New Mother Board Problems (Need some help)

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My mother board crashed last night and to make a long story short, I'm having some problems with Windows XP (I have a version before SP1) After I installed the new board, I tried to reboot windows and due to the differences in configurations etc. it would not boot. I then tried to "fix" XP by booting from the CD. After the the CD copies the appropiate files to the hard drive and reboots the computer it begins to run through the XP "set up". About half way through 'detecting devices', a window pops up and asks for a missing program (the .sys file for the new video card). About 15 seconds after locating the file on the included driver CD, windows XP then stops the set up and starts 'dumping' memory.

Does anyone know away around this issue without reformatting the hard drive... I also have Windows 2000 Server running on the same machine on a different hard drive and did not have any problems reconfiguring it. Windows XP is giving me fits... Just to let everone know, the mother board I was using before had the video card attached to the board and I have been through 2 new video boards trying to fix the problem...

Thanks in advance for the help,
Darren
 
Greetings --

Normally, and assuming either a retail license (OEM licenses are
not transferable), unless your motherboard is virtually identical
(same chipset, same IDE controllers, same BIOS version, etc.) to the
one on which the other WinXP installation was originally performed,
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.

This will probably also require re-activation. If it's been more
than 120 days since you last activated that specific Product Key,
you'll most likely be able to activate via the internet without
problem. If it's been less, you might have to make a 5 minute phone
call.


Bruce Chambers
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Read this all the way thru before starting.

You will need to do a repair install. Follow these steps:

Set your BIOS to have the CD drive as the first boot device.

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,
set your BIOS back to have the hard drive as the first boot device.

Have your Product Key at hand as you will probably have to re-activate.

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, but
you may want to backup critical data.

--
Steve C. Ray

Mr. Leghorn said:
My mother board crashed last night and to make a long story short, I'm
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having some problems with Windows XP (I have a version before SP1) After I
installed the new board, I tried to reboot windows and due to the
differences in configurations etc. it would not boot. I then tried to "fix"
XP by booting from the CD. After the the CD copies the appropiate files to
the hard drive and reboots the computer it begins to run through the XP "set
up". About half way through 'detecting devices', a window pops up and asks
for a missing program (the .sys file for the new video card). About 15
seconds after locating the file on the included driver CD, windows XP then
stops the set up and starts 'dumping' memory.
Does anyone know away around this issue without reformatting the hard
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drive... I also have Windows 2000 Server running on the same machine on a
different hard drive and did not have any problems reconfiguring it.
Windows XP is giving me fits... Just to let everone know, the mother board I
was using before had the video card attached to the board and I have been
through 2 new video boards trying to fix the problem...
 
Thanks for the help guys, but I've tried to do a "repair" install and I got the same result as before. I finally gave up last night... I backed up all of my important information to my other hard drive then did a "fresh install" over the old XP I was running... Luckily, I had originally partitioned 2 spots on my hard drive when I first installed XP. One partition for XP and my programs, and the other for a place to save documents I had created. By doing this I saved myself a lot of head aches when I did the install last night

Thanks again
Darren
 
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