Dan T.
December 8th 03, 07:57 PM
sorry this is gonna be a long explanation to the problem.
i have had a similar problem when upgrading motherboards.
i went from a compaq p3 with xp on it and i took out the
hard drive from it and put it in my new system which is
an asus p4s333 with ddr pc2100 512 mb. i can actually get
into windows and everything, but when i start playing
some games, for some reason, they tend to freeze up. i
couldn't figure out the problem until i realized that the
drivers installed for my previous motherboard are
attempting to run on my new one which is laid out
differently and uses different drivers. i had to delete
my windows folder and start from scratch. i installed
windows 95 through a series of floppy disk and when that
installation was done, i upgraded back to my xp. when i
finished though. i couldn't reinstall service packs or
even download them because microsoft thinks i installed
xp onto another computer. i was so angry and couldn't
talk to support because as you know it costs 99 dollars
or even 245 dollars to do so. i had to purchase a brand
new xp this time a home edition and installed it and it
worked perfectly on my computer. no more problems. but as
time goes along, technology improves and i want to
upgrade. The problem seems to lie within what driver is
running the motherboard. if it's the right driver it
seems to work ok. if i want to upgrade to a better
motherboard i'll have to reinstall windows xp so it
configures itself to my new motherboard. This rises a new
question. is it possible to do so without it thinking
that i have pirated it? i would like to know because i
plan on upgrading motherboards soon, and i don't want to
have to buy another copy of xp.
i'm not sure what i can say you can do but maybe you can
somehow downgrade to a lower version of windows. then do
an upgrade install so that windows xp configures itself.
it seems that we both need help with this thing
i have had a similar problem when upgrading motherboards.
i went from a compaq p3 with xp on it and i took out the
hard drive from it and put it in my new system which is
an asus p4s333 with ddr pc2100 512 mb. i can actually get
into windows and everything, but when i start playing
some games, for some reason, they tend to freeze up. i
couldn't figure out the problem until i realized that the
drivers installed for my previous motherboard are
attempting to run on my new one which is laid out
differently and uses different drivers. i had to delete
my windows folder and start from scratch. i installed
windows 95 through a series of floppy disk and when that
installation was done, i upgraded back to my xp. when i
finished though. i couldn't reinstall service packs or
even download them because microsoft thinks i installed
xp onto another computer. i was so angry and couldn't
talk to support because as you know it costs 99 dollars
or even 245 dollars to do so. i had to purchase a brand
new xp this time a home edition and installed it and it
worked perfectly on my computer. no more problems. but as
time goes along, technology improves and i want to
upgrade. The problem seems to lie within what driver is
running the motherboard. if it's the right driver it
seems to work ok. if i want to upgrade to a better
motherboard i'll have to reinstall windows xp so it
configures itself to my new motherboard. This rises a new
question. is it possible to do so without it thinking
that i have pirated it? i would like to know because i
plan on upgrading motherboards soon, and i don't want to
have to buy another copy of xp.
i'm not sure what i can say you can do but maybe you can
somehow downgrade to a lower version of windows. then do
an upgrade install so that windows xp configures itself.
it seems that we both need help with this thing