Replacing Motherboard/CPU

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Mike Hogan

I had a motherboard failure and replaced it with a new board and CPU. The
hard drive was OK so I thought I would be able start Win2K and run the CD
to install the new MB drivers but didn't work. It will not boot, not even
to Safe Mode. I get a "STOP" error that says to check the drive for
corruption or viruses. The same thing happens with a different drive I
used to make a backup copy.

There are a lot of applications and utilities on the original disk that will
take days to rebuild if I do a new install of Win2K. I know the disk is OK
since I can add it as a second drive on another computer and retrieve data
files but all the programs would have to be reinstalled one at a time.

Does anyone know how to make the original drive compatible with the new
motherboard/CPU??
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Mike
 
Mike said:
I had a motherboard failure and replaced it with a new board and CPU. The
hard drive was OK so I thought I would be able start Win2K and run the CD
to install the new MB drivers but didn't work. It will not boot, not even
to Safe Mode. I get a "STOP" error that says to check the drive for
corruption or viruses. The same thing happens with a different drive I
used to make a backup copy.

There are a lot of applications and utilities on the original disk that
will take days to rebuild if I do a new install of Win2K. I know the
disk is OK since I can add it as a second drive on another computer and
retrieve data files but all the programs would have to be reinstalled one
at a time.

Does anyone know how to make the original drive compatible with the new
motherboard/CPU??
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Mike
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http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=249694
 
Thanks for the response. Unfortunately the new hardware is different from
the original so the article you reference doesn't help. It says it must be
the same hardware. There should be a way to do it, but Microsoft
is so paranoid about pirates they make it either impossible or extremely
complicated.

Mike
 
The usual way is to do a repair install using your installation CD.
These may help:



http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q292175

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q306952

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q249694&ID=KB;EN-US;Q249694


I know others have done it this way. I've had mixed success myself using
this method and frankly I usually prefer a clean install which I feel is
safer and gives me a chance to prune the dead wood at the same time. If
planned properly it's not nearly the arduous task that it seems.

Of course, it helps if you know ahead of time that you want to do the
clean install so that you can back up your data and decide which apps
need to be reinstalled in the new system and gather any needed hardware
drivers. It also helps (a lot) if you have a nicely slipstreamed install
disk with all the latest service packs, hotpacks, IE, DX, WMP etc :-)
 
The procedure in MSKB 824125 recently worked reasonably well for me.

To get my existing W2000 installation to adapt to the new mobo, I used the
procedure defined as "Replace a failed motherboard" in this article:

How to replace the motherboard on a computer that is running Windows Server
2003, Windows XP, or Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824125

Everything wasn't perfect at first. I had to reinstall the roll-up1 for SP4, IE6
SP1, the latest DirectX, my antivirus utility, a few drivers, and about three
trips to the MS update site, but all-in-all it sure beats reinstalling
everything again.

One note of caution, be sure that your OS setup CD contains the same SP version
as the installed OS. If not, create a new CD with SP4 slipstreamed. Note that
even when using a slipstreamed CD during the repair install, Windows may ask for
the SP4 CD, simply continue using the slipstreamed CD at this prompt.

Here's a link to a manual procedure that purportedly eliminates a lot of the
supplemental tweaking. It looks a bit cumbersome to me and I was reluctant to
try it.

http://www.mostlycreativeworkshop.com/Article11.html

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Hope this helps,
Newt
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| Thanks for the response. Unfortunately the new hardware is different from
| the original so the article you reference doesn't help. It says it must be
| the same hardware. There should be a way to do it, but Microsoft
| is so paranoid about pirates they make it either impossible or extremely
| complicated.
|
| Mike
| >
| >
| > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=249694
| >
| > --
| > Steve Parry BA(Hons) MCP MVP
| >
| > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
| > http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk
| >
| >
|
|
 
Mike Hogan said:
Does anyone know how to make the original drive compatible with the new
motherboard/CPU??
Click to expand...

Apparently some MBs can function with another's drivers, some can't.

I'm wondering: if you install Win2K to another partition or second drive on
the new system, install drivers for the new MB, then copy the system and
system.log files to the old Win2K installation, edit boot.ini to point to
the old install and reboot, would that do the trick?

nf
 
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