XP won't boot after hardware upgrade

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I just replaced my Athlon XP cpu/motherboard/memory with a new P4 3.0 HyperThreading and two 256 Mb chips installed as shown in the motherboard manual ...

Now XP won't boot ... it reboots about 2 seconds after the BIOS screen disappears ... it then shows the Last Known Good screen ... won't boot using any of the options (EVEN SAFE MODE) ..

How can I repair this ??? Anyone else experience similar problems? I really don't want to re-install the OS because it takes weeks to get it back to my settings. Thanks

 

[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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|I just replaced my Athlon XP cpu/motherboard/memory with a new P4 3.0 HyperThreading and two 256 Mb chips
installed as shown in the motherboard manual ...
|
| Now XP won't boot ... it reboots about 2 seconds after the BIOS screen disappears ... it then shows the Last
Known Good screen ... won't boot using any of the options (EVEN SAFE MODE) ...
|
| How can I repair this ??? Anyone else experience similar problems? I really don't want to re-install the OS
because it takes weeks to get it back to my settings. Thanks

 

[Jym]

If you have a retail or a oem copy of XP with repair install option , this
will fix your problem and still maintain program , files , and settings. Jym

I just replaced my Athlon XP cpu/motherboard/memory with a new P4 3.0

HyperThreading and two 256 Mb chips installed as shown in the motherboard
manual ...

Now XP won't boot ... it reboots about 2 seconds after the BIOS screen

disappears ... it then shows the Last Known Good screen ... won't boot using
any of the options (EVEN SAFE MODE) ...

How can I repair this ??? Anyone else experience similar problems? I

really don't want to re-install the OS because it takes weeks to get it back
to my settings. Thanks

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Normally, and assuming a retail license (many OEM licenses are not
transferable to a new motherboard), unless your motherboard is
virtually identical (same chipset, same IDE controllers, same BIOS
version, etc.) to the one on which the other 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

As always when undertaking such a significant change, back up any
important data before starting.

This will 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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