Help with new HT P4 CPU

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David Erbas-White

I'm running Windows XP Pro on an Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra motherboard,
which has the Intel 845 chipset, and a Promise 20276 RAID chip.

It's been running for a while, with only minor glitches, but I just
upgraded from a Pentium 4 533FSB 2.66GHz to a 3.06GHz with hyper-threading.

When I first installed the processor and turned it on, everything booted
correctly, it then told me it had update the system, and requested a
restart.

Upon restarting, when I would click on the username to begin, it would
hang for several minutes. I finally shut the power off and restarted,
same thing happened again. I then turned it off, restarted, but
disabled the hyperthreading in the BIOS. The system then started
properly and showed the new 3.06GHz speed. I ran it for a few hours,
then attempted to re-enable the hyperthreading in the BIOS. This time,
the system would get past the 'loading' message after clicking on the
username, but would hang up shortly thereafter.

What am I doing wrong? I don't want to have to do a complete reinstall,
due to the large amount of data on the system.

Any suggestions?

David Erbas-White
 
Larry said:
You need to run a repair install to update the HAL to the correct HAL for
the new hardware.
Click to expand...

Thanks for the prompt reply. How 'risky' is this? In other words, will
backing up my data be (probably) sufficient, or will I have to go
through the anguish of backing up 300GB of stuff across the whole hard
drive? I realize there's always a risk, but it helps to know the level
of risk when deciding how much effort to expend...

David Erbas-White
 
I would certainly back up any irreplaceable data. Did you ever hear of
Murphy or his law?

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
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