Changing motherboard

[Andy]

Hello, I'm a little lost and would appreciate some help on
this. I recently changed my motherboard and CPU from a
inter pentium 3 (400ghz) to a duron 1.3 ghz processor on a
m810 motherboard. Now, when i try to boot up, it freezes
during the boot process. Once in a while, I'll get an
error
"Windows could not staart because of the following ARC

firmware boot configuration problem:
Did not properly generate ARC name for HALs system path."

Any ideas on why this is happening and how I can recover
the data on that drive? Also, for reference sake, here is
my setup

Duron 1.3 Ghz processor
M810 Thunderbird chipset motherboard
g-force 4 MX AGP8X
Maxtor 40GB HDD (primary master)
Quantum 20GB HDD (Primary Slave)
50X CDrom (Secondary Master)
512 MB RAM


Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Did you perform a Repair Installation after the motherboard change?

When swapping chipsets, you really do need to do this in order for XP to
correctly recognise and reconfigure everything.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];315341

Before you do this, you want to download Critical Updates 810565 and 811630
and install them AFTER the Repair Installation and BEFORE going online to
get the rest of the updates. You will also need to reinstall SP1 unless
your edition of WindowsXP is one that includes it.

You can re-download the two Critical Updates using the Windows Catalog.

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[Andy]

Thanks Cari.
I'll try a repair installation. Also, incase it doesn't
work, I've read somewhere that another way to do it is to
edit the boot.ini file. It mentioned that all the
Signature lines need to be removed on and replaced with
multi(0). Then, the boot.ini ntldr and NTDETECT.com files
need to be transfered to a floppy. After that, install the
chipset and boot via the A:/. I was wondering if you or
anyone's ever tried it. If yes, what were the results.
Thanks again for your help.

-----Original Message-----
Did you perform a Repair Installation after the motherboard change?

When swapping chipsets, you really do need to do this in order for XP to
correctly recognise and reconfigure everything.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; [LN];315341

Before you do this, you want to download Critical Updates 810565 and 811630
and install them AFTER the Repair Installation and BEFORE going online to
get the rest of the updates. You will also need to reinstall SP1 unless
your edition of WindowsXP is one that includes it.

You can re-download the two Critical Updates using the Windows Catalog.

Cari
www.coribright.com

Hello, I'm a little lost and would appreciate some help on
this. I recently changed my motherboard and CPU from a
inter pentium 3 (400ghz) to a duron 1.3 ghz processor on a
m810 motherboard. Now, when i try to boot up, it freezes
during the boot process. Once in a while, I'll get an
error
"Windows could not staart because of the following ARC path."
Any ideas on why this is happening and how I can recover
the data on that drive? Also, for reference sake, here is
my setup

Duron 1.3 Ghz processor
M810 Thunderbird chipset motherboard
g-force 4 MX AGP8X
Maxtor 40GB HDD (primary master)
Quantum 20GB HDD (Primary Slave)
50X CDrom (Secondary Master)
512 MB RAM


Thanks in advance for your help.

.

 

[Michael Stevens]

Hello, I'm a little lost and would appreciate some help on
this. I recently changed my motherboard and CPU from a
inter pentium 3 (400ghz) to a duron 1.3 ghz processor on a
m810 motherboard. Now, when i try to boot up, it freezes
during the boot process. Once in a while, I'll get an
error
"Windows could not staart because of the following ARC
Any ideas on why this is happening and how I can recover
the data on that drive? Also, for reference sake, here is
my setup

Duron 1.3 Ghz processor
M810 Thunderbird chipset motherboard
g-force 4 MX AGP8X
Maxtor 40GB HDD (primary master)
Quantum 20GB HDD (Primary Slave)
50X CDrom (Secondary Master)
512 MB RAM


Thanks in advance for your help.

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Move XP to new hardware.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html