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Greetings,

I am planning a major upgrade in which I wish to replace everything except
my hard drive. I would like to retain the hard drive with all data and OS in
tact. The only potential problem I foresee so far is that after I install my
existing hard drive will Windows XP (Professional SP2) be capable of
re-establishing itself with the new hardware. If not, how would I prepare
for this before hand?

The old system is a DELL Dimension 4100. The new system will be my own
personal hybrid with an Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz processor, ASUS P4S800 with
SIS 648FXchipset.

Thanks in advance.
R.
 
Greetings,

I am planning a major upgrade in which I wish to replace everything except
my hard drive. I would like to retain the hard drive with all data and OS in
tact. The only potential problem I foresee so far is that after I install my
existing hard drive will Windows XP (Professional SP2) be capable of
re-establishing itself with the new hardware. If not, how would I prepare
for this before hand?

The old system is a DELL Dimension 4100. The new system will be my own
personal hybrid with an Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz processor, ASUS P4S800 with
SIS 648FXchipset.

Thanks in advance.
R.
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These should help
http://netsecurity.about.com/od/windowsxp/qt/aaqtwinxp0829.htm
http://aumha.org/win5/kbsetup.php



HTH :)



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If you replace the motherboard in a computer using Windows as the OS, then
you MUST reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS.
Otherwise, you will suffer ongoing Registry errors and data corruption.
 
If you replace the motherboard in a computer using Windows as the OS,
then you MUST reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS.
Otherwise, you will suffer ongoing Registry errors and data
corruption.
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This is nonsense. DaveW is a complete idiot.A repair install will
accomplish what you want.

sid
 
Just a friendly word of warning,

There is talk around that the SIS6XX chipset is not
fully compatable with the Geforce 6600GT video cards
my Motherboard is a Gigabyte with the same SIS chipset
as you mention and I am having troubles with that video card.
I am using an 8X agp if you go pci express for your video
you might not have the same hardware troubles.

I do not recommend you get a mb with the SIS chipset.

Only my personal opinion.

Good Luck.

Your old OS will be configured for your old hardware it might not work
right if you try to run different HW you might need to obliterate
the old OS and reinstall it for the new HW.

I do not know how you can save money upgrading the way
the industry is controlling things today. They got you by the gonads.

geoff
 
Just a friendly word of warning,

There is talk around that the SIS6XX chipset is not
fully compatable with the Geforce 6600GT video cards
my Motherboard is a Gigabyte with the same SIS chipset
as you mention and I am having troubles with that video card.
I am using an 8X agp if you go pci express for your video
you might not have the same hardware troubles.
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Do you have a link to show this,"Incompatibilty" as I was thinking of
getting a more up-to-date SIS chip set board :/



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sid said:
This is nonsense. DaveW is a complete idiot.A repair install will
accomplish what you want.

sid
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Ok Sid, then explain this....

took a harddrive XP Pro install from an i865 Intel machine (celeron 2.4) to
a nForce2 machine (athlon xp2200) WITHOUT a repair install, installed the
nForce drivers, and all was lovely until I decided to install a RAID system
and opt for the clean install. How do you explain this? Windows bitched
and moaned about drivers, but once they were there, it ran without a hiccup
for a year??? Repair install was unnecessary.
 
As Sid said, a repair install should do it, but beware! You have a DELL !
The XP that came with it is OEM and thus not transfereable to a new machine!
It migth even be locked to a Dell BIOS and won't work on anything else.....



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sbb78247 said:
Ok Sid, then explain this....

took a harddrive XP Pro install from an i865 Intel machine (celeron 2.4) to
a nForce2 machine (athlon xp2200) WITHOUT a repair install, installed the
nForce drivers, and all was lovely until I decided to install a RAID system
and opt for the clean install. How do you explain this? Windows bitched
and moaned about drivers, but once they were there, it ran without a hiccup
for a year??? Repair install was unnecessary.
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You're trying to 'argue' something that isn't the issue at this stage.
DaveW said it'll be foobar unless you do a fresh install. Sid said no, that
a repair reinstall would avoid any such problems.

That you have one you feel needed NOTHING at ALL, and still worked, does
not contradict Sid.
 
David said:
You're trying to 'argue' something that isn't the issue at this stage.
DaveW said it'll be foobar unless you do a fresh install. Sid said
no, that a repair reinstall would avoid any such problems.

