New motherboard question

[Vassik]

I am planning to upgrade the motherboard and memory (all other hardware will
remain the same)
My question is what should I do prior to the upgrade to prepare and make the
transition to the new motherboard as smooth as possible? I have Windows XP
Home and .... I'd rather not reinstall everything.
Thanks so much for any feedback and or direction.

 

[peter]

With such a major change you will need to do a repair installation of XP to
correct the HAL or you will not be able to boot into XP.
XP REPAIR
.............................................................................

Boot from the CD or you can insert the CD while at the windows desktop but
when the setup screen appears, exit setup and reboot. If your system is set
to be able to boot from the CD, it should detect the disk and give a brief
message, during the boot up, if you wish to boot from the CD press any key.

Once you have pressed a key, setup should begin. You will see a reference
asking if you need to load special drivers and another notice that if you
wish to begin the ASR (Automatic Recovery Console) depress F2. Just let
setup run past all of that. It will continue to load files and drivers.

Then it will bring you to a screen. Eventually, you will come to a screen
with the option to (1) setup Windows or (2) Repair Windows Installation
using the Recovery console.

The first option, to setup Windows is the one you want and requires you to
press enter. When asked, press F8 to accept the end user agreement. Setup
will then search for previous versions of Windows. Upon finding your
version, it will ask if you wish to Repair your current installation or
install fresh. Press R, that will run a repair installation. From there
on, follow the screens.

this worked
peter

 

[kurttrail]

I am planning to upgrade the motherboard and memory (all other
hardware will remain the same)
My question is what should I do prior to the upgrade to prepare and
make the transition to the new motherboard as smooth as possible? I
have Windows XP Home and .... I'd rather not reinstall everything.
Thanks so much for any feedback and or direction.

You might get lucky and not even have to do a repair install after
upgrading your hardware, *BUT* plan as if you gonna have to do a clean
install, just in case. Back up everything! That way, in case sh*t
happens, you'll won't be that f*cked.

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[Willit]

Make the swap and do a repair install.

http://michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

 

[Vassik]

Thanks so much I really do appreciate all the help. Very kind of everyone.

 

[Guest]

My suggestion will be a clean install but to save your
files and setings do a backup. U can use the xp feature
file transfer. and save then to a floopy disk and cd-r/cd-
rw or a dvd ram

 

[Gary]

I'm a little surprised at the overwhelming "do a repair install" answers.
Though I haven't had occasion to do it with XP (yet), I've done numerous
hardware swaps with 98 and ME and sat and watched as it detected and
installed the new hardware without a hitch, with a few reboots. (by
"hardware" I mean motherboards, at least) In fact, our "household" machine
has WinME installed that was installed clean in June 2000 and went through a
full motherboard replacement with completely different controllers/chipsets,
not to mention all the other gear that's been replaced or upgraded and
several copies to newer bigger hard drives.. It still runs smoothly without
problems, with no repair installs. I'd generally boot to safe mode and
remove any duplicate or old device manager entries after the hardware swaps,
but that's generally been about it.

I've even installed ME on a hard drive in one machine, then moved the drive
to an entirely different machine, again no problems to speak of.

So is XP not as good in this respect...have you all had it bite the dust in
such instances...or are these just good precautionary warnings? I suppose
there's no harm in reinstalling, but I've always reserved that for difficult
problems that can't be resolved any other way. Just want to know what I may
be in for should problems occur.

Gary

 

[Mark]

I too am planning on replacing my motherboard and/or
processor, my question is this:

I have XP HE OEM with the resore image on a hidden
partition - yeah I know, bad move but it's done now!

I've had the PC 2 years, but during the 1st year my mobo
died, it was replaced under warranty, but my PC supplier
couldn't get the same model mobo that died, so gave me the
next model up (stroke of luck!). The engineer told me after
this that my pc was no longer 'BIOS locked'.

Where do I stand about upgrading? Obviously I cannot
perform a repair install, but I can restore to factory
settings if I have to.

TIA

Mark

 

[Michael Stevens]

I'm a little surprised at the overwhelming "do a repair install"
answers. Though I haven't had occasion to do it with XP (yet), I've
done numerous hardware swaps with 98 and ME and sat and watched as it
detected and installed the new hardware without a hitch, with a few
reboots. (by "hardware" I mean motherboards, at least) In fact,
our "household" machine has WinME installed that was installed clean
in June 2000 and went through a full motherboard replacement with
completely different controllers/chipsets, not to mention all the
other gear that's been replaced or upgraded and several copies to
newer bigger hard drives.. It still runs smoothly without problems,
with no repair installs. I'd generally boot to safe mode and remove
any duplicate or old device manager entries after the hardware swaps,
but that's generally been about it.

I've even installed ME on a hard drive in one machine, then moved the
drive to an entirely different machine, again no problems to speak of.

So is XP not as good in this respect...have you all had it bite the
dust in such instances...or are these just good precautionary
warnings? I suppose there's no harm in reinstalling, but I've always
reserved that for difficult problems that can't be resolved any other
way. Just want to know what I may be in for should problems occur.

Gary

Completely different platform, and more sensitive to hardware changes. So
you are very much at risk of losing the ability to recover if the first boot
goes bad. I have found that you can rebuild the old system and reboot the
XP partition to set XP back to square one. Then the repair install will
work.

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[kurttrail]

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ever and ever! Amen!"

I too am planning on replacing my motherboard and/or
processor, my question is this:

I have XP HE OEM with the resore image on a hidden
partition - yeah I know, bad move but it's done now!

I've had the PC 2 years, but during the 1st year my mobo
died, it was replaced under warranty, but my PC supplier
couldn't get the same model mobo that died, so gave me the
next model up (stroke of luck!). The engineer told me after
this that my pc was no longer 'BIOS locked'.

Where do I stand about upgrading? Obviously I cannot
perform a repair install, but I can restore to factory
settings if I have to.

Well, it sounds as if you PC supplier broke MS's OEM post-EULA policy
that the installation is tied to the motherboard. According to MS, if
you change you Motherboard, and you have an OEM copy installed on your
computer, your license to use XP is dead, and you have to buy a new
license. But the only way has of finding out is if you actually tell
them during a PA phone call, so all you have to tell them is that you
did a major upgrade, but not bringing up the exact hardware changed.

As for your hidden partition, just find a friend that has an OEM copy of
XP, burn a copy of it, and use the Product Key that came with your
computer. A retail copy of XP won't work with your Product Key. Then
you should be able to do a repair install.

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[Yves Leclerc]

The restore image will not be helpful for you. It would be "BIOS Locked" to
your old motherboard and may not understand your new motherboard. Your
only option is to get a full Retail package of XP..

Y.

 

[kurttrail]

By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"

The restore image will not be helpful for you. It would be "BIOS
Locked" to your old motherboard and may not understand your new
motherboard. Your only option is to get a full Retail package of XP..

There are many ways to skin a cat. And it's as easy as burning a copy
of an OEM CD from a friend and using the OEM Product Key that came with
the computer.

Only a MS shareholder, or an absolute moron would think that paying more
money for yet another copy of XP is the "only option." A fool and his
money are soon parted when you give credence to MS's post-EULA policies!

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