Motherboard Upgrade and XP

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Maxwell

Greetings!

I just upgraded the motherboard and CPU from a 370-pin 1.1 ghz Celeron to a
478-pin 2.4ghz Celeron. What do I need to do to get my currently installed
Windows XP to load up with this new set-up? I don't want to completely wipe
my hard-drive and start from scratch, 'cause I don't want to reload all the
software.

Any help?

Thanks much!
Max.
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Maxwell wrote:

" What do I need to do to get my currently installed Windows XP to load
up with this new set-up? I don't want to completely wipe my hard-drive
and start from scratch, 'cause I don't want to reload all the software. "


You need to go straight into the BIOS when you turn the system on.
Don't boot into Windows. Set the boot order to start up from the
CD-ROM, insert your Windows XP CD, save the BIOS and restart. You then
need to do a repair installation from the XP CD.
 
WHENEVER you change the motherboard in a computer using XP as the OS, then
you MUST reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise
you can look forward to ongoing nasty Registry errors and data corruption.
 
Didn't work for me.
I had to reformat the system partition and reinstalling from scratch.
If you affraid to loose your data you can make a new install of the system
in a different folder.
New system install is not too bad since you will clean all the left overs
after uninstalled aplications.


Tal
 
DaveW said:
WHENEVER you change the motherboard in a computer using XP as the OS, then
you MUST reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise
you can look forward to ongoing nasty Registry errors and data corruption.
Click to expand...
....

If the problem is "ongoing nasty Registry errors", then reformatting the
harddrive is
a little extreme. Just wipe out the registry. One way would be to delete
the system
directories and then re-install windows. Yes, you will have re-install your
programs,
but the data file from all the programs will have been preserved. (Assuming
they
aren't in a system directory.)


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Echoing the others who know, you just have to bite the reinstall bullet I'm
afraid.

Simply put, everything else is akin to using a bandaid on a sucking chest
wound!.

XP simply ain't that smart ....perhaps one day in the future?

Changing over the mobo still demands a mandatory re-format & OS reinstall if
you want OS _reliability_ & platform _stability_.
 
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