Hardware Upgrade Aggravation

[Terry Smythe]

For past year or so, I've been working with an ECS L7VMM2 motherboard
with an AMD 1.2ghz CPU. On Boxing Day I treated myself to a new
ASUS P5GD1-VM MB, a 3.0Ghz Intel P4 CPU, and a pair of 200gig hard
drives.

I've been successful in cloning my WinXP Home from a small drive to
the big drive, installing both drives, and migrating from FAT32 to
NTFS It was quite an adventure. Trying to install the new CPU/MB
is turning out to be a real aggravation.

WinXP Home SP2 will not boot. It slips into a reboot loop without
ever splashing the XP screen. Try as I might, I cannot get XP to
boot. My vendor is, I believe, taking an easy way out by telling I
must do a fresh install of XP.

Sorry, not a good option as XP Home (Upgrade) will not let me do a
reinstall like I always did with all previous versions of Windows. XP
will only let me install if I reformat the drive first. Too much
to lose.

Using a spare drive loaded with WinME, normal boot emerges, telling me
the new CPU and MB are OK. Reinstall my old MB/CPU and system
comes to life normally, telling me my WinXP and hard drives are OK.

What do I need to do to get my system up and running with this new 3.0
CPU and MB?

Thoughts of others?

Regards,

Terry Smythe
Winnipeg, Canada

 

[Guest]

Might sound like the "easy way out" but he's correct....Thier is simply no way
to put a hd with xp on it to another board and get it to work,you must
reinstall...
Why not put hd back on old board and save youre data to a cd.....

 

[Terry Smythe]

Might sound like the "easy way out" but he's correct....Thier is simply no way
to put a hd with xp on it to another board and get it to work,you must
reinstall...
Why not put hd back on old board and save youre data to a cd.....

My worst fears........ :-( Why would Microsoft force me into this
situation? My data is backed up, not a problem there, but I've got
30 gigs of software that I would have to reinstall. I'm suddenly
wishing I had never bought XP at all. Leaving me with a very bad
taste......

Regards,

Terry

 

[Nepatsfan]

In (e-mail address removed) Terry Smythe
wrote:

For past year or so, I've been working with an ECS L7VMM2
motherboard with an AMD 1.2ghz CPU. On Boxing Day I
treated myself to a new ASUS P5GD1-VM MB, a 3.0Ghz Intel P4
CPU, and a pair of 200gig hard drives.

I've been successful in cloning my WinXP Home from a small
drive to the big drive, installing both drives, and
migrating from FAT32 to NTFS It was quite an adventure.
Trying to install the new CPU/MB is turning out to be a real
aggravation.

WinXP Home SP2 will not boot. It slips into a reboot loop
without ever splashing the XP screen. Try as I might, I
cannot get XP to boot. My vendor is, I believe, taking
an easy way out by telling I must do a fresh install of XP.

Sorry, not a good option as XP Home (Upgrade) will not let
me do a reinstall like I always did with all previous
versions of Windows. XP will only let me install if I
reformat the drive first. Too much to lose.

Using a spare drive loaded with WinME, normal boot emerges,
telling me the new CPU and MB are OK. Reinstall my old
MB/CPU and system comes to life normally, telling me my
WinXP and hard drives are OK.

What do I need to do to get my system up and running with
this new 3.0 CPU and MB?

Thoughts of others?

Regards,

Terry Smythe
Winnipeg, Canada

If you can't start a repair installation, you may be stuck
having to perform
a clean installation. You might want to take a look at these
articles:

Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

Replace Motherboard on a Windows XP System
http://www.theeldergeek.com/replace_motherboard.htm

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[Terry Smythe]

You might want to take a look at these articles:

Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

Replace Motherboard on a Windows XP System
http://www.theeldergeek.com/replace_motherboard.htm

Many thanks for the tips, appreciated. There must be a zillion XP
owners out there who upgrade their hardware, and face the same
aggravations I'm going through. This seems like a perfect
application for a computer utility. After all, isn't this what
computers are for? I wonder why Microsoft is not providing a
utility to facilitate hardware upgrades under XP. Failure to do so
is a sure way to make the same zillion people very unhappy with
Microsoft. I for one..... :-(

Regards,

Terry