Recently I bought a AMD 1.2 GHZ Athlon that came with the a nice motherboard to fit it in. I changed everything over from my old system to the new hardware and when i first booted up, the computer would feeze on the at about 20 seconds into the boot. So i got frustrated and put the old hardware back in (i needed a comp). One weekend I tried to do it again and this time it would get to the updating hardware screen where in windows and freeze. So I put my old stuff back in again and error messages were coming up all over the place and I couldnt get on my school network. So when I go back to school I am going to reformat the hard drive and then put the new equipment back in and load it with XP Pro. Is this a good idea?? Does anyone have any other better solutions??

You did not mention which OS you originally had I assume 9x. I don't think that installing XP will solve your problems, which seem to be hardware-related. When moving hardware, go one step at a time. Start with a minimum configuration - Motherboard Videocard & keyboard. Verify that works. Then add mouse and Floppy disk, etc. Go one step at a time. Then if there is a problem you will know exactly where it is. Good luck - and keep us posted! Prang

Poor old windoze is getting very confused. You tell it to run on a certain set of hardware , then you do a sneaky switch and expect it to know what all this new mobo/cpu chipset is all about. Then when it complains you switch it back again, POOR windoze. When switching a hardrive from one mobo/cpu/chipset combo to another, Give windoze a little help and delete the ENUM key from the local machine section of the registry. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum That way windoze knows it has to find all the new hardware settings. IT will most likely want some info from your install CD and from the drivers for the new stuff.

Simple answer: put old mobo/cpu in and copy off all of your important files (this where a cd-rw or 2nd hd comes in handy, then replace with your new mobo/cpu, boot with floppy, start computer with cdrom support, format c: and do a clean install. works like a charm every time. I learned this one the hard way. If you were using winXP, it will think you have pirated and shutdown. XP eula is tied to mobo and MS don't care about you other than to tell you to buy another copy. BTW, I use win98se and mandrake linux 8.1 powerpack edition.

What about Windows 2000? I bought a new computer and want to install my current HD with Win2000 into the new machine. Is this possible without having to reformat? Thanks. Roberto.