XP/upgrading

[Bill]

I am up grading my mother board & cpu.Can I transfer my
new XP to this upgraded system?Will I have to do somthing
to tell Microsoft I am switching?

 

[richard]

-----Original Message-----
I am up grading my mother board & cpu.Can I transfer my
new XP to this upgraded system?Will I have to do somthing
to tell Microsoft I am switching?
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you can try a repair install.

if that fails then you will have to clean install.

you will have to activate by phone and tell ms about the
change.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I am up grading my mother board & cpu.Can I transfer my
new XP to this upgraded system?Will I have to do somthing
to tell Microsoft I am switching?

After installing the new components. enter the BIOS setup to set
date/time and ensure that disks are detected. While there set the boot
order to CD before HD. Then boot the XP CD, start Setup (do not take
'Repair' at this stage), and 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.

This should retain your activation status, though if you have never
registered you may have the setup suggest it now (don't bother). But
you may nevertheless find you have made so many changes that you need to
activate again by phoning in, which is no big deal, but be aware it may
happen

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Normally, 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.

This may also require re-activation. 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.


Bruce Chambers

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