Migrating win xp installation in other platform

[kakii]

Win xp pro sp3 installation runs on Pentium 4 533 Socket 478.

Apart from host adapter driver issue (this is separate question not to
be discussed here),
what are the migrate/upgrade possibilities regarding cpu ?
In focus only upgrade within Intel i86 family, upgrade to cpu generation
newer than Pentium 4 Northwood.
MOST IMPORTANT: migration without windows new installation.
I don't want also to discuss here the question of required
RAM and/or motherboard upgrades.

Registry adaptations or changes or another windows config files
are acceptable.

 

[John John (MVP)]

Just upgrade the processor to whatever processor your board accepts and
that's it, Windows XP should have no problems with that.

John

 

[kakii]

Thanks.
My boards supports up to the latest version of Pentium 4, but Socket 478
only.
Does your answer mean I could upgrade also (apart from the
RAM/Motherboard upgrade and host driver adaptation issues) to Core 2 Duo ?

If windows xp installation is so cpu-generation tolerant,
would be a change to AMD or another platform also so straight forward ?
Once again, apart from questions of RAM/Motherboard upgrade
and adaptations of host controller driver.

 

[DL]

If you change from Intel to AMD, then your chipset drivers will also need
changing, at least

 

[John John (MVP)]

The chipset drivers would come with the new motherboard that he will
need to run the AMD processor... ;-) I don't think he wants to move
Windows to new hardware.

John

 

[John John (MVP)]

You can only put a Socket 478 processor on the board, but that doesn't
mean that all Socket 478 processors are compatible with your board, you
will have to consult your motherboard specifications for the processor
support information. A hardware group is better suited for these kinds
of questions.

For Windows XP, a processor upgrade is really no big deal, it will see
the new processor and it will automatically do whatever it needs to do,
if it even needs to do anything.

John

 

[kakii]

Now my m-board can be purchased as second-hand only.
Within the next 5 years no platform changes (OS and/or hardware) neither
are planned nor will be made for this machine.
Thus if this board should undergo an damage, within about next 5 years,
a repair on replacement base is possible only.

Therefore I'm investigating now what replacement/hw-upgrade
possibilities do I will have in a damage situation without having
to do the machine new installation (OS+applications+personalizations).
The simplest one is to buy identical board. However I can imagine
that won't be simple to find identical board exactly in the time
my is damaged. My recent experience has showed that.

I will prepare this machine for all possible and acceptable (from the
point of view of necessary efforts) replacements options in order
to have this machine working again after a short time
if a board damage should happen somewhen in the future.