Re: Windows XP SP2 failed to load after hardware upgrade

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From: xfile (cou-cou_at_remove.msn.com.invalid)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:56:31 +0800

Hi Nak:

Thanks for your kind suggestions.

To answer your question, it has never succeeded on the new system.

The very first new boot got an error message that it cannot find OS, so I
went to check BIOS and it was set to boot from the floppy drive.

Ever since, the system has never succeeded on Windows startup and just do
exactly what I described.

When you mentioned re-install, does it mean to install into the same
directory? Will it give me an option to keep the original setting or will
eventually wipe out everything and do a new installation?

Activation will be a phone call away and it won't be a problem (although I
don't like it).

Thanks for your reply again. I just want to make sure before I insert the
CD again. 

-- 
Business executive who believes technology but don't want to be messed 
around.
"Nak" <a@a.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi there,
>
>> Thinking to add additional power to the system, so I sent it to change a 
>> new
>> motherboard, CPU, and DRAM.
>
>    From my experience of XP you will need to reinstall after the 
> motherboard change.  I'ts quite a big leap and I have had 2 computers do 
> exactly as you have stated by changing the motherboard.
>
>> Now the system is failed during Windows loading, and it kept coming back 
>> to
>> the same screen saying, the previous loading is unsuccessful and sorry 
>> for
>> the inconvenience...
>
>    Did it ever work with the new hardware?  Or has it just stopped?  One 
> thing I have noticed recently is that if you have removable flash storage, 
> such as an SD card reader, by having a card in the slot Windows will 
> actually attempt to boot from it, make sure you haven't got anything like 
> that going on.  Though it might sound stupid, I have been caught by this 
> one.
>
>> (1) Does it sound like a hardware related problem?  If I put everything 
>> back
>> to the original, will it resolve the problem?
>
>    Try re-installing windows, that's what I would do.
>
>> (2) What if I wish to retain the new hardware configuration and avoid
>> reformat and re-install Windows and applications, what choices do I have?
>
>    This depends whats happened.  Did XP ever work with your new hardware 
> or did it stop instantly?  If so you will need to reinstall, and possibly 
> expect the need to acquire an unlock key from Microsoft depending on your 
> recent hardware changes.  If Windows just suddenly stopped working you can 
> attempt to repair the installation by booting from the CD as if you are 
> going to re-install and taking it from there.
>
>    Anyway, I hope this helps.
>
> Nick.
>

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