New Mobo and CPU w/ XP

[Dooglo]

My cquestion is do I have to re-install xp on my hd if I
upgrade my mobo and cpu?

 

[Alias]

My cquestion is do I have to re-install xp on my hd if I
upgrade my mobo and cpu?

Yes. If it were just the cpu, no, but the motherboard will have
drivers/BIOS, etc. that are different than your previous motherboard.

Alias

 

[Dooglo]

-----Original Message-----



Yes. If it were just the cpu, no, but the motherboard will have
drivers/BIOS, etc. that are different than your previous motherboard.

Alias


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Thanks,

I thought so, but wanted to ask someone.

Thanks again.

 

[Michael Stevens]

My cquestion is do I have to re-install xp on my hd if I
upgrade my mobo and cpu?

Click on the link below, or copy and paste the link into the address box
if using the web based newsgroup.
Move XP to new hardware.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html
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[Ken Blake]

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My cquestion is do I have to re-install xp on my hd if I
upgrade my mobo and cpu?

Probably not a full reinstallation. It's usually sufficient to do
just a repair installation.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

You might get away lucky. I've swapped out mobo/cpu and plug n play picked
it up OK. Still had to re-activate though. Anyway you might have to do a
Repair Install - See How To Run Repair Install
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm

 

[Bruce Chambers]

My cquestion is do I have to re-install xp on my hd if I
upgrade my mobo and cpu?

Normally, and assuming a retail license (many OEM installations
and licenses are not transferable to a new motherboard - check yours
before starting), unless the new motherboard is virtually identical
(same chipset, same IDE controllers, same BIOS version, etc.) to the
one on which the WinXP installation was originally performed, you'll
need to perform a repair (a.k.a. in-place upgrade) installation, at
the very least:

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341

The "why" is quite simple, really, and has nothing to do with
licensing issues, per se; it's a purely technical matter, at this
point. You've pulled the proverbial hardware rug out from under the
OS. (If you don't like -- or get -- the rug analogy, think of it as
picking up a Cape Cod style home and then setting it down onto a Ranch
style foundation. It just isn't going to fit.) WinXP, like Win2K
before it, is not nearly as "promiscuous" as Win9x when it comes to
accepting any old hardware configuration you throw at it. On
installation it "tailors" itself to the specific hardware found. This
is one of the reasons that the entire WinNT/2K/XP OS family is so much
more stable than the Win9x group.

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Bruce Chambers

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[Alex Nichol]

My cquestion is do I have to re-install xp on my hd if I
upgrade my mobo and cpu?

You need to do a repair reinstall to match the system to the revised
hardware. Set the BIOS to boot CD before Hard disk, then boot the XP
CD, start Setup (do not take 'Repair' at this stage), then after the
license agreement take 'Repair Installation'. This will retain your
existing software installations and most settings. But Updates will
have to be run again,
It is important to activate the basic XP Firewall before you ever
connect to the net to get the patches, so as to be protected against
things like the BLAST worm. So really I would have the SP2 CD to hand
and run it straight away before connecting at all

This should retain your activation status, though if you have never
registered you may have the setup suggest it now (don't bother). But
you may nevertheless find you have made so many changes that you need to
activate again by phoning in,

Always back up essential data before doing any major system operation
like this, if you are still in a position to do so