Changing motherboards

[Chris May]

I seem to recall that a repair install of XP theoretically should take care of
differences in old and new chipsets. Is this correct?

I'll be moving from an MSI mobo with an Intel 845GE chipset to an ASUS with an
865PE in my second computer. IIRC, I've tried the repair install route before
without success. But it's probably worth another try if I can avoid wiping the
HDD clean and installing everything from scratch.

All suggestions for ways to make it work this time will be gratefully welcomed.

ChrisM

 

[R. McCarty]

That migration might work without a repair install. As long as you are
booting from the on-board IDE controller on the existing motherboard.
The other important criteria is whether you are migrating from one type
of HAL to a different one (ACPI Uniprocessor to Multiprocessor). I
would suggest purchasing/using an Imaging program to Image your XP
instance in case things go wrong. If you do attempt a upgrade without
a Repair install, be prepared to remove "Phantom" device entries that
will exist after the changeover. For Imaging, I recommend True Image
from Acronis (~$50)

 

[paul]

I seem to recall that a repair install of XP theoretically should take care
of
differences in old and new chipsets. Is this correct?

I'll be moving from an MSI mobo with an Intel 845GE chipset to an ASUS
with an
865PE in my second computer. IIRC, I've tried the repair install route
before
without success. But it's probably worth another try if I can avoid
wiping the
HDD clean and installing everything from scratch.

All suggestions for ways to make it work this time will be gratefully
welcomed.

ChrisM

Visit this link for the procedure:

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

 

[Chris May]

| That migration might work without a repair install. As long as you are
| booting from the on-board IDE controller on the existing motherboard.
| The other important criteria is whether you are migrating from one type
| of HAL to a different one (ACPI Uniprocessor to Multiprocessor). I
| would suggest purchasing/using an Imaging program to Image your XP
| instance in case things go wrong. If you do attempt a upgrade without
| a Repair install, be prepared to remove "Phantom" device entries that
| will exist after the changeover. For Imaging, I recommend True Image
| from Acronis (~$50)

Thanks for the advice.

I'll be going from a single core to a dual core CPU (Pentium 4 to Pentium D).

I learned the hard way years ago to never store anything irreplaceable on the
same drive as the OS. There are already fairly current images of all my HDDs,
but I'm afraid an XP repair install would probably keep "choking" over any
problem it finds each time I replaced the imaged data.

ChrisM

 

[Chris May]

|
| | >I seem to recall that a repair install of XP theoretically should take care
| >of
| > differences in old and new chipsets. Is this correct?
| >
| > I'll be moving from an MSI mobo with an Intel 845GE chipset to an ASUS
| > with an
| > 865PE in my second computer. IIRC, I've tried the repair install route
| > before
| > without success. But it's probably worth another try if I can avoid
| > wiping the
| > HDD clean and installing everything from scratch.
| >
| > All suggestions for ways to make it work this time will be gratefully
| > welcomed.
| >
| > ChrisM
|
| Visit this link for the procedure:
|
| http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Thanks for the link.

ChrisM

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I seem to recall that a repair install of XP theoretically should
take care of differences in old and new chipsets. Is this correct?

Not quite. It usually works, but there are no guarantees. Certainly try it,
but backup anything you need first and be prepared for the possibility that
you will have to do a clean installation.

 

[Gary]

I seem to recall that a repair install of XP theoretically should take
care of
differences in old and new chipsets. Is this correct?

I'll be moving from an MSI mobo with an Intel 845GE chipset to an ASUS
with an
865PE in my second computer. IIRC, I've tried the repair install route
before
without success. But it's probably worth another try if I can avoid
wiping the
HDD clean and installing everything from scratch.

All suggestions for ways to make it work this time will be gratefully
welcomed.

ChrisM

I went from a 845 to 865PE and the repair worked for me but as soon as it
boots I install service pack 2 and everything was up to speed.

 

[Chris May]

| > I seem to recall that a repair install of XP theoretically should
| > take care of differences in old and new chipsets. Is this correct?
|
| Not quite. It usually works, but there are no guarantees. Certainly try it,
| but backup anything you need first and be prepared for the possibility that
| you will have to do a clean installation.

Thanks, Ken. All of what you said bears out my experiences except for "usually
works." Usually DOESN'T work would be more in line with my history of repair
installs on major hardware upgrades.

Somebody in another group suggested something he said helps him. He said he
always makes sure onboard functions such as LAN and audio are turned off on the
new board until the repair install is complete. I thought I might take the
extra step of uninstalling old board drivers for those things before I make the
switch. Even if that doesn't help, it probably won't hurt.

ChrisM

 

[Chris May]

| I went from a 845 to 865PE and the repair worked for me but as soon as it
| boots I install service pack 2 and everything was up to speed.

Thanks, Gary. Knowing you had success doing the same thing makes me feel
better. Actually, I'll be using an XP install disc with SP2 slipsteamed in, so
I won't have to worry about a separate installation for that.

ChrisM