Mainboard swap and XP

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Does anyone know how to correct this interesting problem I have? I tried upgrading the mainboard on my son`s computer. He has an ASUS P2B-F with a Pentium II 350 and tried to upgrade it to an ASUS P3V4X with a Pentium III 800 Mhz CPU. He had Windows XP home edition freshly loaded a couple weeks ago. Now here`s what`s happening and has me baffled. After the swap you turn the computer on, Windows comes up in safe mode and then shuts down by itself. Then it starts all over again. One would think it should work fine. It won`t stay on long enough for me to see what has to be done to rectify the situation. I checked all the cables and anything that would be obvious. Any ideas?

Pete
 
Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

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| Does anyone know how to correct this interesting problem I have? I tried upgrading the mainboard on my
son`s computer. He has an ASUS P2B-F with a Pentium II 350 and tried to upgrade it to an ASUS P3V4X with a
Pentium III 800 Mhz CPU. He had Windows XP home edition freshly loaded a couple weeks ago. Now here`s what`s
happening and has me baffled. After the swap you turn the computer on, Windows comes up in safe mode and then
shuts down by itself. Then it starts all over again. One would think it should work fine. It won`t stay on
long enough for me to see what has to be done to rectify the situation. I checked all the cables and anything
that would be obvious. Any ideas?
|
| Pete
 
Greetings --

Why would one think WinXP would work fine after such a drastic
change? What you're seeing is to be expected.

Normally, and assuming either a retail license or a generic
(non-branded) OEM license, unless the new motherboard is virtually
identical to the old one (same chipset, same IDE controllers, same
BIOS version, etc.), you'll need to perform a repair (a.k.a. in-place
upgrade) installation, at the very least:

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341

As always when undertaking such a significant change, back up any
important data before starting.


Bruce Chambers

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Avionics Pete said:
Does anyone know how to correct this interesting problem I have? I
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tried upgrading the mainboard on my son`s computer. He has an ASUS
P2B-F with a Pentium II 350 and tried to upgrade it to an ASUS P3V4X
with a Pentium III 800 Mhz CPU. He had Windows XP home edition
freshly loaded a couple weeks ago. Now here`s what`s happening and
has me baffled. After the swap you turn the computer on, Windows
comes up in safe mode and then shuts down by itself. Then it starts
all over again. One would think it should work fine. It won`t stay
on long enough for me to see what has to be done to rectify the
situation. I checked all the cables and anything that would be
obvious. Any ideas?
 
Does anyone know how to correct this interesting problem I have? I tried upgrading the mainboard on my son`s computer. He has an ASUS P2B-F with a Pentium II 350 and tried to upgrade it to an ASUS P3V4X with a Pentium III 800 Mhz CPU. He had Windows XP home edition freshly loaded a couple weeks ago. Now here`s what`s happening and has me baffled. After the swap you turn the computer on, Windows comes up in safe mode and then shuts down by itself. Then it starts all over again. One would think it should work fine. It won`t stay on long enough for me to see what has to be done to rectify the situation. I checked all the cables and anything that would be obvious. Any ideas?

Pete
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If you swapped your car engine for a radically different one, would
you expect the old ignition system to be able to operate it? The HD
tries to boot, but the completely different MB configuration confuses
the hell out of the OS so it shuts down and restarts trying to fix the
problem.

You'll have to do at LEAST a repair install of XP, if not a full
install.
 
You will need to do a repair install. Follow these steps:

Start the operating system from the CD-ROM,

When the computer starts from the CD, the system checks your hardware

and then prompts you to select one of the following options:

To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER.

To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R.

To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3.


Press ENTER.


Press F8 to accept the Licensing Agreement.

A box lists your current Windows XP installation, and then the system

prompts you to select one of the following options:

To repair the selected Windows XP installation, press R.

To continue installing a fresh copy of Windows XP without repairing, press
ESC.

Press R to start the automatic repair process. After repairing Windows XP,

you will probably need re-download all updates, starting with SP1. You can
go to the Windows site and download

the XP Rollup 1 package, which will make the reinstalling of the updates
much easier and quicker.

The repair installation should leave all your data and settings intact.


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upgrading the mainboard on my son`s computer. He has an ASUS P2B-F with a
Pentium II 350 and tried to upgrade it to an ASUS P3V4X with a Pentium III
800 Mhz CPU. He had Windows XP home edition freshly loaded a couple weeks
ago. Now here`s what`s happening and has me baffled. After the swap you
turn the computer on, Windows comes up in safe mode and then shuts down by
itself. Then it starts all over again. One would think it should work
fine. It won`t stay on long enough for me to see what has to be done to
rectify the situation. I checked all the cables and anything that would be
obvious. Any ideas?
 
Steve C. Ray said:
You will need to do a repair install. Follow these steps:

Start the operating system from the CD-ROM,

When the computer starts from the CD, the system checks your hardware
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I have the same problem, complicated by the fact that my XP drive was
partitioned with Partition Magic 7 (because WinXP Setup would not give
me option for multiple partitions when I first upgraded from ME). When
I move the drive to the new PC I have built and try a repair install
(using Michael Stevens guides) XP Setup only appears to see a single
40Gb C:, not 3 x 13.3GB logical partitions. Any way I can repair
instal and keep my 3 existing partitions? Thanks for any help.
 
Avionics said:
Does anyone know how to correct this interesting problem I have? I tried upgrading the mainboard on my son`s computer. He has an ASUS P2B-F with a Pentium II 350 and tried to upgrade it to an ASUS P3V4X with a Pentium III 800 Mhz CPU. He had Windows XP home edition freshly loaded a couple weeks ago. Now here`s what`s happening and has me baffled. After the swap you turn the computer on, Windows comes up in safe mode and then shuts down by itself. Then it starts all over again.
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After a main board swap you should do a repair reinstall so that the
system is correctly matched to the new hardware. Set the BIOS to boot
CD before Hard disk, then boot the XP CD, start Setup (do not take
'Repair' at this stage), then after the license agreement take 'Repair
Installation'. This will retain your existing software installations
and most settings. But Updates will have to be run again, especially
SP1;
It is important to activate the basic XP Firewall before you ever
connect to the net to get the patches, so as to be protected against
things like the BLAST worm.
 
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