Upgrade PC's.

[Tuan]

I'm upgraded my old P3-1Gig. PC's to a P4-2.66Gig. with the Intel P4 main board, but I can't make my old XP pro hd to boot with the new main board?

[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
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Windows XP - Shell/User

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"Tuan" > wrote in message:
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| I'm upgraded my old P3-1Gig. PC's to a P4-2.66Gig. with the Intel P4 main board, but I can't make my old XP
pro hd to boot with the new main board?

[Wolfman]

Hello tuan,

With windows activation you can install it on one computer. When you activate it reads three peices of hardware and stores it in a file. You can change two of the three, but when you change all three you have to activate it again. You have to call Microsof
t and tell them that you upgraded and they will fix it for you.

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Normally, assuming a retail 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.

This will probably 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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"Tuan" > wrote in message
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> I'm upgraded my old P3-1Gig. PC's to a P4-2.66Gig. with the Intel P4
main board, but I can't make my old XP pro hd to boot with the new
main board?

[Gary Tait]

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:41:08 -0800, "Wolfman"
> wrote:

>Hello tuan,
>
>With windows activation you can install it on one computer.
>When you activate it reads three peices of hardware and stores it in a
>file. You can change two of the three, but when you change all three
>you have to activate it again. You have to call Microsoft and tell
>them that you upgraded and they will fix it for you.

Windows activation will not prevent the low level booting of an OS.
You will have to deal with activation later on in the upgrade process.
If the Activation system has been triggered by "too many" hardware
changes, it will say so.

Gesides, your description of activation is way off base.

[Alex Nichol]

Tuan wrote:

>I'm upgraded my old P3-1Gig. PC's to a P4-2.66Gig. with the Intel P4 main board, but I can't make my old XP pro hd to boot with the new main board?

After such an upgrade you should do a repair reinstallation, so that the
system is correctly matched to the new hardware.

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.

You may then find you have made so many changes that you need to
reactivate by phoning in


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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows - File Systems)
Bournemouth, U.K.