Re: new case and motherboard

The message <Zp6dnYBHk8qqDmfanZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@xxxxxx>
from "Dr.Hal0nf1r£$" <femail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
contains these words:

al wrote:
On Apr 7, 6:32 pm, "nikv" <n...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Current computer - cube case from evesham over a year old, based on
biostar
ideq N1 (manual says ideq 250n but doesnt look correct) has started
not to
boot - cant find a replacement motherboard so I am looking to move
the guts
to a new motherboard and case. (AMD x2 64 am2 4200 +1Gig ram+ 250G
hd dvd
burner+ leadtek 7600GS).
I've ordered a EV casehttp://www.ebuyer.com/product/135497
and motherboard Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H 780G Socket AM2+ onboard
VGAhttp://www.ebuyer.com/product/142347 ( Would like to get a
motherboard with some headroom for further upgrading so this seems a
better bet than a
straight sckt am2 mboard)

I was planning on removing drivers from my xp home - motherboard and
graphics card and transferring the hard drive directly - I really
dont want
to fork out for a new copy of XP but I doubt whether the recovery
disc from
evesham will provide a clean install.

Couple of questions - how successful do you think this strategy will
be

and

how will the radeon hd3200 on board graphics on the new motherboard
compare
with the nvidia 7600Gs

If your very lucky it will bootinto XP then you can update the
drivers, else you need to get a copy of XP and do a fresh install, you
won't damage any hardware booting with the wrong drivers.
Al

I just Googled to check this out: Although it is stated that software
cannot
damage hardware around 3 out of 4 times out of all the links I read; I
personally believe that, based on probable experience it is possible for it
to indeed do so. Also it is sateted that software *can* and does damage
hardware around 1 out of 4 times out of all the links I read: Therefore it
is a risk not worth taking to my mind.

To take this point further; hardware is the physical componentry that does
the job it's made to do in the exact way it's instructed by the software.
Without software it's unable to function even though it's wired up to do
fulfil a certain purpose. OK so a lot of the software tells it how to
interface with other components and the operating system; but some of the
software also instructs it on its internal function and on the way that it
processes data: Now bearing in mind that tiny mosfet transistors; millions
of which go to make up most devices, are so fragile - It only takes a small
reverse current peak or a small overvoltage to break down the gate
insulation layer rendering the individual transistor and therefore its host
device useless - The wrong software telling it to process data in a way
liable to cause such a fault could seemingly indeed ruin a transistor or
more: result= dud chipset or dud GPU or whatever. I stand to be
corrected by
fact not opinion; but that's my viewpoint, seemingly backed by experience.

This is all rather bogus. Transplanting the hard drive to a new MoBo
may work or it might simply bluescreen or hang. The hardware is
perfectly safe. The only time you can get software to burn out a device
is when you misflash the controller bios in a cd writer or hard disk
drive, a special process in its own right not normally present during a
windows boot sequence except as a malicious trojan process.

If you could get the existing system to boot, you could change the
vendor specific driver for the ATA interface to the generic windows one
and then shutdown for the final time before transplanting the drive.
When you next boot, winXP will be trying to use the generic rather than
the specific (probably incorrect) driver and so avoid the resultant hang
which prevents it getting to the point where it can detect the change of
hardware and invoke the hardware driver update wizard.

If this isn't possible, and you're out of luck re the new hardware (ie
it hangs), the only option, aside from a total re-install, is to do a
"Repair Install". For this, you'll need, at the very least, to beg,
borrow or steal a winXP OEM install CD and use the CoA sticker number on
the old case.

Provided you actually have a CoA sticker to re-install with, you can
legitimately use a copy of a winXP OEM install CD, the copyright issue
revolves not around whether the disk is an original pressing, but around
the fact of having a legit product key.

Although the EULA states that an OEM licence can't be transferred to a
new box, I don't believe Microsoft would want to test its validity in
law in an english court, especially at this stage of the game. As long
as you're not using it for more than one active installation, you're not
breaking the copyright protection intended by the EULA.

HTH

--
Regards, John.

Please remove the "ohggcyht" before replying.
The address has been munged to reject Spam-bots.

.