New Motherboard ABIT NF7 from ABIT KT7a-Raid

[andy]

When you change a major component xp needs to be recoved.
see knowledge base article 315341.
make sure you backup all the things you would miss first,
as this sometimes wipes info/files from your hard drive.
best of luck.

>-----Original Message-----
>I just purchased a new ABIT NF7 motherboard and AMD
>Athalon 2500 CPU. Pulled out my old motherboard etc.
>Reinstalled the new board. New board posts fine, and I
>can get to the BIOS set-up. However, when I restart the
>computer, I get a blue screen error message when it
>attempts to load WinXP Pro.
>
>I called ABIT Tech Support, and they of course told me
>that it's a software issue. I tested it with my old
>motherboard again, and didn't have a problem. Tech
>Support said something about the hardware environment
>needing to be changed somehow in Windows XP for the HDD
>to work with the new motherboard.
>
>Can anyone please help me with information on how to do
>this? I'm a relative block-head when it comes to this
>stuff, so please keep it in layman's terms.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Darren
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