upgrade issue not found in KB

[Guest]

I am tring to upgrade my computer to XP home ed. but having a striange issue.
I had an old 400 celeron system that would not allow me to install XP due to
a Highpoint DMA controller blocking issue on my Abit 6 Mo Bo. I have since
upgraded my main computer (p4 3.0ghz) and now want to install XP on my middle
computer (p4 1.6ghz) which was used as an XP machine before. (BTW - I did
buy another XP home upgrade) For some strainge reason the XP install is still
"seeing" my old DMA controller even though in is not connected to this
machine anymore. The only things that came over from the celeron machine is
the harddrive, video card and NIC. When I moved over the harddrive I just
installed the new drivers and was good to go but I am now having this issue.
I'm guessing I will have to do a fresh install but wanted to toss it out and
see if any other folks incountered this.

 

[Grant Robertson]

I am tring to upgrade my computer to XP home ed. but having a striange issue.
I had an old 400 celeron system that would not allow me to install XP due to
a Highpoint DMA controller blocking issue on my Abit 6 Mo Bo. I have since
upgraded my main computer (p4 3.0ghz) and now want to install XP on my middle
computer (p4 1.6ghz) which was used as an XP machine before. (BTW - I did
buy another XP home upgrade) For some strainge reason the XP install is still
"seeing" my old DMA controller even though in is not connected to this
machine anymore. The only things that came over from the celeron machine is
the harddrive, video card and NIC. When I moved over the harddrive I just
installed the new drivers and was good to go but I am now having this issue.
I'm guessing I will have to do a fresh install but wanted to toss it out and
see if any other folks incountered this.

From your message it is hard to tell what combinations of paired MB's and
HDD's you have attempted upgrade installations on and which HDD's with
installed OS's you have attempted to connect to which new MB's. But I can
tell you one thing for sure. All experts agree that it is not wise to
take a HDD with ANY OS installed on it and just connect it to a new MB.
Even if you install the new drivers it will rarely be stable. You may
have lucked out once but luck was about all there was to it.

You are going to be much better off if you reformat and reinstall Windows
from scratch.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

The problem is simple. When you moved the hard drive you took with it the
image of the hardware (called the hardware abstraction layer) from the old
computer.

All you need to do is a repair install of Windows so that the hardware
abstraction layer matches the machine the hard drive is now attached to.
After doing a repair install you will need to update Windows again.

repair install
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341

If you get a message that the version of Windows on the system is more
recent than the one on the cd, post back for instructions on making a
slipstreamed copy of XP.