Re: Changinbg from Via to Nforce Mainboard chipset with XP Pro -

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

"With all the sophistication in XP, you would have thought it should cope
easily with such things!"

XP might, but that would get in the way of the scheme to lock an XP install
to a particular PC.

There are several Hal versions. a couple will work on different hardware,
but then the activation/validation stuff will take over.
In general the versions of Hal that are the most flexable also "dumb down"
the hardware.

"Will" <Will@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4F07729E-BF02-4BCD-B7CA-EAE7453103C9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Great advice and links, many thanks.
Reluctance to do fresh install is because it takes about a week to get
things back together and because a mainboard change with Win98 and prev
(...
all the way back to DOS 5) was "minor".
With all the sophistication in XP, you would have thought it should cope
easily with such things!

Anyway, I'll try the repair installation - already backed up using GHOST
2003

Thanks again.

"Malke" wrote:

Will wrote:

Taking my XP Pro (SP2) HDD from my Via mainboard and putting it
into a
Nforce2 board causes a partial boot only. In safe mode it stops at
MUP.sys then restarts. I know this isn't to do with MUP.sys itself,
most likely IDE drivers or whatever.

Question is - what is the correct procedure to do this successfully -
WITHOUT a fresh install!!!? I imaging changing some drivers/registry
entries beforehand?


That behavior is as expected. When you move a drive with an XP install
on it to different hardware, you must do a Repair Install at the very
least. In some cases, a full Clean Install will be necessary. If a
clean install is necessary, then it is and insisting that you don't
want to do one isn't useful. Hopefully your Repair Install will go
smoothly. Certainly you should have all your data backed up anyway,
because Stuff Happens.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html - for changing
motherboard
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm - Repair Install
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install

Malke
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