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new motherboard...
Hello,
Installing new motherboard and cpu in xp machine. All other hardware is the same. Can I just hook up my current hard drive that has xp installed and switch on? Cheers, td. |
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toedipper wrote:
Hello, Installing new motherboard and cpu in xp machine. All other hardware is the same. Can I just hook up my current hard drive that has xp installed and switch on? Cheers, td. Of course not! You cannot rip the guts out of a system and expect it to act as though nothing has happened. You will need to perform a repair installation at the very least (and this is assuming a self-built system with a retail OEM, or a standard retail licence). If your system was purchased with XP factory installed then, usually, the motherboard is considered the machine and a change of motherboard will void the licence. In this instance, your only choice would be to purchase a new licence. I hope you backed up anything critical before installation because, in some instances, a clean installation may be necessary. I also have no idea why you're posting this here as there are plenty of Windows XP groups available (microsoft.public.windowsxp. general would have been a good place to start). You will, obviously, need to reactivate. -- My great-grandfather was born and raised in Elgin - did he eventually lose his marbles? |
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"toedipper" wrote in message ... Hello, Installing new motherboard and cpu in xp machine. All other hardware is the same. Can I just hook up my current hard drive that has xp installed and switch on? Cheers, td. DO NOT TRY TO BOOT WINDOWS WITH A NEW MOTHERBOARD. It will cause problems. Many of them. As soon as you get the computer running, you should to a repair install, assuming you have a real copy of windows, not an OEM version. This should install all the proper motherboard drivers for the new board, and remove the old one. No guarantees though, and you might end up having to reformat the drive and do a clean install. |
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And then there are those that have swapped out a motherboard and cpu and done
nothing to windows and have it work just fine. XP is very forgiving comparied to win9x OS's. However that being said, you should do a repair, and if you can, hell do a clean install, you'll know for sure then. But before you do anything make sure all important data is backed up and either stored on a seperate drive or burned to cds/dvds. Go online and look up the procedure to do a repair in XP. Good luck ~A |
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No. When you change the motherboard in an XP based computer you must
reformat the harddrive and then do a fresh install of the OS. This will prevent ongoing nasty Registry errors. -- DaveW "toedipper" wrote in message ... Hello, Installing new motherboard and cpu in xp machine. All other hardware is the same. Can I just hook up my current hard drive that has xp installed and switch on? Cheers, td. |
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DaveW wrote:
No. When you change the motherboard in an XP based computer you must reformat the harddrive and then do a fresh install of the OS. This will prevent ongoing nasty Registry errors. Formatting is (usually) quite unnecessary. A repair installation will work fine. Obviously there might be some rare occasions when a format is required, but not as a general rule. -- My great-grandfather was born and raised in Elgin - did he eventually lose his marbles? |
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"Miss Perspicacia Tick" wrote in message .. . DaveW wrote: No. When you change the motherboard in an XP based computer you must reformat the harddrive and then do a fresh install of the OS. This will prevent ongoing nasty Registry errors. Formatting is (usually) quite unnecessary. A repair installation will work fine. Obviously there might be some rare occasions when a format is required, but not as a general rule. And many folks disagree... it's close to 50% of the time it doesn't work. Personally, I've never seen a PC working 100% normally after a mainboard swap until is was formatted/reloaded. They may work, but there are always quirks and sometimes they don't show up for weeks, but they eventually do. Bottom line is that you can't PLAN to do this without issues and you should backup your information anyhow. |
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