Re: Motherboard upgrade--is XP Repair permanent?

KenV wrote:

I just replaced one ASUS Intel-basedmotherboard with a newer ASUS board which has a different chipset and drivers. Naturally it wouldn't boot onto XP SP2. So, I repaired Windows with my Microsoft XP SP1 disk (not Reovery but Repair), skipping all sorts of files along the way that couldn't be found. After the repair, it did boot up into a barely functioning SP1 version. I then loaded all the new ASUS-Intel chipset drivers and rebooted successfully. I reactivated XP. I was unable to do an SP2 upgrade through the usual automatic MS update page, so I DL'ed the entire SP2 file from Microsoft and upgraded successfully to SP2.

Everything worked, and I dodged the bullet, right? Wrong.

Now, 2 weeks later, things are starting to act up a bit. I got a USB voltage error message that has just gone away.Then, the bult-in LAN didn't work--it said the cable was disconnected, which it wasn't. That's working again, now.

I then called the always helpful ASUS tech support people who walked me through everything. The tech, a very sympathetic fellow, said, "You are going to have problems eventually. I have never seen a Repair like this work permanently, usually not after a couple months. Windows is going to start looking for the old inf files from the old MB chipset. It is very difficult to get rid of them because both boards are Intel, but they are throughout your registry. You will either have to do a clean XP install after backing up all your data, or else call Microsoft tech support and pay for about a 3-4 hour phone session while they walk you through the registry repair process to get rid of all the old board's registry entries."

Is the ASUS guy right? Should I do a clean install? Is there anything written about how to do such a registry repair without having to call Microsoft?

Thanks very much.

Ken




Make a slipstreamed CD of XP including sp2, then do the repair install. In fact I'd try that now if I were you.

We've run into this before. Performing a repair install of XP sp1 over the top of XP sp2 results in some odd things, remnants of sp2 get left behind (sp1 has no knowledge of them and leaves them alone) and sp2 might not istall afterwards because it may see those remnants and abort or be incomplete. I have personally tested it several times. Wierd things can happen.

Steve N.

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