Changing Hardware on Win2000 Server ?

[JonH]

My test Windows 2000 Server has died !

The board and CPU have fried, taking the lan and vga with them....
The harddisk and CD-RW are fine...

Can I replace the Board, Cpu, Vga and Lan, then boot from my original
harddisk and recover the 2000 server installation ??

Is there a repair boot option, that will work ??

Any Ideas ?

Thanks
Jon

 

[David H. Lipman]

You would be best served by obtaining the EXACT same model motherboard, CPU and RAM.

What is the platform ? Details please...

Dave



| My test Windows 2000 Server has died !
|
| The board and CPU have fried, taking the lan and vga with them....
| The harddisk and CD-RW are fine...
|
| Can I replace the Board, Cpu, Vga and Lan, then boot from my original
| harddisk and recover the 2000 server installation ??
|
| Is there a repair boot option, that will work ??
|
| Any Ideas ?
|
| Thanks
| Jon

 

[JonH]

This is a test server, that had a Epox Board and AMD Athlon 800Mhz CPU.

The new board is an 'all in one' elite L7VMM3.. Not very powerful, nut
enough for a test server..

Ideally I don't want to have to reinstall all my apps and development web
sites..

Thanks

 

[David H. Lipman]

You want to locate and obtain the Epox. It will save many hours of repairing that would
occur if the hardware on the L7VMM3 is dramatically different than the Epox. For example
VIA chip-set instead of Intel chip-set.

Dave



| This is a test server, that had a Epox Board and AMD Athlon 800Mhz CPU.
|
| The new board is an 'all in one' elite L7VMM3.. Not very powerful, nut
| enough for a test server..
|
| Ideally I don't want to have to reinstall all my apps and development web
| sites..
|
| Thanks
|
| On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:56:05 -0500, "David H. Lipman"
|
| >You would be best served by obtaining the EXACT same model motherboard, CPU and RAM.
| >
| >What is the platform ? Details please...
| >
| >Dave
| >
| >
| >
| >| >| My test Windows 2000 Server has died !
| >|
| >| The board and CPU have fried, taking the lan and vga with them....
| >| The harddisk and CD-RW are fine...
| >|
| >| Can I replace the Board, Cpu, Vga and Lan, then boot from my original
| >| harddisk and recover the 2000 server installation ??
| >|
| >| Is there a repair boot option, that will work ??
| >|
| >| Any Ideas ?
| >|
| >| Thanks
| >| Jon
| >
|

 

[JonH]

Well, I've rebuilt the Server, with the new motherboard (ECS L7VMM3)

As soon as I powered up, I booted from the Win 2000 CD, Selected Repair,
then Fast Repair (!)...

Now 2000 Server is up and running and all seems fine..

Just doing a windows update, but every thing appears to be fine !

Cheers