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    I have done this before when i did not have the time to do a clean install . A straight swap out of the mother board is ok but when you boot back up it will rejig your drivers for you and ask you to replace some of them or it will just use the windows XP based ones. It was very glitchy afterwards still works ok but something's plays up, similar problem with the repair option but better. You really want to do a clean install but only when you have time to back-up the bits you want, it also lets you get rid of a lot of old crap that hangs around in windows. ( you never seem to get this problem with a MAC). hope this helps

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    If you have the driver CD for the new board install the drivers with the old board in but dont reboot until u've installed them all, then swap boards and power up, XP will do its PNP thing and pick up the new board with the drivers u installed pre swap...

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    a straight swap should be effortless since the chipsets aren't changing

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    Quote Originally Posted by shredisn@tdead
    Yup, just Googled this one, and looks like a Repair Install will do the trick.

    However, might have problems with XP activation... it is (or was!) a Dell PC, and not sure if Dell's require all that activation malarkey or if it's got a Corporate type install.
    Are there in lies your problem. You'll probably find it's been installed with an OEM version of XP, thus designed to work with the Hardware it was installed on. Re-activation will be required and mircosoft may refuse to do it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by directhex
    a straight swap should be effortless since the chipsets aren't changing
    i've done this from a VIA 133 chipset to a DDR VIA kt266 chipset without a problem - as they probably use the same drivers anyway it didn't seem to have any problems. just needed to re-activate it with windows. (it was windows professional though).

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    well when i update my mobo is there a chance there will be any data loss on HDD or is it just the windows activation BS i have to worry about...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jiff Lemon
    Are there in lies your problem. You'll probably find it's been installed with an OEM version of XP, thus designed to work with the Hardware it was installed on. Re-activation will be required and mircosoft may refuse to do it.
    Bonkers! It's because of the damn OEM Hardware that I'm going through this - it'll still be the same XP on effectively the same PC (although seems MS disagrees). Sounds like I'll end up having to reinstall from scratch. Will find out tonight/tomorrow.

    What happens when u boot if Re-activation is indeed required? Does it just give u a dialog window to enter your newly purchased key - which you can't get past and so cannot use XP/PC until you enter it?

    Spent last night copying about 60Gb of files to another PC. Only another 30Gb to go - 120Gb disk - the rest can be trashed if need be. Jeez - think of all the DVDs I'd need to back that up PLUS my other 250Gb disk! Anyone else ever get the feeling that backup technology isn't keeping up?!

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    it will inform you that you have 3 days i order to re-activate. you can either do activation online (which only works for the first 5 times a system is activated), phone a freephone number to recieve an activation key, or change to a new key. phone activation takes a while (45 numbers dialed via keypad, which tends top fail, then doing it via spoken word). that said, the operator on the line usually only listens to the first few characters of the key before giving you an unlock code. i've activated xp pro, xp pro sp1, and server 2003 standard multiple times with no problems.

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    wrong info, sorry
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    MS sysdiff?

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    Sysdiff is for deploying non-windows software in your base installation, sorry.
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    You could use Sysprep which is the one I was actually thinking of before, you can get it in the resource kit. Running in factory mode will put your pc back into a state which is like a factory delivered pc and drivers can be changed there in the first run.
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    It's never easy, is it? Spent 4 to 5 hours last night poncing about with the machine.

    Installed mobo, RAM, CPU, HSF in case. The Dell has 2 HDDs, 2 optical drives & a floppy - only bothered to install the main boot HD & the DVD-ROM.

    Booted up ... BSOD before it got into XP. Whipped out the XP CD and did a Repair Install. Surprisingly it just asked for the CD key. HOWEVER it took nearly 2 hours to do the install...

    Now booted into XP and ITS SLOW AS HELL, so slow its unusable 'cos it's so unresponsive, e.g. takes a minute to open Control Panel. In fact I set the FSB down from 133 to 100 (so CPU now a 2300) but still same story.

    So I'm trying to narrow the possibilities:
    • surely has nothing to do with the fact there's no floppy, even though BIOS moans
    • maybe it's unhappy about not having the other HD & DVD writer in the other IDE channels? doubtful
    • thermal throttling? but the temps look fine; not sure how hot the NB is though - don't have a probe.
    • or the XP install is now shafted with old drivers hanging about & getting loaded? Sounds most likely and quite possible, no?


    I think I'm going to shove in the floppy and boot off my Partition Magic disks to try and create a small primary partition on the HD. Will then do a fresh XP install there and see if that boots OK.

    If it does then I'll backup anything I've forgotten about and format the whole disk and start again.

    If it doesn't, then sh*t, I'm stuffed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by directhex
    it will inform you that you have 3 days i order to re-activate. you can either do activation online (which only works for the first 5 times a system is activated), phone a freephone number to recieve an activation key, or change to a new key. phone activation takes a while (45 numbers dialed via keypad, which tends top fail, then doing it via spoken word). that said, the operator on the line usually only listens to the first few characters of the key before giving you an unlock code. i've activated xp pro, xp pro sp1, and server 2003 standard multiple times with no problems.
    i take it thats a OEM copys you are talking about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shredisn@tdead
    It's never easy, is it? Spent 4 to 5 hours last night poncing about with the machine.

    Installed mobo, RAM, CPU, HSF in case. The Dell has 2 HDDs, 2 optical drives & a floppy - only bothered to install the main boot HD & the DVD-ROM.

    Booted up ... BSOD before it got into XP. Whipped out the XP CD and did a Repair Install. Surprisingly it just asked for the CD key. HOWEVER it took nearly 2 hours to do the install...

    Now booted into XP and ITS SLOW AS HELL, so slow its unusable 'cos it's so unresponsive, e.g. takes a minute to open Control Panel. In fact I set the FSB down from 133 to 100 (so CPU now a 2300) but still same story.

    So I'm trying to narrow the possibilities:
    • surely has nothing to do with the fact there's no floppy, even though BIOS moans
    • maybe it's unhappy about not having the other HD & DVD writer in the other IDE channels? doubtful
    • thermal throttling? but the temps look fine; not sure how hot the NB is though - don't have a probe.
    • or the XP install is now shafted with old drivers hanging about & getting loaded? Sounds most likely and quite possible, no?


    I think I'm going to shove in the floppy and boot off my Partition Magic disks to try and create a small primary partition on the HD. Will then do a fresh XP install there and see if that boots OK.

    If it does then I'll backup anything I've forgotten about and format the whole disk and start again.

    If it doesn't, then sh*t, I'm stuffed.
    That is a lot of kit and no its never easy when it comes to microsoft your best bet is a clean install even if you have to log back in for your key and yes it will be ok the only time windows ask me to log in for Re-activation after doing what you have done was when i put in a new CPU about 3/4 weeks after. Very Good Case that ANTEC 3700 put an extra fan on the front help cool all them drives.

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