i'm not sure bout that :) any guys out there know anything bout whether will there be any conflicts? as in maybe the graphics card driver installed in the hdd from the p3 system will cause an error to not boot when i transfer the HDD to my p4 system cause they are different graphics card..something like that?

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If the chipsets on the two motherboards are not identical or remotely similar you are going to have a little situation, or as you'd like to call it - conflict! However, it is nothing that a repair install won't take care of, ofcourse there are ways to even avoid a repair install and you can easily google up for that.

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Yes there will be problems. Your windows Xp will no longer be activated and you will only be able to boot into safe mode. But you might be able to get microsoft to help you out on that. If you can, the only problems I'd say you'd have is installing new drivers for the different hardware.

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XpUser, I know CN is for everyone but some things are just too large and complex to discuss here. Sure kogan31 could swap the drive and i could tell him how to do it. But the process takes about 3-4 hours and is way to detailed for me to go over here. kogan31, swapping drives under XP doesn't work like it did under windows 95 or 98. For example, the Primary and Secondary IDE drivers may not want to "take" when you swap the drive, which will result in "compatibility mode". And the only way to get out of Compatibility mode is a format and reinstall.

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erm thank you guys so much for the help i've just tried swopping the drive and sure it did gave me a blue screen of death telling me tat there is an error while running the hdd and ask me to do a checkdisk. but how am i going to do that when i'm unable to get into windows?

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and the problem is the p4 system that i have doesnt have a cd rom drive or rather it cant read my xp cd i do not know why since my p3 cd rom can but my p4 cd rom cant so i cant do a repair.. oh damn its making me crazy why cant i just swap and use it!! any solutions?

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Sometimes this works. http://computervitals.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3548

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Thanks i'll try whether it works for me and i will post the results here(.. meanwhile are there any other solutions?

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per would u mind explaining to me how to update to a standard ide controller? do i need a xp cd?and which options from the cd do i chose from to install a standard ide controller driver?

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control panel-system-device manager-Right click the ide controller and select update driver-install from a list or specified location-don't search I will choose the driver to install-select the standard controller. http://computervitals.com/

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wat if i uninstall the driver for the ide controller and let it try to detect it automatically by windows when i do the swop.. Is it possible this way too?

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or put the cd drive from the p3 system into the p4 system, then u will be able to read the xp cd . . . . . . . . . . Woof Always proof-read carefully to see if you any words out.

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