AMD1800+ upgrade to AMD64-939

[Bonobo]

Hello all,

I am planning to upgrade my MSI K7T/1800+ to an AMD64-939 system with
PCI-E.

For safety I backup my XP-Pro system (and a lot of other sw-programs)
twice a week to another HardDisk with my Symantec -Norton Ghost program
(partition to partition...).

Now here's the question:

What will happen when I yust put the HD in the new "AMD64" system and
startup???
Will XP see the change and get the right drivers???
or will there be....nothing.......bigggggg silence...... ???

Other advice how to get all my SW and settings on the new system???



TIA

 

[kony]

Hello all,

I am planning to upgrade my MSI K7T/1800+ to an AMD64-939 system with
PCI-E.

For safety I backup my XP-Pro system (and a lot of other sw-programs)
twice a week to another HardDisk with my Symantec -Norton Ghost program
(partition to partition...).

Now here's the question:

What will happen when I yust put the HD in the new "AMD64" system and
startup???

It will, for a while, then it'll stop.

Will XP see the change
yes

... and get the right drivers???
no

or will there be....nothing.......bigggggg silence...... ???

Well if you want a moment of silence, ok...
......
....

Was that long enough?

XP will begin booting then bluescreen or maybe make it to
the login and loop. You'd need do a repair install of XP.

Other advice how to get all my SW and settings on the new system???

Repair install XP. Another less-traveled route would be
installing XP fresh along with all drivers, then copy those
drivers over to the old installation and merge the new
registry entries created for the new hardware. Repair
install should be quick and painless since you have the
Ghost backups, try that first

 

[Alceryes]

Hello all,

I am planning to upgrade my MSI K7T/1800+ to an AMD64-939 system with
PCI-E.

For safety I backup my XP-Pro system (and a lot of other sw-programs)
twice a week to another HardDisk with my Symantec -Norton Ghost program
(partition to partition...).

Now here's the question:

What will happen when I yust put the HD in the new "AMD64" system and
startup???
Will XP see the change and get the right drivers???
or will there be....nothing.......bigggggg silence...... ???

Other advice how to get all my SW and settings on the new system???



TIA

You don't want to do that...

Worst cast - XP will fail to load (BSOD, infinite loop, reboot, etc.)
Best case - you'll get XP limping along in safe mode. This is almost the
worst case as well. Even if you do get it running and CAN install proper
drivers it'll be 'damaged goods', never being as clean or running as fast as
a fresh install.

In short, save yourself the headache and do a fresh install.

 

[Derek Baker]

Hello all,

I am planning to upgrade my MSI K7T/1800+ to an AMD64-939 system with
PCI-E.

For safety I backup my XP-Pro system (and a lot of other sw-programs)
twice a week to another HardDisk with my Symantec -Norton Ghost program
(partition to partition...).

Now here's the question:

What will happen when I yust put the HD in the new "AMD64" system and
startup???
Will XP see the change and get the right drivers???
or will there be....nothing.......bigggggg silence...... ???

Other advice how to get all my SW and settings on the new system???



TIA

Assuming you have a full XP disc - not just a recovery disc, do a repair
install. I did when I upgraded from an XP 1800+ to a 64 3400+ last summer
and it was fine.

 

[Don Burnette]

Hello all,

I am planning to upgrade my MSI K7T/1800+ to an AMD64-939 system with
PCI-E.

For safety I backup my XP-Pro system (and a lot of other sw-programs)
twice a week to another HardDisk with my Symantec -Norton Ghost
program (partition to partition...).

Now here's the question:

What will happen when I yust put the HD in the new "AMD64" system and
startup???
Will XP see the change and get the right drivers???
or will there be....nothing.......bigggggg silence...... ???

Other advice how to get all my SW and settings on the new system???



TIA

Don't let it boot into Windows.
Set your bios to boot from cd-rom, and boot from the Windows XP cd. (
assuming you have a bootable XP cd).
Go ahead and select new install at first part, then it will search for an
installed os. When it shows it, select it, and press R for a repair install.

Once the repair install is completed and it boots into XP, get all your
updates installed.

The repair install basically peforms an in place upgrade.

 

[kony]

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 08:51:42 -0400, "Alceryes"

Even if you do get it running and CAN install proper
drivers it'll be 'damaged goods', never being as clean or running as fast as
a fresh install.

??

"Damaged goods" is no at all accurate, it is quite clean OS
still if you completely remove the old enumerated hardware
entries then let it redetect them all. Guaranteed zero
"cleanliness or performance" difference.

 

[theyak]

Hello all,

I am planning to upgrade my MSI K7T/1800+ to an AMD64-939 system with
PCI-E.

For safety I backup my XP-Pro system (and a lot of other sw-programs)
twice a week to another HardDisk with my Symantec -Norton Ghost program
(partition to partition...).

Now here's the question:

What will happen when I yust put the HD in the new "AMD64" system and
startup???
Will XP see the change and get the right drivers???
or will there be....nothing.......bigggggg silence...... ???

Other advice how to get all my SW and settings on the new system???



TIA

It will be fine. Before you turn off the pc for the last time with your
old hardware, go into the device manager and delete anything that is
related to your old setup: chipset, ide, video, sound, etc. Then switch
out your hardware. XP should boot just fine and find a bunch of new
hardware. Install all your drivers from cd or whatever and then you are
done.