New Motherboard

[Jeff]

I installed a new motherboard in my computer and the Hard
drive has WinXP Pro on it, booted up but windows will not
start even in safe modes! i put the old motheboard back
in and it loads windows fine. Do i need to uninstall all
the hardware first before i put in the new motherboard?
Or what. I'v tried almost everything and cant get it to
work with the new mobo. Please Help Me!

[Mark S.]

"Jeff" > wrote in message
...
> I installed a new motherboard in my computer and the Hard
> drive has WinXP Pro on it, booted up but windows will not
> start even in safe modes! i put the old motheboard back
> in and it loads windows fine. Do i need to uninstall all
> the hardware first before i put in the new motherboard?
> Or what. I'v tried almost everything and cant get it to
> work with the new mobo. Please Help Me!

This might help:

"How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XP"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315341)

MarkS

[Jim Macklin]

You must do a reinstall of Windows so the information on the
hard drive is correct for the new motherboard, which may be
of a different manufacture, chipset, CPU and even memory.

These are the instructions...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q315341&ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341

You will reactivate, if it has been more than 120 since your
previous activation, it will do so on-line, if less time,
you'll be prompted to make a 800 phone call.

It is often a good idea to remove printers, add-in cards and
such when installing so the OS can get the basics done, then
add those devices back one at a time so IF there are
problems you know which device is causing the problem.


"Jeff" > wrote in message
...
| I installed a new motherboard in my computer and the Hard
| drive has WinXP Pro on it, booted up but windows will not
| start even in safe modes! i put the old motheboard back
| in and it loads windows fine. Do i need to uninstall all
| the hardware first before i put in the new motherboard?
| Or what. I'v tried almost everything and cant get it to
| work with the new mobo. Please Help Me!