That you have one you feel needed NOTHING at ALL, and still worked,
does not contradict Sid.
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sid voiced his opinion, and so did i. do you have a problem with free
speach?
 
sbb78247 said:
sid voiced his opinion, and so did i. do you have a problem with free
speach?
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Hitler should enter the conversation any minute now. Until then, why do you
hate America so much?
 
but once they were there, it ran without a hiccup for a year??? Repair

so you went about a 'repair' in a different way, instead of following the
procedures outlined. By chance it worked.

BTW an OPINION is followed by the recognition that it is, not passed off as
fact, then later claim its just your opinion. A repair install is the
recommendation, you don't want to do it that way, no problem, just let
people know that you are not following procedures outlined in a manual.

Dave W insist EVERY TIME that formatting is without a doubt needed, His
OPINION, but words it as fact.
 
As Sid said, a repair install should do it, but beware! You have a DELL !
The XP that came with it is OEM and thus not transfereable to a new machine!
It migth even be locked to a Dell BIOS and won't work on anything else.....
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I don't think Dell locks its OEM version of Windows XP to its
BIOS. I'm running a Dell OEM right now on a white box, courtest of
WPA_Kill.exe, and it works just fine.
 
sbb78247 said:
sid voiced his opinion, and so did i.
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And I pointed out that your "then explain this" challenge was illogical
because it is not a 'contradiction' of Sid's point needing an 'explanation'.
do you have a problem with free
speach?
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No. Do you?
 
Gary said:
Uhmmmm .... it's FUBAR.
****ed Up Beyond Any Recognition.
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Well, there is a school of thought that foobar is a bowdlerization of the
WWII slang fubar but the more likely scenario is that fubar derived, likely
influenced by the German furchtbar (terrible), from the foo version as foo
goes back to the 1930's with the earliest known print reference being the
Smokey Stover comic strip.

The current 'wisdom' on the 'meaning' of fubar is really a backronym, as is
the supposed 'meaning' (Forward Observation Officer) to the British
version, "Foo was here," of the American equivalent "Kilroy was here.

'Foo' was always a nonsense word often combined with others and, as one
example, Holman's strip featured a firetruck called the Foomobile that rode
on two wheels. 'Foo fad' swept America, there were over 500 ‘Foo Clubs',
and custom license plates with various 'foo sayings', such as "Many smoke
but foo men chew" or "He who foos last foos best," were popular.

(Holman claimed to have found the word "foo" on the bottom of a Chinese
figurine and that's plausible as "fu", often transliterated as "foo," is
the Mandarin word for "happiness" or "prosperity" when pronounced properly.
The popular reception of Holman's 'foo' nonsense word was undoubtedly
influenced by Yiddish 'feh' and English 'fooey' and 'fool'.)

The public 'foo fad' died down prior to WWII but 'foo' lived on in the
military.

In 1958 'Fooism' began a public return, or rather a computer circles
return, via the unsuccessful underground cartoon magazine titled "FOO,
Lampoons and Parody" and, by 1959, the "Dictionary of the TMRC Language"
included the entry:

FOO: The first syllable of the sacred chant phrase “FOO MANE PADME HUM.”
Our first obligation is to keep the foo counters turning.

Almost the entire staff of what later became the MIT AI Lab was involved
with TMRC, and the word spread anew from there.



Gets kind of dicey to argue about the 'proper' usage of slang but, when it
comes to DaveW's silly "ongoing Registry errors" admonishment, the
nonsensical version just seems so appropriate ;)
 
Al said:
I don't think Dell locks its OEM version of Windows XP to its BIOS. I'm
running a Dell OEM right now on a white box, courtest of WPA_Kill.exe,
and it works just fine.
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Since you're using a hack to defeat whatever locking mechanism might be
there your conclusion is illogical.
 
Since you're using a hack to defeat whatever locking mechanism might be there your conclusion is illogical.
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Well, it installs fine on a non-Dell box, and runs fine. I get the
standard 30-day countdown. I thought that when the OS was
BIOS-locked, it would not install.
 
Al said:
Well, it installs fine on a non-Dell box, and runs fine. I get the
standard 30-day countdown. I thought that when the OS was BIOS-locked,
it would not install.
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No, it'll install just like any other version. Once installed it checks the
BIOS and if it passes then nothing else need be done since it's on the
'right machine'. Otherwise it goes through the normal activation sequence.

However, beginning March 1 2005, the product keys distributed with the
pre-validated OEM locked versions are no longer accepted for activation.
 
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