Re: Need new setup CD for SP2 when mother board upgrade?

Is the XP CD not booting at all, or booting and throwing an error? If you cannot even boot from the CD my original answer is correct, if you can boot from the CD but get an error after that, that is an entirely different story.

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"Chuck A." <ChuckA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9F790D62-7828-41A8-B21F-CE2A9299F924@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I don't agree. The hardware is fine. I have installed a copy of Server 2003
by booting from its setup CD and the system is running fine with it
(different HDD) but I would rather have XP Pro back on the machine. The SP2
setup includes newer hardware drivers for current day MBs than the original
setup CD. The SP2 setup I booted from floppies got much further in the
process than the setup booted from the original CD. The original setup give
a stop 0x7E on pci.sys after loading the drivers and attempting to start
windows.

Chuck A.

"David B." wrote:

Your problem is not related to SP2, having an original or SP1 CD and an SP2
install will not prevent your PC from booting from the CD, you have other
problems, maybe with the disk or your CD drive. Check the BIOS boot order to
make sure the CD drive is listed before the hard drive.

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"Chuck A." <Chuck A.@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have a computer on which I have been running XP Pro for many years. >The
> system was upgraded from a previous windows using the original XP Pro
> Upgrade
> CD. The installed system was upgraded using Internet download patches > to
> SP2
> long ago. I have installed a newer mother board in the machine and the
> installed windows will not boot because of lack of drivers for the new > MB.
> When I attmept to re-install from the original CD, booting setup from > the
> original CD also fails because it is pre-SP2 (or SP1) and will not > start
> with
> the newer chipset on the MB.
>
> I downloaded the SP2 setup from MS and created boot floppies. That
> version
> will run setup to the point of needing the CD. It will not accept my > CD
> because it is not a SP2 CD.
>
> So, my question is since I have a valid license for XP Pro on this
> machine,
> is there any way I can get a SP2 setup CD that will install on the new > MB?
> Or do I have to purchase a complete new copy of XP Pro and spend even > more
> $
> on this computer?



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