Re: Code Purple



"mhoits" <mhoits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I recently fried my mother board on my Compaq computer and replaced
> the motherboard with a ASUS motherboard (the compaq had a MSI
> motherboard) the new motherboard recognised all my hardware but when
> I went to boot up win XP, I received a error msg. stating it was a
> code purple, how can I fix this?
>

Welcome to the world of OEM software (as in vendor too cheap to provide
complete retail XP software package)... ;{

There is hope but it may take luck and a bit of work to resolve the problem.

Give these links a read and see if they help any.
http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/WinXP/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/2004-09/34439.html

or

http://www.techimo.com/forum/t50892.html

or

http://www2.geek.com/discus/messages/27/11186.html?1124315013


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