joe bp
December 7th 03, 09:42 AM
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a PIII 1-GHz machine with 512 ram running XP home
>edition... Not the fastests of hardware/OS
>configurations, so I decided to invest in some new
>hardware.
>
>I purchased a new ASUS motherboard and XP 2500 processor
>combo with 1 gig of ram... After spending some time
>swapping out the hardware, I was ready for the
impressive
>moment of electronic speed... i got anything but...
>
>What I got was a blue screen of death upon boot saying
>that it suspected a virus and halted the system to
>protect things... Not to be detered, I setup the old
>motherboard, cpu and memory on the table with an old
>power supply... connected the same harddrive that had
>just given me the error and booted. I chose the 'boot
>normal' option when it came up and waa-laa... everything
>fine... So, I uninstalled the virus software...
>
>I hooked the harddrive back to the new hardware and got
>the same thing... blue screen saying it had a problem
and
>was halting.
>
>I suspected that XP was hooked into the hardware, but I
>didn't think it was that tight. I have a valid ownership
>key but have yet to find a place to tell XP to work with
>the new hardware. I do not want to loose all my settings
>by having to install the OS again.
>
>Does anyone know how to upgrade hardware with an XP
>operating system? Is there special things I have to do?
I
>can't find anything on the subject... I'm sure Microsoft
>is just trying to control piracy, but I would hate to
>think they would suppress hardware upgrades because of
>such...
>
>Any help greatly appreciated.... Scotty
>.
>Hi its your mother board brotha hint. its not configured
to the new board. the re are a few possiblities. you can
buy the windows xp software reload in a new drive then u
will be up and running its better any way get a 7200 rpm
ata 133 drive the one you re tryin to put in there is
probably a 5400rpm old jolopy kiddin if you allready have
a copy just back up youre files and reload it. then
switch drives there is software that comes with the new
drive to copy from one to the other. depends which ones
look up maxtor then find the install intructions i think
its called maxtor 3 or something. uninstall ur remove
antivirus software. i ve done this a few times so if you
need help just email me i have lots of hints etc ok
>I have a PIII 1-GHz machine with 512 ram running XP home
>edition... Not the fastests of hardware/OS
>configurations, so I decided to invest in some new
>hardware.
>
>I purchased a new ASUS motherboard and XP 2500 processor
>combo with 1 gig of ram... After spending some time
>swapping out the hardware, I was ready for the
impressive
>moment of electronic speed... i got anything but...
>
>What I got was a blue screen of death upon boot saying
>that it suspected a virus and halted the system to
>protect things... Not to be detered, I setup the old
>motherboard, cpu and memory on the table with an old
>power supply... connected the same harddrive that had
>just given me the error and booted. I chose the 'boot
>normal' option when it came up and waa-laa... everything
>fine... So, I uninstalled the virus software...
>
>I hooked the harddrive back to the new hardware and got
>the same thing... blue screen saying it had a problem
and
>was halting.
>
>I suspected that XP was hooked into the hardware, but I
>didn't think it was that tight. I have a valid ownership
>key but have yet to find a place to tell XP to work with
>the new hardware. I do not want to loose all my settings
>by having to install the OS again.
>
>Does anyone know how to upgrade hardware with an XP
>operating system? Is there special things I have to do?
I
>can't find anything on the subject... I'm sure Microsoft
>is just trying to control piracy, but I would hate to
>think they would suppress hardware upgrades because of
>such...
>
>Any help greatly appreciated.... Scotty
>.
>Hi its your mother board brotha hint. its not configured
to the new board. the re are a few possiblities. you can
buy the windows xp software reload in a new drive then u
will be up and running its better any way get a 7200 rpm
ata 133 drive the one you re tryin to put in there is
probably a 5400rpm old jolopy kiddin if you allready have
a copy just back up youre files and reload it. then
switch drives there is software that comes with the new
drive to copy from one to the other. depends which ones
look up maxtor then find the install intructions i think
its called maxtor 3 or something. uninstall ur remove
antivirus software. i ve done this a few times so if you
need help just email me i have lots of hints etc ok