Re: repair + reinstall worked perfectly - my first time

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Removing as much hardware as possible is a great idea if you can do it.
Most of my motherboard replacements are on unbootable boards though.
I have actually had good luck swapping boards and doing repair installs.
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"Don Burnette" <d.burnette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Leythos wrote:
>> I just did a repair/reinstall as I moved a computer from a VAIO P4
>> with all it's custom hardware to a white-box ASUS P4P800E, it would
>> not boot, changed all the parts, and after doing a repair-reinstall,
>> and then installing the new drivers, it's working perfectly.
>> Just a note as this is not my normal experience with this - it fails
>> most times for me.
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> The repair install, after replacing a motherboard, has worked very well
> for me. I have replaced my motherboard 3 times in the last 3 years. I went
> from an Epox board, to an Asus A7N8X Deluxe, to an MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum
> socket 939 64 bit. Each time the repair install worked beautifully. I love
> that feature.
>
> The key is to NOT let it boot into windows XP upon initial bootup, but to
> boot from the XP cd, and proceed to do the repair install, then the
> motherboard drivers, then the remaining drivers and updates.
>
> It also doesn't hurt to remove the existing old motherboard drivers before
> shutting it down for the final time, prior to putting the new board in.
> Don Burnette


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