Replacing a bad mother board without losing Win XP?

[Gerry]

Help!!! The mother board in my computer fried. I have
placed a new one in but XP keeps saying that someone is
trying to reconfigure our BIOs and shuts down. You were
able to go into SAFE MODE with Win98 and delete all the
drivers and do a NEW HARDWARE search to get the system
back up but XP won't let you. A computer store told me
there is no way to get around this and all info on the
hard drive is losed because you have to do a complete
hard drive format and system install. I need this info.
Any one have any suggestions???

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| Help!!! The mother board in my computer fried. I have
| placed a new one in but XP keeps saying that someone is
| trying to reconfigure our BIOs and shuts down. You were
| able to go into SAFE MODE with Win98 and delete all the
| drivers and do a NEW HARDWARE search to get the system
| back up but XP won't let you. A computer store told me
| there is no way to get around this and all info on the
| hard drive is losed because you have to do a complete
| hard drive format and system install. I need this info.
| Any one have any suggestions???

 

[Jim Macklin]

Carey Frisch answers your question, but to be clear, all you
need to do is a "inplace or repair install" and your data
and such should be safe, only the new drivers you need will
be installed.
see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q315341&ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341


message | Help!!! The mother board in my computer fried. I have
| placed a new one in but XP keeps saying that someone is
| trying to reconfigure our BIOs and shuts down. You were
| able to go into SAFE MODE with Win98 and delete all the
| drivers and do a NEW HARDWARE search to get the system
| back up but XP won't let you. A computer store told me
| there is no way to get around this and all info on the
| hard drive is losed because you have to do a complete
| hard drive format and system install. I need this info.
| Any one have any suggestions???

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Normally, and assuming either a retail license or a generic
(non-branded) OEM license, unless the new motherboard is virtually
identical to the old one (same chipset, same IDE controllers, same
BIOS version, etc.), 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.


Bruce Chambers

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[Steve C. Ray]

In addition to what Jim said, you also need to find a new computer store.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Help!!! The mother board in my computer fried. I have
placed a new one in but XP keeps saying that someone is
trying to reconfigure our BIOs and shuts down.

You should do a repair re-install. 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, especially SP1;
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.