from athlon to pentium: impossible to restore?

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Huggies

Hi!
I just changed my old athlon on ecs MoBo (broken!) and installed a new
pentium on an Asus p5dg1.
I followed the istruction found on microsoft knowledge base to restore the
old installation of xp by booting from winxp cd.
The installation procedure seemed to go ok, but when i turn on the pc the OS
doesn't load, it breaks with a beep as the windows logo appears, and tries
to reboot.
I didnt find any info on this problem in the microsoft support site.

Can anyboby help me?
thanks!

huggies
 
Huggies said:
Hi!
I just changed my old athlon on ecs MoBo (broken!) and installed a new
pentium on an Asus p5dg1.
I followed the istruction found on microsoft knowledge base to restore
the old installation of xp by booting from winxp cd.
The installation procedure seemed to go ok, but when i turn on the pc
the OS doesn't load, it breaks with a beep as the windows logo
appears, and tries to reboot.
I didnt find any info on this problem in the microsoft support site.
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Often when you change motherboards, a Repair Install is enough to set
everything right - but not always. In your case, you will need to do a
format/clean install. Then install drivers and programs from
installation media and restore data from backup.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html - for changing
motherboard
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install

Malke
 
format/clean install. Then install drivers and programs from
installation media and restore data from backup.
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that's exactly what i want to avoid!
thank you anyway :(
 
Huggies said:
that's exactly what i want to avoid!
thank you anyway :(
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Yes, well... You went to a completely different processor architecture.
There really isn't any other way than a clean install. I'm sorry.

Malke
 
that's exactly what i want to avoid!
thank you anyway :(
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That's the price to pay for changing from AMD
to Intel .. mhoua hahahah hahhaha !!

Ok I'm sorry :)
 
Hi,

You might be able to install another copy of XP beside your original
one. What's most important to you, saving your info on your disk from
loss, or saving the time it takes to reinstall everything from scratch?


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