Upgrading motherboard, how to get XPH to boot?

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***** charles

Hi all,

I had an amd xp1800 cpu in an ecs motherboard which went south.
I replaced it with an asrock amd64 2800. The ddr ram transfered
over and the power supply was unaffected along with the 80G hd.
I thought I could do a repair install from my legal oem xp home cd
(yes, I know). Trouble is, the cd I think is corrupt. When I boot
to it, the first screens are ok but after it does the driver loading bit
I get a normal character blue screen but there is an equals sign on the
first line in the upper left hand corner and another equals sign on the
second line just below it and to the right also in the upper left hand
corner. Different cd drives give same results.
I can hit return several times and eventually get a eula which
I can then get past by doing an F8. After that I get ????'s a couple
of places on the screen and what looks like a list of two partitions
but with funny characters. At that point there is no way I think I can
get into repair mode so I just shut the computer down. There are
many important files as in pictures and spreadsheets on the 80G that
I do not want to loose. I have tried to replace the 80G with a 20G
and I get the same goofed up installation screens. The reason for the
attempted repair is that I am assuming that I can do it that way and
not put in a key ID number. True? If I copy the cab files and do an
install from them from D drive, I must put in a key ID number, true?
So my question is, what is the best way to fix this without having to
enter another key ID number?

thanks for your patience,
charles.......
 
Run complete memory diagnostics.

What size power supply?
Also test the power supply for proper voltage output (just because it works
doesn't mean it is supplying the correct voltage).

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Larry Samuels said:
Run complete memory diagnostics.

What size power supply?
Also test the power supply for proper voltage output (just because it works
doesn't mean it is supplying the correct voltage).
Click to expand...

Brand new 450W, works with other stuff fine.
Assuming it is a corrupted cd, how do I get around problem?
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MS-MVP (2001-2005)
Unofficial FAQ for Windows Server 2003 at
http://pelos.us/SERVER.htm
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Click to expand...

Sorry for the double post, my clock was set to 1999 and I was afraid
the first one wouldn't take.
 
If it is just a bad cd, simply borrow a matching OEM cd and use it to run
the repair with your cd key.

--
Larry Samuels Associate Expert
MS-MVP (2001-2005)
Unofficial FAQ for Windows Server 2003 at
http://pelos.us/SERVER.htm
Expert Zone-
 
Larry Samuels said:
If it is just a bad cd, simply borrow a matching OEM cd and use it to run
the repair with your cd key.
Click to expand...

I have thought of that but I don't know anyone at the moment who has one.
Most of the people I know have restore cd's and not generic OEM cd's.
Big companies are getting more and more picky about what you can do
with "their" restore cd's.

later.....
 
Larry Samuels said:
If it is just a bad cd, simply borrow a matching OEM cd and use it to run
the repair with your cd key.
Click to expand...

Your suggestion triggered an idea whereby I called a friend.
He came over with what I needed (he owed me) on a saturday
night no less. His cd worked fine so I do have a bad one.

Thanks for everything,
charles......
 
I spoke too soon. Even though the new cd booted ok whenever
I hit the r key to go into the recovery console, the computer reboots.

If I try to boot to the 80G in safe mode/command prompt it gets to
the IPVMon.sys file and reboots.

Seems the cd I got from the friend is a "crippled" OEM cd. I got it
to install a very small subset of XPH on the 20G hd. I guess the
only thing left to do is try to copy all the data files I can from the 80G
to
the second partition on the 20G and when finished, reformat and
reload from scratch onto the 80G and then copy all the files back.

Small gripe:
I understand the reasoning for key ID numbers and such but it sure
makes working on the blasted machines a lot harder.

thanks for all the feedback,
charles......
 
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