Re: Win XP - motherboard transplant - failure !

Bitstring <veOdneWwar4cIi3ZRVnyvw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, from the wonderful person Derek Baker <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said
Steve Walker wrote:
Gordy wrote:
"Adrian" <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Back in the days of Win98 it was all so easy - and you could
swap a hdd / mothe
rboard without problems - seems that doesn't
work with Win XP...

You need a reinstall really. The xp is set up specifically for
your type of mobo and cpu and in most cases work work with
anything else.
Shouldent take you too long, i managed a reinstall the other
night in 2 hours and that included backing up my data to xbox.

Crikey - a reinstall is a full day's work for me, by the time all the apps are installed, updated, menu's & settings all configured as I like them. Easy to forget all those hundreds of settings & utils which you gradually accumulate - folder options, mouse speed, menu scroll, caching hacks, google search, etc.

Same here. Did a repair install after a mobo change a few weeks ago.

Likewise. I can get it =running= in about an hour, but it takes several days to get it =right= again. Which is why I regard 'reinstall the OS' as really dumb advise, usually issued by help desk operatives who just want to ensure you'll ring back on someone else's shift (and, after all, the horse MAY learn to sing).

A repair install will always (IME) work after a mobo swap. Changing drivers ahead of time may also work (as someone said, only the disk drivers are critical), but probably not if the new board needs some exotic RAID/SATA controller. Either way re-activation will be needed.

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