Upgrading a motherboard

[Lester]

Is it possible that Microsoft would design an OS that
prevents us from ugrading a motherboard and processor? I
cannot get my new upgrade to work which was installed on a
hard drive on an older Motherboard/processor. Is there any
way to do this?

[Kevin M]

"Lester" > wrote in message
...
| Is it possible that Microsoft would design an OS that
| prevents us from ugrading a motherboard and processor? I
| cannot get my new upgrade to work which was installed on a
| hard drive on an older Motherboard/processor. Is there any
| way to do this?

Boot from the XP CD and choose the second Repair option.

Kev

[Jim Macklin]

Just do a reinstall of the OS. During installation, the
correct drivers for the motherboard/CPU are loaded.
Swapping components only work with identical components.

Windows XP sees the changed hardware as being installed on a
new (second computer) and it won't boot...but you can
reinstall and reactivate without any problems.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q315341&ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341


"Lester" > wrote in message
...
| Is it possible that Microsoft would design an OS that
| prevents us from ugrading a motherboard and processor? I
| cannot get my new upgrade to work which was installed on a
| hard drive on an older Motherboard/processor. Is there any
| way to do this?

[Ron Martell]

"Lester" > wrote:

>Is it possible that Microsoft would design an OS that
>prevents us from ugrading a motherboard and processor? I
>cannot get my new upgrade to work which was installed on a
>hard drive on an older Motherboard/processor. Is there any
>way to do this?

With a motherboard replacement you need to do a Repair Install of Windows
XP so as to get the appropriate drivers and configuration settings into
place.

See http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm for detailed
instructions.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

[Steve C. Ray]

Lester, do a repair install as directed by Ron. That way you won't loose
your data.

--
Steve C. Ray
Replace "mail" with "36db"
"Ron Martell" > wrote in message
...
> "Lester" > wrote:
>
> >Is it possible that Microsoft would design an OS that
> >prevents us from ugrading a motherboard and processor? I
> >cannot get my new upgrade to work which was installed on a
> >hard drive on an older Motherboard/processor. Is there any
> >way to do this?
>
> With a motherboard replacement you need to do a Repair Install of Windows
> XP so as to get the appropriate drivers and configuration settings into
> place.
>
> See http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm for detailed
> instructions.
>
> Good luck
>
>
> Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
> --
> Microsoft MVP
> On-Line Help Computer Service
> http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
>
> "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."