upgrading from home to pro does'nt go

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My tyan S2875 motherboard is the latest in a seires of upgrades to my
desktop, with 2 opteron 248 prosessors @ 2.2ghz , 4gb bufferd/ecc ram and a
All in wonder 2006 ed 256mb agp video card . I started w/windows 98se
upgraded to xp home with my last board/prosessor upgrade and this time planed
to up to xp pro. So far I have tried every way to install this new OS but end
up with an unstable system or it will not boot. I suspect my problem lies
with the fact that my new product cd installs sp2 automaticly.

 

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Question, did the PC boot and run properly before the OS upgrade but after
the hardware upgrade?
are the Ram the same ones before the OS upgrade? if not, I suspect it is the
RAM.

I had trouble installing XP pro on a new PC because of two sticks of RAM not
quite functioning. I got all sort of symptoms: blue screen, device driver
errors, unable to install. OS, corrupt disk files, or unable to install
some device drives

 

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This is a direction I need to investigate. Circumstances have moved my
computer to a lower priority for a time but I will post my results when I
can. Thank you!