C drive, and then used the XP disk to perform a repair.

Everything went well, and I'm now using the new computer to file this
report.

It took some time fooling around - but I simply did not have all of the
program disks, or downloaded applications that I've accumulated over the
past few years.
 
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