Re: operating system problems

In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt no@xxxxxxxxxxxx (r-man_j) wrote:

just recently i switched out my motherboard, cpu, and ram. for the
most part they are working well but when i went to restore windows xp
it stops at the examining hardware setup screen, i also tried to
reformat it all together but it will not work. the wierdest part is i
have tested all of my hardware on my friends computer and it all works
fine. the only thing untested is the motherboard its the m860 from
pc-chips

XP looks at the system and decides that it isn't the same system it was
originally installed on ... so it *deliberately* craps out. Part of
their "copy protection". ;-{

If you've already gone the route of reinstalling and reformatting, you
have to go one step further and use FDISK or a similar partitioning
program to remove *all* signs of previously installed software,
particularly a previous version of XP, before trying again.

Find any previous partitions on the drive and delete them. If
necessary, even go so far as to repartition the drive, reformat it as a
data-only partition, and *then* delete the new partition.

Crappy M$ bull*** ....

Oh yeah: Then, before installing XP again, remove *all* other hard
drives; and make that single empty drive your MASTER at the end of the
drive cable, if IDE, or better-yet, "drive-select" at the end. Make
your CD installation drive SLAVE or (again) drive-select; only in the
SLAVE position on the secondary cable.
Sounds weird, but ....

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