Replace MB & Processor

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Hertz_Donut said:
Your only option is wait until Vista ships. There is no way to replace the
motherboard and the processor and *NOT* have to do a clean install.
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That is totally wrong.

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Irv said:
I am getting ready to replace my MB and Processor. I have read the article
from MS ID#824125.
What I am trying to do is repalce these items and not touch the hard drive.
I do not want to reinstall WinXP SP2 as I want to wait until Vista is
released and then do a complete reinstall. Has anyone used this procedure
with any luck? Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks
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Bruce Chambers and Jim Macklin have given you the correct answers.

The possible clanger would be if your installed Windows XP is a "BIOS
Locked" OEM version.

To determine if your installed Windows XP is an OEM version open
Control Panel - System - General and look at the 25 character product
ID value reported on the last line of the "Licensed to:" section. If
the second segment of the Product ID reads OEM then your installed
Windows XP is an OEM version.

To determine if your installed OEM version of Windows XP is BIOS
Locked look on the Start Menu in the Accessories - System Tools
section for an "Activate Windows" item. If there is no "Activate
Windows" entry then your installed OEM version of Windows XP is BIOS
Locked and you cannot replace the motherboard unless the new board is
also from the same OEM as the original computer.

Good luck



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It will not "refuse to boot until it is reinstalled", it may require
reactivation if it gets to that point, but a reinstall is NOT required.
 
Hertz_Donut said:
Feeling a bit snippy?

Generally, a new MB and a new processor don't do well with in-place
re-install...I have never seen one that went well, and didn't leave a ton
of useless baggage behind in the install. It is better, when *both* the
MB and processor are being replaced, to do a clean install. Less
headaches in the long run.

Had it been one *OR* the other, and in-place is usually okay.

Bobby
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That's the only vestige of truth I've read from either camps regarding a new
mobo AND cpu install so far. Kinda like politics. Opposing parties not
recognizing the truth in either camp. I'm outta here.
 
Irv said:
My question would be what are the chances of success?
I am doing an upgrade to me system with an upgraded MB and Dual COre
processor. It is a retail version of winxp sp2
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If you follow the instructions provided, your chances of success are
excellent. Only in very rare cases will a complete, clean installation
be necessary.


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Hertz_Donut said:
Feeling a bit snippy?
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Not at all. Just calling a spade a spade.

Generally, a new MB and a new processor don't do well with in-place
re-install...
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That's completely false. Only very, very rarely will there be a
problem. (Based on years of supporting hundreds of different makes and
model computers, and having performed countless motherboard changes.)

I have never seen one that went well, and didn't leave a ton of
useless baggage behind in the install.
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Then you've either performed very few such operations, and were working
with a badly corrupted original installation.



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Jim said:
How was my answer Bruce.
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Your approach (removing "add-in cards" and not reinstalling them until
after the repair) seems a bit over-cautious to me, as well as being a
bit more labor intensive than necessary. Remember, the device drivers
for those "add-ins" are already installed; doing it your way, the OS
repair might remove or disable those drivers, requiring their
reinstallation.

Otherwise, though, your advice is spot on.

Who are these trolls who lie to
people.
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Must be newbies of some sort; no experienced professional would spout
their tripe.


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That's completely false. Only very, very rarely will there be a problem.
(Based on years of supporting hundreds of different makes and model
computers, and having performed countless motherboard changes.)
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I've tried this maybe five or six times, and it only worked when the new
mobo had the same chipset. In the cases where it didn't work, the boot
failure was a black screen, then a blue screen, then a reboot. I also did it
several times with Win 2k, and it never worked there...but 9x didn't seem to
care what drive image I used.

I'm really curious about your procedure, Bruce....I could use that success
rate. Hmmm...we often kill off the dll driver cache in our images, could
that be part of the issue?

-John O
 
JohnO said:
care what drive image I used.

I'm really curious about your procedure, Bruce....I could use that success
rate. Hmmm...we often kill off the dll driver cache in our images, could
that be part of the issue?

-John O
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If you're using partition images, the hardware does need to be
virtually identical; and you can't perform a repair installation from a
disk image, you need to use a true installation CD.


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