Cany someone tell me why?

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With windows 9x you could move a hard drive from one computer to another and
not have any problems with the operating system finding the chipset and
loading the drivers.
With Windows NT, 2000 and XP you end up with a blue screen. Has anybody
tried this suggestion as does it work?
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.
 
XP introduces a new concept into the Windows system, Product Activation.
This is to somehow to restrict the use of Windows to "One Windows license to
One PC". Because of this, Windows XP bases the activation code on serveral
componets in the PC and the motherboard has the most important part of this
activation code. Windows XP appears to compare the activation on each
reboot. If it detects a different code, it then thinks that the user is
trying to set up a second PC with a copy of the activated XP.

Since the motherboard has the majority influence on the actviation code, the
replacing of the motherboard will always force the XP to stall. This can
also happen when you change other devices (drives, network adapters) but XP
is more tolerent.

To usually fix this by following the recommend method of doing a repair
reinstall.
 
Greetings --

WinXP, like Win2K before it, is not nearly as "promiscuous" as
Win9x when it comes to accepting any old hardware configuration you
throw at it. On installation it "tailors" itself to the specific
hardware found. This is one of the primary reasons WinXP, again like
Win2K before it, is so much more stable than is Win9x.


Bruce Chambers
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