Albert wrote:
Here a couple months ago my old (7 yr.) Asus motherboard fried and I
haven't figured out how or why.

So I replaced it with;

Board: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Z97-PRO Rev 1.xx
Serial Number: 141134426100449
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
UEFI: American Megatrends Inc. 2012 09/30/2014

I was running Windows 8.1 with all updates when the computer crashed.
I had gone from Windows XP and upgraded to Windows 8 on the original
installation.

When I tried to reinstall Windows XP on the new motherboard I found
out that it was only designed for Windows 7 and up so I had to buy a
Windows 8.1 full version ($126) from Microsoft store. (Because Windows
XP would not install I couldn't use my Windows 8 upgrade.)

Anyway, I've registered for windows 10 and I was just wondering if
anybody here would have any idea as to whether I would have any
problems. I've seen it posted here that Windows 10 will be capable of
a clean install, I'm just curious.

If you upgraded from XP to 8.0 you should have an 8.0 product key.

The MSFT Media Creation Tool (MCT) for Windows 8.1 can create (for free)
installation media on a USB Stick or DVD for clean installing Windows
8.1 on that Ausus Z97 (btdt).

The installer (on the media created by the MCT)
will accept both Windows 8.0 and 8.1 product keys.

The MCT can be obtained he
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...-refresh-media

i.e. it wasn't necessary to attempt to install XP or even attempt to
perform an upgrade from an existing XP o/s.



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...winston
msft mvp consumer apps