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XP Home mother board change causes no boot?
Ibought this starter kit months back with a Maxtor hard drive that I partitioned with 98 SE on c: & XP Home on d: which ran great on my old Mother board Chaintech 7VIF4 for many months & updated both OS versions & was very pleased with myself at my success on my 1st build. But now have upgraded/changed my Mother board to another Chaintech 7NJL4 because its better? & Ive a better video card on the way. The same hard drive i hooked up to the new mobo & 98 SE went along very well after some driver updates it boots great! But XP Home just trys to boot,then reboots. i guess the new board was too much of a change for it to allow? maybe? I tried accessing the control consol to try a repair,But it asks for a password. shucks i never created a password so I just dont have one to grant consol access. What can i do? ive my old user # written down & product ID & CD looking for help! |
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XP Home mother board change causes no boot?
To 'fix' things because of the motherboard change you just boot from the XP
CD and do a repair install. That's it. "LES" wrote in message ... Ibought this starter kit months back with a Maxtor hard drive that I partitioned with 98 SE on c: & XP Home on d: which ran great on my old Mother board Chaintech 7VIF4 for many months & updated both OS versions & was very pleased with myself at my success on my 1st build. But now have upgraded/changed my Mother board to another Chaintech 7NJL4 because its better? & Ive a better video card on the way. The same hard drive i hooked up to the new mobo & 98 SE went along very well after some driver updates it boots great! But XP Home just trys to boot,then reboots. i guess the new board was too much of a change for it to allow? maybe? I tried accessing the control consol to try a repair,But it asks for a password. shucks i never created a password so I just dont have one to grant consol access. What can i do? ive my old user # written down & product ID & CD looking for help! |
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XP Home mother board change causes no boot?
Greetings --
Normally, and assuming a retail license (many OEM installations and licenses are not transferable to a new motherboard - check yours _before_ starting), unless the new motherboard is virtually identical (same chipset, same IDE controllers, same BIOS version, etc.) to the one on which the WinXP installation was originally performed, you'll need to perform a repair (a.k.a. in-place upgrade) installation, at the very least: How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/directo...;EN-US;Q315341 As always when undertaking such a significant change, back up any important data before starting. This will also require re-activation, unless you have a Volume Licensed version of WinXP Pro installed. If it's been more than 120 days since you last activated that specific Product Key, you'll most likely be able to activate via the internet without problem. If it's been less, you might have to make a 5 minute phone call. Bruce Chambers -- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - RAH "LES" wrote in message ... Ibought this starter kit months back with a Maxtor hard drive that I partitioned with 98 SE on c: & XP Home on d: which ran great on my old Mother board Chaintech 7VIF4 for many months & updated both OS versions & was very pleased with myself at my success on my 1st build. But now have upgraded/changed my Mother board to another Chaintech 7NJL4 because its better? & Ive a better video card on the way. The same hard drive i hooked up to the new mobo & 98 SE went along very well after some driver updates it boots great! But XP Home just trys to boot,then reboots. i guess the new board was too much of a change for it to allow? maybe? I tried accessing the control consol to try a repair,But it asks for a password. shucks i never created a password so I just dont have one to grant consol access. What can i do? ive my old user # written down & product ID & CD looking for help! |
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