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New Motherboard - XP Problem
Name: welshman Date: November 24, 2006 at 09:31:12 Pacific OS: XP PRO CPU/Ram: 1 GIG Product: GIGABYTE
Comment:
Just put a new motherboard and chip in the box and connected my old hard drive to it with xp pro on. XP Pro not booting up presumably because of the drivers for the new motherboard - it just tries to boot for a few seconds and it goes back to the POST screen. Anyway around this without reformatting? It wont go to safe mode or anything...... thanks people.
Name: jam Date: November 24, 2006 at 09:38:38 Pacific
Reply:
You can't swap the board & use the old installation of XP...as you found out, it won't work. You can usually do a "repair install" rather than reformatting.
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: November 24, 2006 at 09:54:12 Pacific
Reply:
Run a Repair install.
Life is more painless for those who are brainless.
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Response Number 3
Name: GX1 Man Date: November 24, 2006 at 11:26:58 Pacific
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And if that doesn't work plan on a full install.
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Response Number 4
Name: Sangamoura Date: November 24, 2006 at 15:11:44 Pacific
Reply:
Changing a MOBO is a very hit and miss affair, sometimes you'll get away with it sometimes not. It's a subject which has been brought up here many times before.
I've done it successfuly once but on that occasion I used Device Manager to uninstall just about everything I could BEFORE the changeout.
Apparently I'm told, having a corporate version of XP also helps ;<))
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