Trouble with new MOBO & CPU

[Uncle Grumpy]

I have heard very few people that have been able to swap mainboards on
an XP install.

No problem here at all. I built an entirely NEW desktop computer a
few months ago, cloned the 30G drive in my old system (vintage 12/99)
to a 120G drive (because I didn't want to lose a bunch of programs I
could probably never reinstall), installed the 120G drive in the new
system, did a repair install.

Everything has been great from day one.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

That is just plain wrong, works fine most of the time.

AGREED

 

[proph3t]

Beware of DaveW who is infamous for claiming you can't do

anything but a clean installation. A clean installation is
only necessary from lack of ability to get it to work any
other way... which can be a point one comes to, but as a
rule it is untrue.- Hide quoted text -

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I feel bad working as a tech i would usually do clean installs to spit
out systens quicker... or make myself look better

 

[proph3t]

Interesting...Noone told me that before.

Okay will do

DONT LISTEN TO DAVEW's horse shit.

proph3t
computer technician/slacker

 

[proph3t]

Interesting...Noone told me that before.

Okay will do

AND i got my A+ so you better listen to me.

LOL

 

[kony]

I feel bad working as a tech i would usually do clean installs to spit
out systens quicker... or make myself look better

Sometimes a clean install is necessary to correct a problem,
but when the expressed goal is to preserve the OS
installation and apps, just to get the new board working,
there is good reason to do the least intrusive things first.

 

[sdlomi2]

Put the drive back in the original system, then,
http://www.mostlycreativeworkshop.com/article11.html

http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Articles&go=read&arc_id=36

Doing the repair install might've messed it up too much to
do either of the above, this I can't know. If you had a
backup of your OS installation prior to the repair install
you ought to restore that first, or clone a 2nd HDD from it
and try the migration on that copy of the OS.

Beware of DaveW who is infamous for claiming you can't do
anything but a clean installation. A clean installation is
only necessary from lack of ability to get it to work any
other way... which can be a point one comes to, but as a
rule it is untrue.

Kony, knowing how Jethro would prefer retaining old data, applications,
etc., why can't he install a new harddrive, jumper/format/install it as
master, and jumper/hang the old one as slave to the new one? Naturally,
he'd boot thru new hd, but then could access "old" hd with applications kept
in tact? Seems I remember doing similar on older systems using Win 98 and
maybe as long ago as Win 95. Hopefully he's got email addys and i'net
bookmarks backed up on external media. (I may learn that what I did will
not work, but since I didn't know better, it did so anyhow?!) Yes, I'm
trying to learn too. s

 

[Noozer]

Kony, knowing how Jethro would prefer retaining old data, applications,

etc., why can't he install a new harddrive, jumper/format/install it as
master, and jumper/hang the old one as slave to the new one?

This works well as long as you remember not to connect the old drive until
after the installation is complete.

Naturally, he'd boot thru new hd, but then could access "old" hd with
applications kept in tact?

Nope... Applications won't work from the old drive. That software will need
to be reinstalled, but all the data would be there.

 

[kony]

Kony, knowing how Jethro would prefer retaining old data, applications,
etc., why can't he install a new harddrive, jumper/format/install it as
master, and jumper/hang the old one as slave to the new one? Naturally,
he'd boot thru new hd, but then could access "old" hd with applications kept
in tact? Seems I remember doing similar on older systems using Win 98 and
maybe as long ago as Win 95. Hopefully he's got email addys and i'net
bookmarks backed up on external media. (I may learn that what I did will
not work, but since I didn't know better, it did so anyhow?!) Yes, I'm
trying to learn too. s

Ok, yes that's possible too, but the goal was to continue
using the present Windows installation as it was, or at
least as close to that as possible, just changed to
accomodate the new hardware.

 

[Don Burnette]

Thought I would report back on my results, for those that may be interested.

Yesterday, I upgraded my system, from an Athlon X2 4400+ socket 939 on an
MSI K8N Neo4 Plat mb, to the following:

Intel Core2 Duo 6600
EVGA 680i SLI socket 775 mb
2gb Corsair XMS2 ddr2 pc8500 ram
Zalman 9700 NT cooler

Kept my existing:
Saphire Radeon X850XT PCIe video card
Soundblaster XFi soundcard
2 ea WD 250 gb sata hard drives


Following the process I outlined below, I was able to successfully do a
repair install, of XP Pro, retaining all my existing settings and program
files. Obviously, much faster than reformatting and doing a clean install. I
have no conflicts or problem areas showing in device manager, and
performance on this sytem is incredible.

The only very minor glitches I ran into, I had to re-activate my XP Pro
install - went over the internet just fine - and of course, download and
install all updates since SP2 ( app 70 of them ). MY AVG anti-virus,
prompted me to re-enter my registration code, which went fine.

I did take all necessary precautions, and was prepared should I have to do a
clean install., by backing up my system, creating an image on an external
usb hard drive, and backing up my settings using the File and Settings
Transfer wizard, as a just in case. I highly recommend this to anyone
attempting to do a repair install in case things do go south.

Anyway, yes, by taking all precautions and being careful, it can be done.
The biggest thing, is to not let the new mb boot into your old XP install ,
immediately boot from the XP cd and do the repair install.

Hope this info is helpful to some,

 

[sdlomi2]

Ok, yes that's possible too, but the goal was to continue
using the present Windows installation as it was, or at
least as close to that as possible, just changed to
accomodate the new hardware.

Thx to you, Koby, and Noozer for clarification. s