Re: Motherboard/CPU Upgrade

Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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"Terry Smythe" wrote:

| Early on, while running Win ME, I purchased WinXP Home Upgrade SP1. I
| installed it FAT32 and subsequently upgraded it on-line to SP2 [NTSF]
| on my 1.2Ghz computer. I have just purchased a new ASUS P5GD1-VM
| motherboard and a 3.0 Intel P4 CPU. Following install of the new
| MB/CPU, WinXP slips into a reboot loop without ever showing its face.
| Will not boot to Safe mode.
|
| I've been told that I must reinstall XP. If I boot to my original
| XP SP1 disk, it refuses to talk to the existing SP2 version on my hard
| drive. So I did a Slipstream upgrade of my original XP SP1 disk,
| now up to an SP2 disk.
|
| This SP2 disk will now talk to my SP2 installion on my hard drive, but
| no longer offers the "Upgrade" option. It wants to reformat my hard
| drive and do a complete reinstall. Not an acceptable option, as I
| have 30 gigs of software that would need to be reinstalled.
|
| I tried the "Repair" option, but that also fails, just drops me to the
| C: prompt, with no automatic replacement or repair.
|
| Earlier, Nepatsfan pointed me to a couple of help web sites at MVP and
| TheElderGeek. One assumes "Upgrade" is an available option. The
| other assumes that the "Repair" option will work. In my case,
| "Upgrade" does not appear as an option, and the "Repair" option does
| not work.
|
| Microsoft's own web site has a page telling us how to upgrade a
| motherboard. It also assumes "Upgrade" is an option and assumes my
| original XP disk will talk to my current upgraded installation. I
| could not find any other pages dealing with motherrboard upgrades.
| Their own page is no help at all.
|
| I really don't want to reformat/reinstall, huge undertaking. I now
| find myself wishing I had never upgraded to XP at all. With all
| previous versions of Windows, no trick at all to upgrade any and all
| hardware components.
|
| Thoughts of others.......
|
| Regards,
|
| Terry Smythe
| Winnipeg, Canada

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