Stefan said:
Hello,
I've replaced my mainboard, to a board with another chipset. Unfortunately
the old board is defect.
Is there a way to change the ide drivers to default Ide drivers without
booting XP?
(different ide chipset causes reboot)
I dont want to re-install Windows XP.
Anyone?
gr. Stefan
Normally, and assuming a retail license (many factory-installed OEM
installations are BIOS-locked to a specific chipset and therefore *not*
transferable to a new motherboard - check yours before starting), unless
the new motherboard is virtually identical (same chipset, same IDE
controllers, same BIOS version, etc.) to the one on which the WinXP
installation was originally performed, you'll need to perform a repair
(a.k.a. in-place upgrade) installation, at the very least:
How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341
Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with WinXP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html
The "why" is quite simple, really: You've pulled the proverbial
hardware rug out from under the OS. (If you don't like -- or get -- the
rug analogy, think of it as picking up a Cape Cod style home and then
setting it down onto a Ranch style foundation. It just isn't going to
fit.) WinXP, like Win2K before it, is not nearly as "promiscuous" as
Win9x when it comes to accepting any old hardware configuration you
throw at it. On installation it "tailors" itself to the specific
hardware found. This is one of the reasons that the entire WinNT/2K/XP
OS family is so much more stable than the Win9x group.
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