new mobo and processor

[Tommy Forsman]

My mobo and processor is faulty so I need a new one.
If I install a new mobo and an AMD processor (have P4 today) and intend to
use my old harddrive with XP.
Do I then have to reinstall XP?
If yes, is it any better if change to Intel Celeron or P4?

Tomppa

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

My mobo and processor is faulty so I need a new one.
If I install a new mobo and an AMD processor (have P4 today) and
intend to use my old harddrive with XP.
Do I then have to reinstall XP?

You will have to do at least a repair installation. See "How to Perform a
Windows XP Repair Install"
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Occasionally that isn't sufficient, and a complete clean reinstallation is
required.

If yes, is it any better if change to Intel Celeron or P4?

It has nothing to do with whether or not you will need to reinstall, but a
P4 is faster (as well as more expensive) than a Celeron of the same speed
rating.

 

[Guest]

You will need to do a repair install of Win XP. If the installed XP is at
SP2 you will need to slipstream SP2 into your XP before doing the repair
install.

 

[Donny Broome]

AMD chips are outperforming Intel chips at every level these days. They're
also less expensive!

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[Bruce Chambers]

My mobo and processor is faulty so I need a new one.
If I install a new mobo and an AMD processor (have P4 today) and intend to
use my old harddrive with XP.
Do I then have to reinstall XP?

Normally, and assuming a retail license (many factory-installed OEM
installations are BIOS-locked to a specific chipset and therefore *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

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

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.

As always when undertaking such a significant change, back up any
important data before starting.

This will also probably require re-activation, unless you have a
Volume Licensed version of WinXP Pro installed. If it's been more than
120 days since you last activated that specific Product Key, you'll most
likely be able to activate via the Internet without problem. If it's
been less, you might have to make a 5 minute phone call.

If yes, is it any better if change to Intel Celeron or P4?

The Celeron is Intel's low-end (cheaper, and slower) CPU. For the best
performance for the money, go with AMD.


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[Guest]

Thanks all for your answers. Now I know what I am facing.

Tomppa

 

[sumukh001]

Check out Mobo & processor installation artciles.

http://www.cheapest-computer-hardware-software.com/install_motherboard.html

http://www.cheapest-computer-hardware-software.com/build-pc2.html

regards

Sumukh

 

[Guest]

FYI

I replaced my MSI mobo with a ASUS mobo today. I just my old P4 3Ghz
processor and I didnt needed to reinstall or even repair XP. Just plug and
play.

This time I was lucky

Tomppa

 

[SamP]

Don't you need to buy another copy of XP or a new licence? You have a new
motherboard and MS have changed the EULA.

See http://www.flexbeta.net/main/comments.php?id=18469&catid=5

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Don't you need to buy another copy of XP or a new licence?

No, of course not. There's absolutely nothing in *any* of Microsoft's
EULAs that prohibits repairing or upgrading a computer by replacing a
component, even the motherboard.

You have a new
motherboard and MS have changed the EULA.

Have they? Can you prove that assertion? To date, no one else has
been able to produce *any* official Microsoft documentation to
substantiate such a claim. Have you seen a new EULA? And even if
Microsoft does rewrite the EULA that ships with future copies of the OS,
it would have no affect upon the OP's rights under the old EULA that
came with his copy of the OS. Additionally, if the OP has a retail
license, any alleged new restrictions to the OEM EULA would also be
irrelevant.

See http://www.flexbeta.net/main/comments.php?id=18469&catid=5

Nothing but FUD, deliberately trying to cause unnecessary alarm by
claiming (without *any* substantiation) that the terms of the Systems
Builders License apply to the End Users License. The two are very
different items.



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