New Motherboard

[jll]

Hi,
I want to make the switch from a P III to an AMD Sempron mobo. I want to
keep my HDD as is. I plan to keep the peripheral installation to a bare
minimum until I'm sure the HDD wakes up OK in its new home. Will this work?
Thanks,
jll
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[troll finder 2005]

Hi,
I want to make the switch from a P III to an AMD Sempron mobo. I want to
keep my HDD as is. I plan to keep the peripheral installation to a bare
minimum until I'm sure the HDD wakes up OK in its new home. Will this work?
Thanks,
jll
addy is fake

yes you can keep the HD but you will have to reinstall windows because the
drivers installed will not be compatible with your new comp setup,
if you try to reboot off the old windows you will get lots of problems

 

[pcbutts1]

A strait switch over no. You will have to boot from your Windows XP cd and
do a repair install but that still may not work.

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[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

You will need to do a repair installation with the new hardware in place.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

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[Bruce Chambers]

Hi,
I want to make the switch from a P III to an AMD Sempron mobo. I want to
keep my HDD as is. I plan to keep the peripheral installation to a bare
minimum until I'm sure the HDD wakes up OK in its new home. Will this work?
Thanks,
jll
addy is fake

Normally, and assuming a retail license (many 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

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.



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[peterk]

Other people already mentioned the repair installation I wish to mention the
mobo drivers will be different.
After the repair installation run the CD that came with your new
motherboard.
peterk

 

[Guest]

Some folks on another board that I frequent have had success with this method.

Before shutting down the old system for the last time:

Remove all hardware that you don't absolutely need - then uninstall
everything that you can (except for the items that will stay the same) in
Device Manager. Then shut down.

Assemble the new system and boot, letting Windows detect all the hardware
that you uninstalled. Then you may have to do a repair install after that.

Good Luck!

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Hi,
I want to make the switch from a P III to an AMD Sempron mobo. I want to
keep my HDD as is. I plan to keep the peripheral installation to a bare
minimum until I'm sure the HDD wakes up OK in its new home. Will this
work?

After you boot from CD and do a repair install, it should be fine. If you
don't do the repair install, things will likely *not* be fine.

HTH

-pk

 

[jll]

Hi,
I want to make the switch from a P III to an AMD Sempron mobo. I want to
keep my HDD as is. I plan to keep the peripheral installation to a bare
minimum until I'm sure the HDD wakes up OK in its new home. Will this
work?
Thanks,
jll
addy is fake

Thanks for all the great advice. I now know what I need to do to make it
work.
Thanks again,
jll