New Motherboard..Now What!

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Hi On recommendations here my older motherboard went out of whack via
a bios update so I ordered a new one. What will I have to do to
recognize all my 3 hard drives and all my other cards and devices
when it comes in in about 2 days. Is it all Plug and detect. It is a
new motherboard coming with a 2.8 gig P4 Chip and many many features
for now and future. I am using my old case and all my old cards like
video, network, sound etc. Nick
 
For starters, I recommend booting the OS in Safe Mode the first time so it
can recognize all your hardware.

HTH
 
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| Hi On recommendations here my older motherboard went out of whack via
| a bios update so I ordered a new one. What will I have to do to
| recognize all my 3 hard drives and all my other cards and devices
| when it comes in in about 2 days. Is it all Plug and detect. It is a
| new motherboard coming with a 2.8 gig P4 Chip and many many features
| for now and future. I am using my old case and all my old cards like
| video, network, sound etc. Nick
 
I suggest only installing the minimum devices that you need
to have to run the computer. Reinstall (repair the Windows
installation ) and then install the hardware that is sitting
on your bench.


| For starters, I recommend booting the OS in Safe Mode the
first time so it
| can recognize all your hardware.
|
| HTH
|
|
| | > Hi On recommendations here my older motherboard went out
of whack via
| > a bios update so I ordered a new one. What will I have
to do to
| > recognize all my 3 hard drives and all my other cards
and devices
| > when it comes in in about 2 days. Is it all Plug and
detect. It is a
| > new motherboard coming with a 2.8 gig P4 Chip and many
many features
| > for now and future. I am using my old case and all my
old cards like
| > video, network, sound etc. Nick
|
|
 
For starters, I recommend booting the OS in Safe Mode the first time so it
can recognize all your hardware.

HTH
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On the operating Sysytem. My main drive I formatted and wiped it clean
for a fresh start and am going to install XP Home on again. Now what
on this circumstance. Nick
 
if your hard drive is formated just assemble your
hardware on the new board and install xp from the cd.
if you put everything togather correctly it will be easy.
i have done this many times.
if you already had an install of xp on the hard drive
then it is a little more complicated but not much.
i would only connect the cables to the drive that you
want xp installed on. that way there is no danger of
messing up the data on your other drives.
after you have the comp up and running you can then
install the other drives.
don
 
Greetings --

Normally, and assuming a retail license (many OEM licenses are not
transferable to a new motherboard), unless your motherboard is
virtually identical (same chipset, same IDE controllers, same BIOS
version, etc.) to the one on which the other 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

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

This will also 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.


Bruce Chambers

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Greetings --

Normally, and assuming a retail license (many OEM licenses are not
transferable to a new motherboard), unless your motherboard is
virtually identical (same chipset, same IDE controllers, same BIOS
version, etc.) to the one on which the other 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

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

This will also 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.


Bruce Chambers
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Bruce, This is a retail version and again the hard drive was formatted
prior to taking the motherboard out. I could not install XP on it with
the old mixed up cmos and bios apparently. So asuming the motherboard
recognizes all my hardware and should then all I have to do is put XP
disk abd away I go to installgand then reactivate you said. Nick
 
doglover said:
Bruce, This is a retail version and again the hard drive was formatted
prior to taking the motherboard out. I could not install XP on it with
the old mixed up cmos and bios apparently. So asuming the motherboard
recognizes all my hardware and should then all I have to do is put XP
disk abd away I go to installgand then reactivate you said. Nick
Click to expand...

Boot from the XP CD and do a clean install.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
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